Principal Fire Engineer

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain excellent industry relationships and information on fire engineering projects and opportunities.
• Provide technical guidance and expertise into key areas within proposals and tenders.

• Take responsibility for managing fire engineering projects across variety of sectors, including project team, progress and budget.
• Liaise with and maintain good relations with clients, design teams and approval bodies.
• Attend meetings where required, updating project status and adjusting delivery models and schedules where appropriate.
• Review project technical information to prepare fire strategies and provide on-going support from initial concept through to final completion.
• Undertake fire engineering analysis (e.g. radiation, smoke modelling, structural etc.) and third party reviews.
• Provision of design and construction support including site visits where required.
• Develop, analyse, review and issue reports.

Candidate requirements include:

• Degree in Fire Engineering or equivalent engineering qualification. A Masters in Fire Engineering or Engineering will be an advantage
• Demonstrable fire engineering experience
• Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartered status (e.g. Interim Registration with Engineer Council).
• Experience of site visits/inspection for existing buildings and during construction
• Experience of structural fire engineering would be of benefit.
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to prioritise
• Customer focused and strong interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and good report writing skills
• Proficiency in the use of standard IT applications (e.g.  Word, Excel)
• Strives to improve performance and uses innovative methods to get there
• Full UK Driving license.

Bureau Veritas can offer:

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays with the option to buy or sell 5 holidays, plus an option to carry over 5 days
• Combined pension contributions of up to 12%
• Share in Success company bonus scheme - We recognise that overall business success is due to the contribution made by every employee
• Annual Salary review
• Flexible benefits scheme, to suit what is important to you including Life Cover, Private health care, Dental Care, GymFlex, Techscheme, Enhanced Maternity/Paternity policy, Give as You Earn scheme & Travel Insurance
• Health and Wellbeing Support through; Mental Health First aiders, Employee Assistance programme & Smart Health services
• Excellent career development and progression opportunities
• The opportunity to lead on a variety of large, challenging and exciting projects for high profile clients, including some of the world’s most recognised brands; and
• A long list of awards recognition including Top Employer seven years in a row and continued success in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards.