Senior Fire Engineer

Description

The company is a Fortune 500 infrastructure consultancy and a publicly traded firm. Its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025.

The company works across transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, from advisory and planning through to design, engineering, program and construction management.

It has a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists and other professionals.

You will join the Fire Team as a Senior Engineer in a client-focused consultancy role that calls for proven experience across several sectors and technical fire engineering work.

You will work with office leads to oversee and grow a local team, guiding and mentoring people with support from senior staff. You should already have solid professional experience and be ready to keep growing.

The role suits an established consultant who wants to move up, or someone keen to build their knowledge and design skills at a well-established, respected fire safety consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Take work from start to finish with little senior oversight, including CFD modelling, evacuation modelling and other analytical fire engineering.
• Manage design projects, and prepare and review the work of others.
• Apply fire engineering across different sectors, with particular attention to UK rules and the UK market.
• Adapt standard procedures or methods from earlier assignments to build new approaches for unfamiliar problems.
• Take part in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.
• Lead the preparation of accurate cost estimates for the technical work on projects.

Requirements

• Minimum: hold a relevant degree or professional qualification.
• Minimum: have worked in a similar consultancy or another relevant business.
• Minimum: have a track record across several sectors and in technical fire engineering, especially under UK regulations and in the UK market.
• Minimum: have managed the fire engineering side of small to medium design projects, meeting agreed deadlines and budgets.
• Minimum: have guided entry level fire engineers.
• Minimum: have prepared fee proposals and task variations for fire engineering work.
• Preferred: a BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in Fire Engineering or a similar subject.
• Preferred: professional membership of the Institution of Fire Engineers or the Engineering Council, and progress along the route to Chartership.
• Preferred: experience leading and closely supervising a team of more junior engineers, on both people and projects.
• Preferred: a clear work history and proof of ongoing professional development and learning.

Conditions

You can work from an office, remotely or at a client site, under a flexible hybrid model.

The company is an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, and it will interview disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

Every new hire must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an office location as a condition of employment.

Benefits

• Core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, tailored to your lifestyle.
• Career development opportunities.
• Technical practice networks and the company's own university.
• Volunteering days.
• Access to industry-leading technology and thinking, and transformational work with big impact.