Principal / Associate Fire Safety

Tetra Tech Europe; Southampton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Tetra Tech Europe is seeking a Senior/Principal Fire Safety Engineer to join their Fire Safety team in Southampton. This role involves delivering fire engineering services for various sectors, ensuring regulatory compliance, and providing technical oversight. The ideal candidate will have a recognised fire engineering qualification and extensive consultancy experience. Responsibilities include leading fire engineering analyses, participating in design meetings, and mentoring junior engineers. Join us to contribute to impactful projects that enhance safety and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable consultancy experience.
• Extensive track record across commercial, residential, education, healthcare and defense sectors.
• Full, clean UK driving licence and willingness to undergo security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Deliver fire engineering services across public and private sector projects.
• Lead complex fire engineering analyses and produce design solutions.
• Conduct detailed drawing and specification checks for regulatory compliance.

Skills

Fire safety engineering

Technical delivery

Design review

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Recognised fire engineering qualification

Tools

Fire/evacuation modelling tools

Job description

Join Tetra Tech’s expanding Fire Safety team and apply cutting‑edge engineering to projects that protect people and infrastructure. If you’re a meticulous, proactive fire safety engineer who thrives in technical, multidisciplinary teams and wants meaningful career progression, this role is for you.

Purpose & Scope of the Role

As Senior/Principal Fire Safety Engineer you will deliver fire engineering services across public and private sector projects in the UK and internationally. You’ll apply fire engineering principles to building design, undertake technical delivery and compliance checks (Approved Document B, BS 9999 and fire engineering approaches), review designs and drawings, attend site and design‑team meetings, and contribute to winning and delivering projects with a fire safety component.

Your Impact in this position

You will shape safe, pragmatic fire solutions across commercial, residential, education, healthcare and defence sectors. Your technical decisions will influence design teams and client outcomes, reduce risk, and support project delivery. You’ll also provide technical guidance that raises team capability and ensures consistent, high‑quality engineering outputs.

Core Capabilities

• Technical Delivery: Lead complex fire engineering analyses, apply fire dynamics, and produce robust, defendable design solutions.
• Design Review & Compliance: Conduct detailed drawing and specification checks for regulatory compliance and engineered solutions.
• Modelling & Analysis: Use fire and evacuation modelling or structural fire engineering methods to inform design and risk assessments.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Communicate clearly with clients, project teams and contractors at all levels; represent fire engineering input in meetings and on site.
• Coaching & Leadership: Mentor junior engineers, provide technical oversight, and contribute to business growth and project winning activities.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Recognised fire engineering qualification and demonstrable consultancy experience. Extensive track record across the listed sectors. Familiarity with fire/evacuation modelling tools or structural fire methods is advantageous. Full, clean UK driving licence and willingness to undergo security clearance.

In alignment with the Equality Act 2010, we will make reasonable adjustments to support candidates and employees requiring additional arrangements. This could include adaptations to work schedules, training approaches, or the physical workspace. Please inform us if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process or in your day‑to‑day role.