Associate Director & Lead Fire Engineer – Fire Engineering​/Building Safety Compliance

Vacancy No 5596

Vacancy Title
Associate Director & Lead Fire Engineer

Location

Central London, with occasional travel across the South of England

Fire Engineering — Building Safety & Compliance
· Progression to Director and above

Salary: Competitive, DOE + professional body membership + training + bonus scheme

Reports to: Building Consultancy Director (Fire Safety & Compliance Lead)

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Department: Building Safety & Compliance (within Building Consultancy)

This is a green-field build, not a maintenance job. A well-established, multi-disciplinary property consultancy is launching a brand-new fire engineering service from scratch — and looking for the person to lead it from day one, with a clear route to Director and beyond.

If you’re a Chartered Fire Engineer who’s ready to stop building someone else’s department and start building your own — with an established brand, in-house QS, PM and Development Monitoring teams behind you, and one of the industry’s most competitive billings-linked bonus schemes — this is a rare seat.

Bring your own portfolio and relationships, shape the service your way, and build a team in your own image.

Our client is a well-established, multi-disciplinary property consultancy of Chartered Surveyors, Project Managers and Cost Consultants, based in Central London. Established for over 25 years, the firm has built a strong reputation as a customer-focused practice delivering professional, comprehensive and forward-thinking services across the UK, with the majority of its work concentrated in Greater London.

Its Chartered Building Surveyors are RICS-qualified and its Project Managers are members of the Association for Project Management (APM). Directors are directly and personally involved in every project, giving new joiners genuine exposure to senior expertise from day one. The firm has continued to grow year on year, building out an in-house QS team, a dedicated Development Monitoring department, and a newly launched Building Safety and Compliance team — all within a close-knit culture known for strong staff retention.

This role sits within the firm’s Building Safety and Compliance team, part of its wider Building Consultancy practice, which delivers the full suite of building surveying services with a strong lean towards project management and contract administration. Following the successful launch of the Building Safety and Compliance team, the firm is now expanding into fire engineering to complement its existing offering — and this role will set up that service stream from the ground up.

Work is predominantly based in Greater London, with occasional projects and travel across the South of England as the business requires. Fire engineering services are also expected to move the firm towards the long‑term management and maintenance of buildings — an area not previously served alongside new‑build construction work.

You’ll lead the setup of a brand-new fire engineering service stream, including the full processes, procedures and QA framework behind it — backed by in‑house administration, finance, IT and marketing support. Prove the concept, and you’ll be positioned to lead the department’s expansion within the wider Building Safety & Compliance team. The service offering will include:

• FRAEW & PAS
  9980 risk assessments
• Due diligence technical assessments & expert witness work
• Building assessments, including Fire Risk Assessments under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, fire door assessments, and compartmentation assessments
• Fire Safety Management Plans, including evacuation procedures
• Fire strategy development, including design advice through RIBA Stages 1–6
• Complex fire engineering techniques, including fire and smoke modelling (CFD), evacuation modelling and structural fire engineering analysis
• Retrospective fire strategy development
• HRB application fire engineering advice and ‘Part B’ compliance assessments, covering both HRB and non-HRB buildings
• Fire Statements (Planning Gateway One, London Plan Policy D12A and D12B)
• In‑house and external training delivery