Graduate Fire Safety Engineer; North West

Graduate Fire Safety Engineer (North West)

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Launch Your Career with Our 2026 Graduate Programme! Are you brimming with ambition and ready to make your mark in the professional world? Look no further! Our UK Graduate Programme is designed to catapult you into a thriving career, offering unparalleled opportunities for growth, learning, and success. Join Amentum in September 2026 and help us create a secure and vibrant future.

As a Graduate Fire Safety Engineer you will be working with our Fire Safety Engineering team, part of the Energy division. You will provide support to deliver challenging and engaging Nuclear, Defence and buildings projects. You will assist in the production of building fire strategies, fire and explosion assessments and the design of fire and explosion protection systems and arrangements.

You will be part of a diverse, multi‑discipline energy team allowing you to both share your ideas whilst you learn and develop your career. Bring your creativity, ambitious spirit and extreme attention to detail, and we’ll help you pursue and fulfil what drives you – so we can deliver extraordinary solutions for a better tomorrow, together.

• Exciting Projects: Work with a diverse team of experts from across the UK and beyond to gain insights into our markets and clients.
• Comprehensive Training: Benefit from a structured development programme that covers everything from discipline‑specific skills and professional registration to personal development.
• Mentorship: Receive guidance from seasoned professionals who are dedicated to helping you achieve your career goals.
• Career Progression: When you reach the end of the programme, it’s just the beginning! You’ll be supported to continue to develop your experience and capabilities to help progress your career and achieve professional registration.
• Supportive Community: Our hub‑based model is focused in key locations, ensuring that you’ll be part of a supportive early careers community with plenty of networking and experiential learning opportunities.

• Have completed an undergraduate or master’s degree (e.g. Fire Safety Engineering or STEM degree) level qualification in a relevant subject by summer 2026.

• Technical document authoring experience (e.g. dissertation).
• Ability to work effectively within a team but also independently.
• Excellent organisation and time management, the ability to juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Eager to take ownership, ask questions, and seek out opportunities to grow.

• Experience in design engineering of suppression, alarm, and detection systems, primarily for building facilities as part of either prior work or an internship.
• Exposure to building code and life safety code analysis as part of either prior work or an internship.
• University level experience with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) (FDS) modelling and analysis.

• A flexible self‑starter, who is keen to drive their career forward.
• Adaptable to change, with a thirst for learning new things.
• Have the permanent right to work in the UK.

Our Graduate Programme assumes that participants are commencing their first professional role post‑graduation. To qualify for our Graduate Programme, you must therefore have:

• Completed your first degree no earlier than the summer of 2024.
• Not worked in a similar professional role since graduation.
• Achieved a minimum 2:2 in your first degree.

We will close the application window for this role on Friday 2nd January 2026, however we reserve the right to close the role sooner should we receive the required number of applications.

• A flexible work‑style, embracing a hybrid working pattern and supporting those who need to balance work/life…