Associate Director

1 week ago

Camden Area, Greater London, United Kingdom Hoare Lea Full time
Fire – Associate DirectornLondonnCompetitive salary + benefits

We have an exciting opening for a Associate Director (Fire Engineer) to join our firm in our London office. This would be a part-time role and offer flexibility to the successful candidate.

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.


Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.


Hoare Lea's Fire Engineering group is a leading team of experienced fire safety experts, many of whom are Chartered Engineers through the Institution of Fire Engineers.


Being part of one of the UKs 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 UKs largest and most high profile projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

However, the fire team also works independently on fantastic projects, with many in our team having developed long-term relationships with many great clients.


Heathrow's Terminal 2, Doha's new metro, the vast £1billion Elephant and Castle redevelopment in London, the extension to the ExCeL centre and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young Persons in Edinburgh 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.

A particular area where we have invested heavily is training and research.

We have numerous research groups within the team to ensure that we remain at the cutting edge of our discipline; this includes computational and numerical modelling, emerging fire risks, new techniques and even fire testing – we recently led the design and implementation of two of the world's largest ever cross laminated timber (CLT) compartment fire tests in France, to successfully validate our detailed calculations for a highly sustainable timber office building project.


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 have an outstanding flexible benefits package – the 9-day fortnight in particular (whereby we can work slightly longer days to enable an additional day-off every fortnight) has proved to be highly valued by our 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.

Why Work For Us?


The Fire Engineering group's strategy is simple, we want to do world-class fire engineering on the best projects with great clients.

We want the team to enjoy the projects they do and who they work with, so our portfolio is of high quality, varied and really interesting.


As part of Hoare Lea's larger team of built-environment specialists, we have access to some of the UKs largest and highest profile projects.

However, we also work independently and have developed long-term relationships with some great clients – there is no greater personal satisfaction from winning repeat projects from clients who think you've done a great job and like working with you.


We are strong because we recognise that everyone has different skills to offer – our team includes ex fire service, building services and building control professionals, and engineers with degrees in physics, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, materials science, forensics – oh, and fire engineering.

The opportunities we provide for training and development are second-to-none. We invest significantly in this, and our aim is to ensure our team can achieve Chartered Engineer status. We have a highly experienced and qualified team to ensure that this can happen.

We really want everyone to have the right work-life balance and to enjoy their work.

We enable this by having a great benefits and flexible working package – including the ability to work a 9-day fortnight, and by choosing only the best projects for great clients, supported by extensive training and experienced colleagues.

We are a really friendly, supportive and inclusive team, and enjoy numerous socials with our office colleagues and with the fire engineering team.

The Role


Hoare Lea's Fire Engineering team focuses on the fire safety design of buildings.nWe work with colleagues within Hoare Lea as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and also have a significant portfolio of long-term external clients.


Our projects are principally based in the UK, and a detailed understanding of UK regulations and design guidance is desirable.

Able to work with, and have an appreciation of the integration of, other construction professionals' requirements for the project.


Ensuring open communication among all project team members so that feedback is provided and acted upon efficiently in a timely manner.


Attending design team meetings, design workshops, client meetings and site meetings.nTravel to clients or projects in the UK, and occasionally internationally, according to project demands.

Working knowledge of software analysis tools – evacuation, smoke and fire modelling, heat radiation models and structural fire modelling.

What We Are Looking For

Experience working within a fire engineering consultancy role.


A relevant degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Building Services, Maths, Architecture, or Physics, with a keen interest in Fire Engineering.

You will have a good technical knowledge in the primary discipline of fire safety design.

You will be IT literate with a working understanding of fire modelling software analysis tools.


You should have excellent communication skills and an interest in working in a team environment.nYou will have the ability and commitment to effectively deliver to demanding timescales, and have good organisational and planning skills.

Our benefits


To reward your hard work and commitment we offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry-leading training and development to support you throughout your career.

Core benefits

Private medical schemenLife AssurancenIncome protectionnTravel Allowance – electric car schemen25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with length of servicenContributory pension schemenEmployee Assistance ProgrammenEnhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental LeavenSeason Ticket LoansnProfessional membership subscriptionnFlexitime

Flexible benefits


9-day fortnight – the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnightnHybrid Working – activity-based approachnEmployee stock purchase plan – a voluntary program which allows eligible employees to purchase Tetra Tech common stock at a 15% discountnHoliday buy & sell up to 5 daysnStudy AssistancenCycle to work schemenEmployee Referral SchemenSabbatical LeavenOther flexible benefits include gym and retail discounts, travel & dental insurance and GAYE (Give as you Earn)nFlexible working - We're happy to discuss flexible working.

There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to.

Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage

How to apply

To apply simply complete a CV profile and submit your application, or for further information please contact

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We have updated our terms and conditions for candidates, to find out more please click on the link below:n opportunities statement


Hoare Lea is committed to ensuring that the most suitably qualified and experienced candidates are appointed to positions within the firm on the basis of job-related criteria.

Positive action statement


We know that to be the best at what we do we need a diverse workforce underpinned by an inclusive culture.

That's why we particularly welcome applications from women, global ethnic majority, neurodiverse and disabled candidates, as they are under-represented within leadership roles at Hoare Lea

Reasonable adjustments statement

"We're proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer, and we're committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. If you have a disability that might affect your performance at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know about any help or reasonable adjustments as soon possible before any interview or assessment. We'll work with you to make sure any appropriate support is in place."

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