Principal Fire Engineer

ARCADIS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Consultant and/or Principal Consultant to join the UK Fire Engineering team. The role focuses on Fire Safety Engineering work, including desktop reviews on early design stages and support across domestic and international projects within the built environment.

You will work within building sectors and occasionally rail projects, contributing to strategy reports, evacuation analyses, and compliance with UK standards.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in fire safety engineering and related design principles.
• Proven ability to work on multi-disciplinary projects and teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop Fire Safety Strategy reports and means of escape analyses.
• Assess and apply UK fire safety regulations and standards (AD B, BS9999, BS7974, BS9991).
• Support Fire Risk Assessment work for buildings and rail projects.
• Attend internal and client design meetings and contribute to proposals.

Skills

Fire safety engineering

Education

Engineering degree (Fire/Mechanical/Civil/Aerospace)

Chartered Engineer status or working towards

Tools

CSCS Card

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

We are actively recruiting for a Senior Consultant and/or Principal Consultant to join our growing Fire Engineering team in the UK. The position is for undertaking Fire Safety Engineering work, to include supporting design projects within and outside the UK. This will mainly involve desktop reviews of design projects on the initial stages and supporting the fire safety discipline Arcadis.

The applicant will work predominantly within the building sector, although opportunities to support other sectors may arise from time-to-time, including rail projects and others considering the multidisciplinary nature of Arcadis as well as the range of services Arcadis deliver to its clients.

Role accountabilities

• Development of Fire Safety Strategy reports;
• Means of Escape analysis (including calculations of evacuation times; escape routes and exits widths; assessment of travel distances; development and assessment of evacuation strategy plans);
• Assessment and understanding of the main British Fire Safety Regulations and Standards applied to buildings, such as Approved Document B (AD B), BS9999, BS7974, BS9991, BB100, HTM 05 etc.;
• Assessment and understanding of the main British fire safety legislation and standards applied to rail projects, such as the London Underground fire safety standards, the Network Rail standards, e.g., LUL – S1371, Railway Safety Principles and Guidance (RSPG), BS9992;
• Risk Based Interpretation and Application of these fire safety documents as well as other Codes of Practice such as international documents such as NFPA standards (e.g., NFPA 101, NFPA 130);
• Third Party Review/Design Verification;
• Attendance of internal design team meetings;
• Attendance of external design team meetings with clients with initial supervision;
• Supporting on the development of Fire Risk Assessment reports for both, the building and rail sectors.

Additional skills and expertise in the following topics would be an advantage

• Hazard Identification;
• As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) understanding;
• Knowledge of PAS 9980, EWS1 forms and Façade Engineering;
• The Building Safety Act 2022;
• Fire Risk Assessment principles;
• Understanding of fire dynamics, heat transfer and smoke behaviour principles in enclosed environments (particularly in undergrounds and tunnels);
• Basic understanding on Active Fire Protection (AFP) systems and Passive Fire Protection (PFP) measures;
• Basic knowledge on fire modelling simulation (using zone models such as CFAST and CFD-based models such as FDS, Pyrosim, SMARTFIRE).

Qualifications & Experience

• Strong experience of fire safety engineering skills
• The candidate would be expected to have a suitable engineering (e.g., Fire Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering etc.), Architecture, scientific or other numerate degree (e.g., Physics, Chemistry, Maths) from a recognised university.
• Qualifications should be recognised by a professional engineering body and the candidate should aspire to full membership of this.
• Ideally a Chartered Engineer or working towards the Chartership.
• The successful candidate should work independently on some set tasks and also contribute to a team environment.
• We are looking for candidates who can take on challenges and work to support other experts within our team when the need arises.
• The role will also require helping to prepare proposals and marketing material in relation to our Fire Safety capabilities.
• CSCS Card - desirable
• Ability to obtain Security Clearance - desirable

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.