Junior Engineer - Fire and Life Safety

Thehseleader; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Thehseleader seeks an Engineer – Fire and Life Safety (FLS) to assist in delivering design and engineering guidance across our projects worldwide. You will support Senior FLS engineers, review drawings, and provide fire safety insights to stakeholders, while staying current with NFPA and UAE Fire Code standards.

Ideal candidates have 5–8 years of experience, NFPA certification, and a Chartered Engineer status.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Architecture or Engineering required.
• NFPA Certified or equivalent credential is preferred.
• Experience 5–8 years in fire and life safety
• Chartered Engineer affiliated with a professional engineering institute required.

Responsibilities

• Review architectural layouts against fire & life safety codes (NFPA, UAE Fire Code).
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to internal project teams.
• Generate fire safety memorandums, notes, and presentations on critical issues.
• Maintain up-to-date fire safety notes in project tracker and update internal guidance.

Skills

Fire safety knowledge

Risk assessment

Technical guidance

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Architecture

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering

Tools

NFPA standards

UAE Fire Code

Job description

Role Description:

This position of Engineer – Fire and Life Safety (FLS) is to assist the Senior Engineer – FLS in providing design and engineering designs and guidance on the subject expertise. The team's objective is to facilitate the provision of sufficient and inclusive fire safety across all our projects worldwide by perpetually acquiring knowledge, advocating for, and advancing evidence-based fire safety design and science. You will report directly to the Senior Engineer – FLS and will be required to offer technical assistance. This is a compelling chance to join a progressive and expanding multi-disciplinary internal team, with prospects to influence and propel team development.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively engaging with internal project teams to understand the need for support and provide adequate technical support.
• Assist in review of architectural layouts in accordance with applicable fire & life safety codes (i.e; NFPA, UAE Fire Code etc).
• Assist in reviewing design information, for example, drawings, presentations, and specifications, and providing fire safety comment and advice.
• Assist in reviewing technical design information and contractor's proposals, for example design solutions, product datasheet, test and classification reports and providing fire safety comments and advice.
• Generating, issuing, and distributing memorandums, technical notes, and presentations on critical fire safety issues which may impact projects or the wider organisation.
• Carrying out research into and having proactive oversight over the fire safety implications of new technologies, materials, approaches, and regulation –feeding back insights to applicable stakeholders in a clear manner and making any relevant recommendations.
• Carrying out qualitative and/or quantitative risk assessments and presenting to stakeholders, to enable informed decision-making.
• Sharing fire safety knowledge and providing basic fire safety training/education to the architects within Studio 360.
• Assist in generating fire safety strategy reports on all building projects.
• Assisting in the updating and maintaining of internal best practice guidance and documentation.
• Assist in generating proposals, as required, for design or research services.
• Carrying out fire safety and science research, as required, for multi-organisational projects.
• Keeping accurate and up-to-date FLS notes in the project tracker.
• Managing your own workload, tasks, and time to hit relevant deadlines and meet stakeholder expectations.
• Identifying personal and team training needs, staying up to date with relevant knowledge and feeding this back to the Studio leadership.

Preferred Degrees:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in: Architecture
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in: Engineering
• NFPA Certified
• Experience Min: 5 - 8 Years
• Thorough understanding of NFPA 101, NFPA 5000, UAE Fire Code and each of the relevant design standards such as NFPA 13,14,72, 92 etc Chartered Engineer affiliated with a pertinent professional engineering institute.