Principal Fire Engineer

Our client, one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies is looking to appoint a Principal Fire Engineer to join their team across the UK, preferred locations: Bristol, Epsom, London or Derby.  

This opportunity will involve working as part of a national practice of Design professionals delivering fire engineering design solutions to clients across a wide variety of sectors; including Cities & Development, Commercial, Energy, Residential and Transportation.  

Responsibilities:  

- Work in a range of sectors from residential buildings through to rail transportation or new energy facilities.  

- Manage multiple engineering projects from inception through to delivery in support of fire safety standards and codes.  

- Support the delivery of project work within time and cost budgets.  

- Keep up to date with regulations and legislation.  

- Developing fire engineering solutions on projects and ensuring the fire engineering strategy is delivered.  

- Assess fire related risks in projects and working collaboratively to mitigate where possible.  

- Review and comment on the quality of fire safety related installations.  

- Undertake tenders for new work.  

- Prepare and review reports, lead fire engineering workshops.  

- Develop client relationships with existing clients.

- Engineering degree, preferably fire engineering or alternatively a post graduate qualification in fire engineering. Chemical Engineering and Mechanical engineering accepted as well.  

- Experience in Fire Engineering.  

- Associate membership of the IFE working towards full membership.  

- Working towards Chartership.  

- Demonstrate a strong record of successfully delivering fire safety projects.  

- Experience delivering (as originator and checker) on four of: ADB, BS9999, BS9991, BS9992, DIFs, MOJ and BB100 jobs.  

- Mentor for juniors e.g. Grads and Fire Engineers.  

- Good commercial awareness.  

- Ability to collate information and have a clear and structured approach to report writing.