Senior Fire Safety Engineer
Inside IR35 (competitive rate)
8 hours a day
2 days office 3 days from home
Possible travel to Birchwood/Knutsford/Gloucester/Newcastle/Glasgow (expenses covered)
Based in Birchwood (Warrington) office
Job Role -
* De Development of fire safety strategies to support compliance with the Building Regulations and relevant fire safety legislation and undertaking of conventional fire assessments
* 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 (minimum of 3 years experience for this role)
* 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)