The Role
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Fire Engineer to join the specialist Fire group in our Bristol or Birmingham office, to work on the design of some of the most exciting construction design projects in the UK and worldwide.
Working across a variety of sectors such as Education, Commercial, Healthcare, Retail and Critical Systems, infrastructure you will carry out detailed fire engineering design and develop fire strategies, fire hazard identification and fire risk assessment, smoke control design and code compliance review. Knowledge of fire suppression and fire alarm system will be beneficial.
You will have the opportunity over time to assume greater levels of responsibility and autonomy as your professional skills develop, and will be supported towards Chartership.
The successful candidate will be supported by dedicated senior members of our team.
The Skills
Educated to degree level in Fire Engineering or in a related discipline, you have gained relevant experience in Fire Engineering design within a building services context (i.e. smoke control calculations, CFAST zone modelling, designing of sprinkler system etc), and have proven your technical understanding in relevant design software. Experience in using Technical Handbooks is desirable.
You have a real interest in Fire Engineering and analysis for the built environment, and crucially - have a passion for creative and intuitive design. You have a proven ability to work effectively as part of a team, are able to manage your own time to meet deadlines and you have an appreciation of the commercial factors which affect design solutions.
Given the collaborative and client focussed nature of this role, excellent communication skills and experience of using your initiative to overcome challenges are essential.