Fire Engineer

Jensen Hughes; Belfast; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits talented Fire Engineers at a leading consultancy in Belfast. Join a dynamic team and contribute to world-class life safety solutions while working on innovative projects across Europe. This role offers the chance to develop your career rapidly, with support towards achieving chartered status. As part of a diverse and inclusive environment, you'll prepare fire strategies, manage projects, and engage with clients, making a significant impact in the field of fire engineering. If you're passionate about safety and engineering excellence, this is the perfect role for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in fire engineering within a consultancy environment.
• Ability to work independently and manage projects effectively.

Responsibilities

• Prepare fire strategies for various buildings using relevant codes.
• Lead technical projects and manage client communications.
• Attend industry conferences to network and stay updated.

Skills

Fire Engineering

Project Management

Technical Leadership

Client Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Fire Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Company Overview

At Jensen Hughes, we lead with our Purpose + Principles and value our people. Across our global partnership of experts, clients, and communities, we are recognized worldwide for our leadership in fire protection engineering, a legacy of responsibility we have advanced with pride since 1939. Today, our expertise extends broadly across closely related risk management fields — from accessibility consulting, risk and hazard analysis, process safety and forensic investigations to security risk consulting, emergency management and digital innovation. As we champion best practices, set industry standards and support communities with innovative solutions, we are making the world a better place.

We believe that creating and sustaining a culture of trust, integrity and professional growth fundamentally includes a sustained commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

At Jensen Hughes, diversity is ingrained in our culture -- we accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background. Our differences and uniqueness are celebrated and reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks.

Job Overview

Jensen Hughes have a rare and exciting opportunity for a talented Fire Engineer to join our market leading Belfast team and help us drive excellence across our projects and deliver world class life safety solutions to our diverse client base in 2025! Our Belfast team have had a record-breaking year with some truly impressive successes to shout about, now is a great time to join us.

Why join us to grow your career:

• We are the largest fire consultancy in Europe with offices located in Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy, and the UK & Ireland. Our reputation for providing innovative, design focused solutions has made us the consultant of choice for many of Europe’s leading property clients.
• As a Fire Engineer at Jensen Hughes, you will be an integral part of a dynamic technical team, working with our experienced Engineers alongside other teams including our Forensics division you will work on the industry’s leading technical projects.
• Working with us offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
• You will be given early the opportunity to progress rapidly. Jensen Hughes encourage all Engineers to achieve chartered status and offer help and support during the process.

Responsibilities

• Preparing fire strategies for a wide range of buildings using ADB, BS9999, BS9991, BS7974, HTM Guidance and BB100 among other documents.
• Take a lead on Technical projects
• Manage medium/large size projects including fee proposals and invoicing.
• Be the expert to our clients and that all important first point of call.
• Lead discussion with design team, building control and fire service.
• Attend industry conferences to network and embrace industry trends and best practices

Requirements and Qualifications

To set you up for success in this role from day one (at a minimum) the following qualifications/experience are required:

• A background in fire engineering preferably within a consultancy environment
• A bachelor’s degree or higher within Fire engineering or similar such as Mechanical Engineering
• Ideally working towards becoming a Chartered engineer
• The ability to undertake works independently

Jensen Hughes is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.