Senior Fire Engineer

Salary: £50,000 – £120,000 + Hybrid working + Excellent benefits + Bonus
Location: London/Hackney

Ready for the next step in your fire engineering career?

Whether you're an experienced Senior Fire Engineer looking to take on more responsibility, a Principal ready to lead complex projects, or an Associate looking to influence business strategy, this is an opportunity to make a genuine impact within a growing, people-focused consultancy.

We're recruiting across multiple levels for an established, privately owned multidisciplinary consultancy in London, offering fire engineering, façade engineering and acoustic design services.

Senior Fire Engineer, Principal Fire Engineer, Associate Director, Fire Engineering

• Lead project delivery, develop fire strategies and build client relationships, with opportunities to grow your technical expertise.

• Lead complex projects, oversee technical quality, mentor colleagues and contribute to commercial success.

• Drive business development, strengthen client relationships and help shape the team’s strategic direction.

Responsibilities will vary depending on your experience and seniority, but may include:

• Developing and delivering fire strategies across RIBA Stages 2–5.

• Undertaking fire risk appraisal of external walls (FRAEW) work and producing EWS1 reports where appropriately qualified and experienced.

• Leading fire engineering projects across residential, commercial, healthcare, care, education and mixed-use developments.

• Attending design team meetings and liaising with clients, architects, consultants and approving authorities.

• Applying UK fire safety legislation and building regulations to complex building designs.

• Reviewing technical work, maintaining quality standards and supporting the development of colleagues.

• Contributing to bids, proposals and client relationships, with greater responsibility for business development at senior leadership level.

• Identifying project risks, supporting commercial decisions and helping improve internal processes.

£50,000–£120,000 + a benefits package

• Hybrid working – just 2 days per week in the London office.

• 25 days' annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and additional Christmas shutdown.

• Option to buy up to 15 additional days of annual leave.

• 5% enhanced employer pension.

• Discretionary annual bonus.

• 4× salary life assurance and 70% income protection.

• Health and wellbeing allowance, digital GP and family-inclusive wellbeing support.

• Funded CPD, professional fees and chartership support.

• TOIL / paid overtime options.

• Flexible working culture with genuine opportunities to influence the business.

• Around 5–12+ years' fire engineering experience, depending on level and depth of expertise.

• Experience with in a fire engineering consultancy.

• Strong knowledge of UK fire safety legislation, building regulations and fire strategy development.

• Experience delivering fire strategies and working with multidisciplinary design teams.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective client relationships.

• Experience reviewing technical work and supporting colleagues, particularly at Principal and Associate level.

• Chartered Engineer status, or actively working towards chartership, with relevant professional membership such as IFE where appropriate.

• The ability to work from the London office two days per week.

• Experience in fire and evacuation modelling, external wall assessments, building safety regulatory work, business development or team leadership would be advantageous depending on the position.

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