Fire Sprinkler Design Engineer

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Pension

Life Insurance

Bike to Work Scheme

Potential Company Car

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services seeks an experienced fire protection design engineer to lead production of sprinkler system drawings and hydraulic calculations. You will coordinate with clients and subcontractors, attend meetings, and ensure designs meet standards and project specs.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in sprinkler design, proficiency in AutoCAD and Revit, and Canute FHC experience. The role offers UK-based on-site work with progression opportunities and strong benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in fire protection sprinkler design.
• Proficient drawing production in AutoCAD and Revit.
• Experience with hydraulic calculations using Canute FHC.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce sprinkler installation drawings and coordination models.
• Create hydraulic calculations for projects.
• Conduct onsite surveying as needed.
• Attend coordination meetings with project teams.
• Ensure designs comply with relevant standards and specifications.
• Mentor junior members of the design team.

Skills

Fire protection design

Education

LCPB Basic Design Qualification

LPCB Intermediate Design Qualification

FHC Design Qualification (advantageous)

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

Canute FHC

Job description

Job Overview

Argus Fire launched in 1982, is now part of the Mitie Group. We are the UK’s class-leading supplier of fire detection and fire protection systems. We design, install, and maintain all types of automatically operating fire extinguishing systems and electronically activated fire detection and alarm systems for large projects through to servicing small standalone products. We currently have over 200 employees and have offices based in Stourbridge (HQ), Manchester and London.

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Roles And Responsibilities

Ensure designs are produced to a high quality, are compliant with the relevant standards and meet necessary timescales, while maintaining a professional relationship with clients, team members and sub-contractors.

Responsibilities

• Production and design responsibility of fire protection sprinkler system installation drawings and coordination models.
• Production of hydraulic calculations.
• Onsite surveying, where necessary.
• Attend coordination meetings within the wider clients’ task team.
• Carry out checks to ensure designs are complaint to the relevant standards and project specifications.
• Mentor junior members of the design department.

Essential Experience

• Minimum of 5 Years experience in the design of fire protection sprinkler systems.
• Must be experienced in producing technical drawings in AutoCAD and Revit sheets.
• Experience in the production of the hydraulic calculations using the Canute FHC design software.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of LPC Sprinkler Rules is essential.
• Minimum of LCPB Basic Design Qualification.
• LPCB Intermediate and FHC Design Qualifications would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of FM and NFPA standards would be advantageous.

Employee Benefits For This Role

• Company Pension
• Competitive Salary
• Life Insurance
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Potential Company Car depending on experience
• Working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle. We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans. When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices! We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie). We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000! Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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