Fire Engineer

Buro Happold; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Life assurance

Income protection

25 days holiday

Pension scheme

Cycle scheme

Dental insurance

Travel insurance

Season ticket loans

Corporate discounts

Birthday off

Wellbeing programme

Young Employees Forum

Job summary

Buro Happold is seeking a Fire Engineer to join our multidisciplinary team. This hybrid role can be based in London, Manchester, Bath, or Edinburgh, offering diverse, high-profile projects and opportunities to grow within a global consultancy.

You will work on complex fire engineering solutions for iconic buildings, develop design strategies, perform calculations, and collaborate with architects and other engineers to deliver safe, sustainable designs.

Qualifications

• Higher education qualification in engineering or fire safety.
• Proven experience delivering fire and life-safety designs for UK projects.
• Ability to obtain agreement for prescriptive and performance-based design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Project manage fire engineering projects with the team.
• Inform and support building design aspirations throughout the process.
• Engage with clients and provide consultancy on projects.
• Monitor financial performance including invoicing and budgets.
• Represent the fire engineering team in meetings with design teams.
• Identify appropriate fixed fire protection systems and perform calculations.

Skills

Fire engineering

Client liaison

Project management

CFD modelling

Collaboration

Education

Engineering degree or fire safety subject

Tools

CFD modelling software

Job description

Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join as our new Fire Engineer.

This is a hybrid role and can be based in either our London, Manchester, Bath, or Edinburgh.

Your next role

As a fire engineering team, we pride ourselves on our global reach. With teams located in the UK, Dubai and Riyadh, we bring international expertise to every project. Our team has a breadth of experience across all sectors, new builds and refurbishments and our technical services and expert witness work embeds a progressive learning culture, enabling us to be at the forefront of industry best practice. In-house computational expertise combined with on point design communication supports the full design service we offer and enables a closer collaboration with architects.

In this role you will work on complex, pinnacle projects across a range of sectors – including iconic sports stadiums and entertainment venues, mega-projects in the Middle East, advanced manufacturing and scientific research facilities, and so much more. You’ll be joining a diverse, inclusive and technically brilliant group of engineers (around 40-strong), and collaborate with a breadth of specialisms across our multidisciplinary practice.

We can offer an outstanding platform for career development, exposing you to some of the most technically challenging projects in the industry which truly push boundaries, and giving your opportunities to take on broader, client-facing and advisory responsibility, working directly with end-user clients.

Key Duties

• Work with the team to project manage fire engineering projects.


• Inform and support the building design aspirations, functionality and architectural form throughout the design process


• Become involved with client care and general consultancy on projects.


• Become responsible for the financial performance of projects, including invoicing and financial monitoring of projects.


• Represent Buro Happold Fire Engineering at design team meetings, both internal and externally.


• Build knowledge to be able to identify and specify appropriate fixed fire protection systems, i.e. automatic fire detection and/or suppression to support fire engineering design solutions.


• Carry out and review fire engineering calculations including smoke modelling and evacuation analysis from simple hand calculations to complex 3D computational modelling (previous CFD experience is welcome but not essential).

Your skills & experience

• Higher education qualification in engineering or in a fire safety related subject.


• Demonstrable professional experience in delivering fire and life safety designs and fire engineered solutions for UK-based projects.


• Track record of gaining agreement for prescriptive and performance-based design solutions from approving authorities.

What we offer you

• Hybrid working arrangements.


• Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance and income protection.


• Holiday entitlement of 25 days. flexible holiday arrangements, and your birthday off.


• Generous company pension scheme.


• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.


• Enhanced parental leave policies.


• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.


• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.


• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.


• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.


• A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.


• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

Ready for something a little less ordinary?

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.