Senior Fire Engineer

Buro Happold, City of Westminster

Senior Fire Engineer

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Buro Happold, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 18 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 7a0759a00c6c44888194a0a703710a5b

Full Job Description

  • Work with the team to project manage fire engineering projects.
  • Inform and support the building design aspirations, functionality and architectural form throughout the design process
  • Become involved with client care and general consultancy on projects.
  • Become responsible for the financial performance of projects, including invoicing and financial monitoring of projects.
  • Represent Buro Happold Fire Engineering at design team meetings, both internal and externally.
  • Build knowledge to be able to identify and specify appropriate fixed fire protection systems, i.e. automatic fire detection and/or suppression to support fire engineering design solutions.
  • Carry out and review fire engineering calculations including smoke modelling and evacuation analysis from simple hand calculations to complex 3D computational modelling (previous CFD experience is welcome but not essential).

    Higher education qualification in engineering or in 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.

    Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance and income protection.
  • Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
  • Generous company pension scheme.
  • Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
  • Enhanced parenthood leave policies
  • 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month
  • A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
  • Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
  • A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
  • An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from the exceptional.
  • Ready for something a little less ordinary?