Associate Fire Engineer
Join our fire engineering team on a hybrid role based in London, Leeds, Manchester, Bath, or Edinburgh. We work across the UK, Dubai, and Riyadh, delivering global fire engineering expertise to projects worldwide.
Key Duties
* Lead fire engineering projects, supporting design aspirations, functionality and architecture throughout development.
* Provide client care and consultancy on projects.
* Manage the financial performance of projects, including invoicing and monitoring.
* Represent Buro Happold Fire Engineering at design team meetings, both internal and external.
* Identify and specify appropriate fixed fire protection systems, including detection and suppression.
* Carry out and review fire engineering calculations – smoke modelling and evacuation analysis from hand calculations to 3‑D CFD (previous CFD experience welcome but not essential).
* Support development of junior team members, as mentor or line manager.
Qualifications
* Experience leading fire engineering on major projects.
* Higher education qualification in engineering or a fire safety related subject.
* Demonstrable experience delivering fire and life safety designs for UK projects.
* Track record of obtaining agreement for prescriptive and performance‑based solutions from approving authorities.
* Strong people‑management skills; experience in a line‑management context.
* Excellent commercial and project‑management skills.
Benefits
* Hybrid work arrangements.
* Competitive salary and benefits, including life assurance and income protection.
* 25 days holiday with flexible arrangements and birthday off.
* Generous pension scheme and flexible benefits such as cycle, dental, optical, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
* Enhanced parental leave policies.
* 3 pm finish on the last Friday of each month.
* Commitment to continuous development and support for professional memberships.
* Wellbeing programme and supportive inclusive environment.
* International culture with opportunities across our global practice.
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