Fire Engineer

Description

The company is a global infrastructure consultancy. It provides services from advisory and planning through design, engineering and construction management, across transport, buildings, water, new energy and the environment.

Its Professional Services business reported $16.1 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2025, and the wider company employs over 50,000 people.

This is a fire engineer role for someone with proven experience across several sectors and in technical fire engineering work for clients. You will work with office leads to oversee and build a local team, with guidance from senior staff.

It suits an established consultant who wants to move their career forward, or someone keen to widen their knowledge and design skills.

Responsibilities

• Take work from start to finish with little senior oversight, using CFD modelling, evacuation modelling and other analytical fire engineering methods.
• Manage design projects, and prepare and check other people's work.
• Work across a range of sectors and fire engineering applications, with a main focus on UK regulation and markets.
• Adapt standard procedures and methods from earlier assignments to solve new problems.
• Take part in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.
• Help prepare accurate cost estimates for technical work on projects.

Requirements

• Hold a relevant degree or professional qualification.
• Have worked in a similar consultancy or another relevant business.
• Show demonstrable experience across a range of sectors and fire engineering applications, particularly with UK regulations and markets.
• Have managed the fire engineering side of small to medium design projects within agreed timescales and budgets.
• Have guided entry level fire engineers.
• Have prepared fee proposals and task variations for fire engineering work.

Conditions

Hybrid working: you can work from an office, remotely or at a client site.

All newly hired staff must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at a company office as a condition of employment.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Disability Confident employer, and it interviews disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

Benefits

• Core and personalised benefits that support your future and well-being, tailored to your lifestyle.
• Career development opportunities.
• Flexible hybrid working to support a healthy work-life balance.
• Access to technical practice networks and the company's own university.
• Volunteering days.