Fire Assessor Senior Consultant

Electus Recruitment; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance-related bonus

Additional loyalty leave

Matched pension contributions up to 8%

Life assurance

Income protection

Paid professional membership fees

Cycle to work scheme

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

Electus Recruitment is seeking a Senior Fire Safety Consultant to join the client in Bristol on a hybrid basis. This permanent, full-time role offers an opportunity to lead fire safety strategies and risk assessments across complex safety-critical environments.

You will develop technical reports, perform smoke and evacuation modelling, engage with clients and regulators, and mentor junior engineers. Applicants should have a degree in fire safety engineering and proven experience in

Qualifications

• A degree in Fire Safety Engineering, Fire Protection Technologies or a related discipline
• Experience carrying out fire risk assessments
• Experience working within safety‑critical environments
• Strong communication skills with the confidence to work with clients, technical teams and regulatory stakeholders
• Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR) knowledge is a plus
• Critical National Infrastructure environments experience is useful
• Experience in mentoring or developing junior engineers and consultants

Responsibilities

• Develop fire safety strategies, technical reports, notes and supporting documentation
• Carry out fire risk assessments and contribute to design-stage fire safety reviews
• Assess fire safety risks and develop practical engineering solutions
• Undertake fire engineering analysis including smoke modelling, evacuation modelling and temperature spread calculations
• Support assessments relating to compartmentation plus passive and active fire protection
• Work directly with clients, design teams and relevant regulatory stakeholders
• Use fire modelling software to support fire dynamics assessments and simulations
• Help develop the consultancy’s wider Fire Engineering and Assessment service
• Support junior team members and specialist associates working across existing projects

Skills

Fire risk assessments

Safety-critical environments

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Fire Safety Engineering

Job description

Senior Fire Safety Consultant Bristol | Hybrid
£DOE
Permanent | Full-time

Join a specialist engineering consultancy and take on a senior fire engineering role supporting complex safety-critical environments while helping develop a growing Fire Engineering and Assessment capability.

You will lead and deliver fire strategies, fire risk assessments and design-stage consultancy across technically demanding projects. Working within a consultancy environment, the role combines hand‑on technical work with client engagement, design review and support for more junior members of the team.

There is an established order book of fire assessment work so you will be joining with live projects to support from the outset.

What you will be doing

• Develop fire safety strategies, technical reports, notes and supporting documentation
• Carry out fire risk assessments and contribute to design-stage fire safety reviews
• Assess fire safety risks and develop practical engineering solutions
• Undertake fire engineering analysis including smoke modelling, evacuation modelling and temperature spread calculations
• Support assessments relating to compartmentation plus passive and active fire protection
• Work directly with clients, design teams and relevant regulatory stakeholders
• Use fire modelling software to support fire dynamics assessments and simulations
• Help develop the consultancy’s wider Fire Engineering and Assessment service
• Support junior team members and specialist associates working across existing projects

What we are looking for

• A degree in Fire Safety Engineering, Fire Protection Technologies or a related discipline
• Experience carrying out fire risk assessments
• Experience working within safety‑critical environments
• Strong communication skills with the confidence to work with clients, technical teams and regulatory stakeholders

Experience in any of the following would be useful

• Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR)
• Critical National Infrastructure environments
• Supporting or developing junior engineers and consultants

Security requirements

Due to the nature of the work applicants must be sole UK nationals.

You must also be able to satisfy the requirements for UK National Security Vetting and complete the necessary pre‑employment screening.

The wider package includes

• Annual performance‑related bonus
• Additional loyalty leave
• Matched pension contributions of up to 8% from day one
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Paid professional membership fees
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Family‑friendly policies

Working pattern

The role is based in Bristol with a flexible hybrid working arrangement combining office work, client‑site activity and home working.

Due to the nature of work at our client’s site, these vacancies are only open to British nationals.

This is a permanent role.