Graduate Fire Engineer

Job Title: Graduate Fire Engineer  

Location: Manchester/London

Package: Competitive salary + Up to 12% Pension, Health Care, and other Flexible benefits 

Bureau Veritas is looking for Graduate Fire Engineer to join our team of industry leading experts, providing high quality technical guidance and innovative solutions for a diverse client base.

The role will involve providing comprehensive fire engineering services throughout all stages of building design, construction and operation ensuring the current standards and codes of practice are used throughout the project lifecycle.

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.
• 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:

• 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

Plus:

• Comprehensive financial package including competitive salary, defined contribution pension, 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays and ability to increase by up to 5 days via salary sacrifice, various insurances including Private Health Insurance and other flexible benefits to suit individual requirements.