Senior Fire Engineer

Lead a varied portfolio of fire engineering projects, build trusted client relationships, review technical work, and support the development of emerging engineers.

An experienced fire engineer with a track record of leading complex projects from concept through to completion, strong client-facing skills, and an interest in developing others.

A stake in a 100% employee-owned business, a varied and technically challenging project portfolio, and genuine flexibility in how and where you work.

Essential Skills and Experience

Qualifications, memberships and registration

Essential:

• Engineering or science-based Bachelor’s degree.
• Member Grade of the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE).
• Professional registration with the Engineering Council through the IFE (or with another relevant Professional Engineering Institution) as an Incorporated Engineer or Chartered Engineer, or similar registration in another discipline consistent with a IEng or CEng.

Desirable:

• Engineering Council accredited Bachelor’s degree with honours in engineering.
• Engineering Council accredited or approved Master’s degree or approved further learning to Master’s level.

Skills and experience

Essential:

• Approximately 5 years’ experience in either (1) the fire safety engineering field, or (2) an alternative engineering discipline along with relevant fire safety experience e.g. building services engineering or structural engineering.
• Share in our vision to ensure that people can live, work and sleep safe from the effects of fire.
• Enthusiasm to become part of an Employee-Owned Company.
• Project management, budget control and reporting experience.
• Team management experience.
• Experience of client management and managing client expectations.

As a Senior Engineer (Grade
5) you will primarily be responsible for the technical delivery, the financial and project management of a variety of fire engineering design schemes.

You will develop fee proposal and scope of service documents and look to establish, build and maintain client relationships. You will be required to attend site visits; client / project team meetings and engage with enforcing authorities.

You will review technical documents and simple fee proposals as part of Tenos’ Quality Assurance procedures. You will adhere to, uphold and train other engineers in the Quality Management System.

Our development programme will help advance your core technical knowledge and consultancy skills to support your application to become professionally registered with the Engineering Council.

Technical

• Independent application of detailed technical knowledge on a broad range of fire safety design projects.
• Attend as an individual or accompany more junior colleagues on site visits and client / project team meetings.
• Put forward solutions based on codes, standards, technical evidence and previous work / case studies.
• Lead Project Kick Off and Close Out meetings.
• Undertake self-analysis of technical development needs and actively seek out support to address knowledge shortfall.
• Maintain continued professional development (CPD) records.
• Take the lead, manage resources, present and report on new and existing Tenos research and development projects.
• Contribute to technical discussions in Tenos forums e.g. Technical Committee, Project Breakfast Review, CPD events.
• Undertakes reviews of Graduate Engineer, Engineer and Senior Engineer (Grade
  4) technical deliverables and fee proposals.

Commercial

• Project delivery, project team and financial management of complex fire engineering design schemes.
• Assist more junior engineers to develop detailed fee…