Structural Fire Engineering Lead

Description

• Inspire, motivate, and support the professional development and well-being of team members by prioritising their growth and fostering an inclusive work environment.
• As a key member of the UK Fire Engineering senior leadership team, you will contribute to the overall success of the team, across strategy, service, propositions, and people.
• Drive market awareness, sales pipeline, and business development activities for Structural Fire Engineering propositions and capabilities.
• Informing and supporting design aspirations, functionality and architectural form.
• Representing Buro Happold at design team meetings, both internally and externally.
• Working with structural engineers on exciting and complex buildings to ensure life safety and optimise protection.
• Take a lead role in project delivery for our most complex engagements, ensuring successful outcomes, client satisfaction and an ongoing client relationship.

Requirements

• Experience designing for structural fire protection for buildings in the following sectors:
• Experience in leading structural fire engineering teams in an engineering consultancy environment.
• Experience in using and checking of structural fire engineering FEM packages like SAFIR, VULCAN or similar.
• Excellent consultancy skills, good communication abilities and the experience to deal with complex situations, negotiation and understanding the differing needs of our clients and within stakeholder groups.
• Experience in managing structural fire engineering projects.
• Being a chartered engineer or being close to achieving it.
• Experience in designing and assessing current and historic structures at ambient temperatures and in fire.
• Experience in undertaking and supervising fire and heat transfer assessments followed by structural modelling at elevated temperatures.
• Confident, proactive character, able to take the lead in challenging situations and guide less experienced engineers.
• Own the “Technical” competence and capability development for the team embedding technical skills within the Structural Fire Engineering team.
• Experience in writing and reviewing performance-based engineering reports.
• Masters degree or higher in Structural Engineering or Structural Fire Engineering.
• Experience in international markets

Benefits

• Sports Stadia and Arenas

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance