Associate/Principal Fire Engineer

1 week ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Hydrock Full time

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Associate or Principal Fire Engineer to join our thriving Fire team in our Birmingham office.

The Team - Our Fire Engineering Division

Our Fire Engineering team is one of the UK's largest operating within a leading multi-disciplinary consultancy. It's growing reputation for quality and responsiveness has resulted in exceptional growth and the group is now represented in all regional capitals within England, Scotland and Wales.

You will work closely with colleagues of various disciplines within the Bristol region and have an existing project portfolio which includes high-profile projects with regional, national and international clients.

We are a close-knit team that works collectively towards challenges. We value the input of all members of the team and encourage everyone to bring ideas to the table. Bristol is one region of six that the Fire Engineering Division operate in, throughout the UK and international markets, with over 100 staff in the Fire Safety Division.

Projects: We have a diverse portfolio of work, operating in the typical sectors of Residential, Commercial and Education, as well as more specialist sectors such as Aviation, Battery Storage, Data Centres, Healthcare, High-Hazard and Nuclear.

The team provides the following services to clients:

  • Advisement on applicable codes, standards and guidance
  • Fire engineering design and analysis
  • Fire strategy development
  • Advisement on regulatory code compliance
  • Means of escape design and analysis
  • Evacuation analysis and pedestrian flow modelling
  • Structural fire protection design and analysis
  • Structural optimization analysis
  • Fire impact analysis
  • External fire spread analysis
  • Smoke control design and analysis
  • Design and specification of fire protection systems
  • Construction phase consultation service
  • Third party peer review.
  • Fire risk assessment.

As a Fire Engineer within our busy fire engineering team, you will have project management responsibilities for the delivery of fire engineering. You will support the Director of Fire Engineering to implement the company business plan, managing a team of up to ten people in the delivery of fire engineering projects, while supporting existing clients and develop new opportunities.

What you will be responsible for:

  • Leading a team delivering Fire Engineering design on a number of projects at any one time
  • Management of team projects, providing technical support to peers as necessary
  • Ensure effective management of project time within appointed scope
  • Early-stage strategic input to design at concept stage
  • Detailed design to construction status information and beyond into Post Occupancy Evaluation
  • Writing and contributing to fee proposals
  • Review technical documents and fire strategies prepared by others
  • Ensure team well-being within reasonable working hours

What skills and attributes are we looking for?

  • BSc/ BEng/ MSc/ MEng or equivalent
  • Experienced working in a fire engineering consultancy, delivering fire strategy and fire safety consultancy services
  • Passion and talent for fire engineering
  • A confident, outgoing and fun person who enjoys being part of a busy team
  • An articulate communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills
  • A self-starter who is tenacious in concluding tasks
  • Someone with drive, ambition and enjoys change and variety

What's great about Hydrock 'in a nutshell'

We are a British-owned integrated multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a 'Force for Good', as it is our aim to improve the quality of people's lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.

From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities and society that we live in through meeting our client's needs. Through the path we are on to delivering a green future, the result is something that everyone can be proud of.

Our welcoming and friendly culture is something we are proud of and has gained us recognition with 9 years in the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For list . Check out some of our incredible projects which have been awarded: 2022 Net Zero Award forBay Technology Centre , Integration and Collaborative Working Award for YGG Tan-y-Lan primary school, The Deaf Academy awarded for its Universal Design at the 2022 Civic Trust Awards and Bristol's iconic waterfront Wapping Wharf Living making a double win at the Bristol Property Awards

  • An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills
  • Excellent health benefits25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too
  • An earlier finish on Friday (4pm)
  • An opportunity to give back: "Day off for good cause" (on a workday)
  • A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme

We champion diversity, equity and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensure we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving this aim.

We consider all application individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of theprotected characteristics . We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience so we ask with are made aware of any physical or neurodiverse condition within your application for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us.

Looking for the next steps?

Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you as soon as your application's been reviewed.

If shortlisted, a member of our Recruitment Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock.

If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices.

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