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Amentum will inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
About the Opportunity:
Amentum is currently recruiting for Senior Fire Safety Engineer to join our Energy business.
The department is entering an exciting phase of opportunity by supporting our key client’s UK nuclear fleet through a business transformation, and by supporting new small modular reactor developers. Our work is varied, covering New Build, Generation, Life Extension, and Defueling, and our capabilities are in demand across the nuclear sector.
This role will be based at one of our Energy offices (Newcastle, Warrington, Gloucester, Bristol or Knutsford). We put flexibility at the heart of what we do and we’re happy to consider flexible working patterns.
Key Responsibilities:
* Development of fire safety strategies to support compliance with the Building Regulations and relevant fire safety legislation. This includes the development of design solutions encompassing provisions for means and escape, detection and alarm, structural fire protection, suppression, and firefighting access/facilities for the fire and rescue service in accordance with recognised prescriptive good practice and/or fire engineering principles
* Undertaking conventional fire assessments / fire risk assessments to support compliance with fire safety legislation and/or the development of fire safety strategies, and to support ALARP demonstrations where non-compliances exist
* Undertaking fire modelling with the use of empirical hand calculations and software packages such as CFAST and/or Computational Fluid Dynamics in support of fire safety strategies
* Development of the fire strategy fire safety management arrangements and procedures to support operational management arrangements
* Provision of technical support to architects on building layouts and system designers with the selection and performance setting of fire protection systems and arrangements
* Provision of fire safety support to the various projects / programmes with ad-hoc technical queries
* Provision of fire safety support to technical design reviews and providing the required inputs to the main project technical review gates
* Provision of support to Nuclear fire safety assessments and the development of nuclear fire safety cases to support a range of industries
Education, Experience and Skills:
* STEM degree qualified (Desirable not essential)
* Membership with a recognised institution (Institution of fire engineers – Desirable not essential)
* Fire safety engineering experience, ideally covering most of the key responsibilities listed above
* Experience of application and use of relevant prescriptive codes (e.g. ADB, BS 9999 etc)
* Experience of undertaking fire modelling in support of the provision of performance based fire safety engineered solutions (Desirable not essential)
Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, ancestry, United States military or veteran status, color, religion, creed, marital or domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, citizenship status, low-income status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal laws and supplemental language at Labor Laws Posters.
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