Senior Fire Engineer

Description

The company is an infrastructure consulting firm with over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers and other professionals, and reported $16.1 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2025.

The team is hiring a Senior Engineer for its fire group. The role is client-facing and calls for proven experience across several sectors and in technical fire engineering work.

You will work with office leads to run and grow a local team, guiding and mentoring people with help from senior staff. You need solid professional experience and readiness to take on more.

The role suits an established consultant who wants to move their career forward, or an engineer who wants to build their knowledge and design skills at a well-known fire safety consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Take projects 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 people's work.
• Apply your experience across a range of sectors and technical fire engineering tasks, with a focus on UK regulations and markets.
• Adapt standard procedures and methods from earlier assignments to find solutions to new problems.
• Take part in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.
• Lead the preparation of accurate cost estimates for technical work on projects.

Requirements

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

Conditions

Hybrid working is available, with work from an the company office, a remote location or a client site.

All newly hired employees must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an the company 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 minimum criteria for the role.

Applicant information is handled confidentially in line with equal opportunities guidelines.

Benefits

• Core and personalised benefits designed to support your future, well-being and lifestyle.
• Career development opportunities.
• Flexible hybrid working.
• Technical practice networks.
• Access to the company University.
• Volunteering days.
• Access to industry-leading technology and thinking, and work with large impact as part of a global, publicly traded firm.