Graduate Fire Engineer

About Us

Hoare Lea is a human-centric and planet-conscious engineering consultancy. We offer intelligent and sustainable solutions to complex design challenges for the built environment throughout the UK and further afield.

Hoare Lea is a human-centric and planet-conscious engineering consultancy. We offer intelligent and sustainable solutions to complex design challenges for the built environment throughout the UK and further afield. We provide a wide range of engineering and consultancy services, including acoustics, air quality, building services (MEP), fire, lighting, security and sustainability to name but a few. Together, our highly skilled teams use technical expertise and problem‑solving skills to bring buildings to life.

We ensure that whatever the building, its design is outstanding, and its operations meet the needs of the communities it serves. Whatever your ambitions or circumstances, our aim is to enable everyone to develop their knowledge, give their best, and enjoy what they do.

• You’ll collaborate with the industry’s best, working with a wide range of built-environment specialists.
• You’ll be part of progressive and exciting projects from day one, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors.
• You’ll advance your career, your way, thanks to our structured Career Paths framework.
• You’ll be encouraged through our accredited training and development scheme with a dedicated mentor and supervisor, supporting you to Chartership, if you wish.

Being part of one of the UK’s largest building engineering consultancies, we benefit from collaborating with some of the best engineers in the business, with access to state‑of‑the‑art technical support, and have the opportunity to work on some of the largest and most high‑profile projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The Fire team also work independently on fantastic projects, with many of our team having developed long‑term relationships with many great clients.

Heathrow’s Terminal 2 , Multi-Megawatt Data Centre Campus , the vast £1 billion Elephant and Castle redevelopment in London, and the Great Ormond Street Hospital:
Zayed Centre for Research are examples of some of the amazing projects where we have led the Fire Engineering design with other Hoare Lea disciplines. As part of long‑standing Fire Engineering relationships with external clients, we have led the fire safety design on seven of Manchester’s ten tallest buildings (including the UKs tallest residential tower), developed the current fire strategies for most of the UKs largest airport terminals, and designed two World Cup stadia.

In addition to Hoare Lea’s best‑in‑class training, the Fire group have developed extensive additional training and development opportunities – weekly training sessions for everyone, regular training away‑days, innovation days and access to external training and conferences. We place a particular emphasis on enabling our team to achieve Chartered Engineer status – we have developed a programme for this, and numerous fire engineers have obtained their CEng with us over the years.

This is all enabled by our very experienced and highly qualified team.

We are active in a number of key organisations such as the Society for Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), Smoke Control Association, BSI Group and Institution of Fire Engineers.

Your day‑to‑day tasks will vary, as we’ll expose you to all aspects of our work so you can discover what suits you. You could be:

• Working on live projects from day one – our exciting projects
• In a variety of sectors from healthcare to hotels, retail to residential
• Producing detailed designs and drawings
• Using the latest computer…