Graduate Fire Engineer

Description

• Managing your own workload, tasks, and time to meet agreed deadlines.
• Reviewing design information, including drawings, stage reports and specifications, and providing fire safety related comments and advice. Assisting with the preparation of technical reports and guidance notes related to fire safety issues which may impact on our projects or the services we provide our clients.
• Generating fire safety strategy reports for projects for new and existing buildings.
• 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.
• Assisting with research into the fire safety implications of new technologies, materials, approaches, and changing regulation. Providing support and guidance in relation to the completed research.
• Assisting with the preparation of External Walls Appraisals to PAS 9980 guidance. Including attendance on site to witness opening up works and drafting reports.
• Attending and supporting senior engineers at project meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders – assisting in providing fire safety guidance and providing recommendations.
• Carrying out and assisting qualitative and/or quantitative fire risk assessments and presenting to stakeholders, to enable informed decision-making.

Requirements

• Ambitious and driven to develop further skills and knowledge with the aim to becoming a chartered or incorporated engineer registered through the Engineering Council and registration with the Institution of Fire Engineers.
• Professional Membership with the RICS, CABE or IFE/IFSM at student or affiliate level.
• Experience with BIM, Auto Cad or similar to carry out design and design reviews.
• Good interpersonal skills, proven ability to interact with and adapt to a diverse range of people, and the ability to work well in a team.
• Ability to apply rigorous and appropriate engineering approaches to safety. For example, qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, probabilistic and deterministic analysis.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in fire engineering or related discipline role (may include industry placement). Desirable Experience of fire safety engineering, façade fire engineering or surveying.
• Knowledge of a range of regulatory and guidance frameworks including Building Regulations, Fire Safety Act, Building Safety Act, BS 9991 and 9999 and other guidance.
• Degree in construction or engineering such as Surveying, Fire Safety Engineering etc, Civil or Structural Engineering.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance