Principal Fire Engineer

Description

• Cultivating, understanding, and maintaining a trusted internal network across the organisation.
• Where applicable, assisting the Director of Safety and Compliance.
• Undertaking Reviews, and peer review of External Walls to PAS 9980 guidance.
• Generating fire safety strategy reports for projects for new and existing buildings.
• Attending and supporting project meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders – assisting in providing fire safety guidance and providing recommendations.
• Reviewing design information, including drawings, stage reports and specifications, and providing fire safety related comments and advice. Preparing and issuing technical reports and guidance notes related to fire safety issues which may impact on our projects or the services we provide our clients.
• Managing project records using the Deltek project management system, including management of agreed fees and forecasting of fee income for own projects.
• Carrying out and assisting research into the fire safety implications of new technologies, materials, approaches, and changing regulation. Providing support and guidance in relation to the completed research.
• Managing your own workload, tasks, and time to meet agreed deadlines.
• Carrying out and assisting qualitative and/or quantitative risk assessments and presenting to stakeholders, to enable informed decision-making.
• Assisting in the updating and maintaining of internal best practice guidance and documentation. Assisting in the generating of proposals, as required, for design or research services.
• Preparing general technical guidance notes in relation Fire Safety to support other members of the group in providing code compliant designs. Presenting at Group Knowledge Café’s or CPD sessions.

Requirements

• Worked with and experience of regulatory and guidance frameworks including Building Regulations, The Fire Safety Act, Building Safety Act, BS 9991 and 9999 etc.
• Experience with BIM, AutoCAD or similar to carry out design and design reviews.
• Desire to work towards Chartered or Incorporated Engineer registration of the Engineering Council with the IFE
• Relevant Degree/Master’s Degree in construction or engineering such as Surveying, Fire Safety Engineering etc.
• Significant years’ experience in fire engineering, or related discipline role. With desirable experience in fire engineering or façade fire engineering.
• CFD-based modelling, quantitative probalitics/reliability analysis. Experience with the use of FDS, or similar, to carry out data analysis, automation, and/or model development
• Professional Membership with the RICS, CABE or IFE/IFSM

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance