Senior Fire Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Fire Engineer, you will help shape safe, compliant design solutions across global architectural and engineering projects. In the Fire Safety Team, you apply evidence-based fire engineering to guide risk-based decision-making and support technical reviews. You will develop fire safety design options and ensure alignment with industry-leading standards throughout project lifecycles. This role offers the chance to influence complex projects, collaborate across disciplines, and support team growth. You will work on meaningful challenges with global impact, leveraging advanced fire engineering approaches to improve safety outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• private medical insurance for you and your family
• life assurance
• personal travel insurance
• virtual GP services
• mental health support
• lifestyle coaching

Responsibilities

• Drive proactive, holistic, and risk-based fire safety across complex design projects
• Provide fire engineering advice to architectural and engineering teams throughout the project lifecycle
• Review fire strategies, reports and design documentation from internal and external contributors
• Develop and communicate fire safety design options and identify project constraints and opportunities
• Support the growth, visibility and technical development of the Fire Safety Team

Key requirements

• Chartered (or working toward Chartered) Engineer status with strong fire engineering experience
• Proven capability in qualitative/quantitative risk assessment, deterministic analysis and related safety methods
• Strong understanding of international codes, regulations and guidance frameworks
• Degree in a relevant engineering, architectural or technical discipline
• Experience interpreting design information and producing clear fire safety documentation
• Proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Desirable: experience with advanced modelling methods such as CFD, FEA or probabilistic analysis

• strong communication
• stakeholder collaboration
• analytical mindset
• qualitative/quantitative risk assessment
• deterministic analysis
• international codes, regulations and guidance

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