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We are looking for a Graduate Fire Engineer to join our Fire Engineering team in London, Bath or Edinburgh. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities alike. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.
What is FireEngineering?
Every building presents unique fire safety challenges. To fully address life safety and design aspirations, your scheme needs a unique, holistic, creative approach to developing a simple, yet robust, fire safety solution.
Our involvement on projects spans from concept to completion, and further, to occupation and continued operational management. Our clients find this level of continued engagement reassuring as we guide them through the life cycle of the building.
For multiple building portfolio clients such as The National Museums of Scotland and University College London, we provide a complete consultancy service. This includes assessing the capabilities of their existing assets, developing solutions for refurbishment projects and advising on the design of new buildings whilst interfacing with multiple design teams and helping the client with their ongoing building management.
We listen and consult to fully understand the design aspirations for a development, and we facilitate these through imaginative and innovative fire engineering techniques, often working beyond the boundaries of prescriptive code guidance.
To learn more about our Fire discipline please read additional information.
What sort of projects would I work on?
* 5 Broadgate – approximately 100,000 m², one of the largest and most robust single office buildings in London’s financial district, recognised for its sustainability approach and consideration of embodied carbon.
* Battersea Power Station – repurposing this historic landmark into a 21st‑century destination, requiring highly creative approaches to reward the client and create an iconic facility.
* Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Stadium – replacing White Hart Lane with a world‑class UEFA/FIFA‑compliant arena, providing multidisciplinary services from concept through to completion.
* Co‑Op Live – Manchester’s new arena with the largest maximum capacity of any indoor music venue in the UK, designed for safety and flexible layout.
* Everton FC – Bramley‑Moore Dock stadium – a landmark new stadium welcoming supporters to be entertained in comfort and safety.
What would I do?
* Develop expertise in delivering fire safety engineering solutions in a multi‑disciplinary environment with solid experience in developing fire strategies, undertaking engineering analysis and applying performance‑based designs.
* Work with other members of the team to understand and apply fire safety legislation and design guidance in the UK and internationally as part of global project delivery.
* Carry out and review fire engineering calculations including smoke modelling and evacuation analysis from simple hand calculations to complex 3D computational modelling.
* Build knowledge to identify appropriate fixed fire protection systems, such as automatic fire detection and/or suppression to support fire engineering design solutions.
* Communicate and present technical solutions to a variety of clients and stakeholders.
* Ensure team members are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions.
* Liaise with approval authorities on fire safety designs.
* Demonstrate excellent consultancy skills; good communication and experience in dealing with difficult situations, negotiation and understanding the differing needs of our clients and within stakeholder groups.
* Visit sites to see how our fire strategies are implemented.
What degree would I need?
For our specialist Fire discipline, a Masters in Fire Engineering is required. Alternatively, a Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering provides relevant foundation knowledge.
Graduates at Buro Happold
When you join Buro Happold you are embedded into an exciting network of engineers and consultants that supports your career development. We have a Graduate Connect learning programme that targets specific learning and supports your journey to chartership as well as our Young Employee’s Forum that links all our young talent in terms of knowledge sharing, learning and very importantly socialising.
Application Process
Please submit your CV and Supporting Statement (Cover Letter). We typically complete shortlisting after the role has closed. Therefore, you can expect to hear from us with 2–4 weeks of the job closing on our website. Should you wish to contact us to find out more information or to get an update, please contact earlycareers@burohappold.com.
For the application questions, please note that you are welcome to use another document to help draft your answers and copy them back into the text area once you are ready. We believe in ensuring all our processes are equitable and that we help everyone access the opportunities we have to offer. To ensure that we do not disadvantage anyone during the application process we ask that all responses in application forms should be completed without the assistance of generative AI, not everyone has equal access to AI tools and we’d love to hear from you in your own words as we get to know you through the process.
Please note that this role is for an Autumn 2026 start.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers. Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions. Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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