Fire Engineer

Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join as our new Fire Engineer. This is a hybrid role and can be based in either our London, Manchester, Bath, or Edinburgh.

Our fire engineering team prides itself on its global reach. With teams located in the UK, Dubai and Riyadh, we bring international expertise to every project. Our team has breadth of experience across all sectors, including new builds and refurbishments, technical services and expert witness work. In‑house computational expertise combined with on‑point design communication supports the full design service we offer and enables closer collaboration with architects.

• Project manage fire engineering projects with the team.
• Inform and support building design aspirations, functionality and architectural form throughout the design process.
• Provide client care and general consultancy on projects.
• Be responsible for the financial performance of projects, including invoicing and financial monitoring.
• Represent Buro Happold Fire Engineering at design team meetings, both internal and externally.
• Build knowledge to identify and specify appropriate fixed fire protection systems, e.g., automatic fire detection and/or suppression.
• Carry out and review fire engineering calculations including smoke modelling and evacuation analysis from simple hand calculations to complex 3D computational modelling.

• Higher education qualification in engineering or a fire safety related subject.
• Demonstrable professional experience in delivering fire and life safety designs and fire‑engineered solutions for UK‑based projects.
• Track record of gaining agreement for prescriptive and performance‑based design solutions from approving authorities.

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance and income protection.
• 25 days holiday entitlement, flexible holiday arrangements, and your birthday off.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parental leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• Strong commitment to your continuous development with learning and development programme.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• Commitment to wellbeing through employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.
• Supportive and inclusive environment with social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.

Buro Happold values flexible working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those seeking flexibility in their careers.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry.

We have much to learn from one another and embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

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