Senior Fire Engineer

Description

The team is the fire engineering group of an infrastructure consultancy with more than 50,000 staff, working on transport, buildings, water, new energy and environmental projects.

The company is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business reported $16.1 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2025.

This is a senior consultant role in a client-facing, well-established fire safety practice.

The role suits an experienced consultant who wants to move up, or an engineer who wants to build their knowledge and design skills.

Responsibilities

• Take fire engineering 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 other engineers' work.
• Develop new methods for unfamiliar problems by adapting standard procedures and methods from earlier projects.
• Take part in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.
• Lead the preparation of accurate cost estimates for technical work on projects.
• Work with office leads to oversee and develop a local team, giving guidance and mentoring with support from senior staff.

Requirements

• Minimum: a relevant degree or professional qualification.
• Minimum: experience in a similar consultancy or other relevant business.
• Minimum: proven experience across a range of sectors and fire engineering applications, with a strong focus on UK regulations and markets.
• Minimum: experience managing the fire engineering side of small to medium design projects within agreed timescales and budgets.
• Minimum: experience guiding entry level fire engineers.
• Minimum: experience preparing fee proposals and task variations for fire engineering work.
• Preferred: a BSc, BEng, MSc or MEng in Fire Engineering or a similar subject.
• Preferred: professional membership of the Institution of Fire Engineers or the Engineering Council, with progress towards Chartership.
• Preferred: experience leading and actively supervising junior engineers on both people and projects.
• Preferred: a clear work history and evidence of ongoing professional development and learning.

Conditions

Hybrid working, with time spent in an office, remotely or at client sites.

All new hires must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an office as a condition of employment.

The company is a Disability Confident Employer and will interview applicants with a disability or long-term condition who meet the essential criteria.

Applicant information is handled confidentially under equal opportunity guidelines.

Benefits

• Core and personalised benefits to support your future and wellbeing, tailored to your lifestyle.
• Career development opportunities.
• Technical practice networks.
• Access to the company's in-house learning programme.
• Volunteering days.
• Flexible hybrid working to help you balance work and life.