Principal Fire Engineer

ICE Recruit; Manchester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Principal Fire Engineer to join our Fire Team. This consultancy role requires proven experience across sectors and technical fire engineering within a client-focused environment.

You will oversee a local team, provide mentorship with support from senior staff, and contribute to project delivery from inception to completion with minimal oversight, including CFD and evacuation modelling. Hybrid working options are available.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or professional qualification.
• Chartered status (CEng) in Fire Engineering or a related discipline is essential.
• Work experience within a similar consultancy or other relevant business.
• Demonstrable experience in a range of sectors and technical fire engineering applications – with a particular focus on UK regulations and markets.
• Demonstrable experience managing the fire engineering aspects of small to medium sized design projects within agreed timescales and budgets.
• Experience providing guidance to entry level fire engineers.
• Experience preparing fee proposals and task variations for fire engineering activities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver from inception to completion with minimal senior oversight; CFD modelling, evacuation modelling and other analytical fire engineering.
• Manage design projects, and review the work of others.
• Demonstrable experience in a range of sectors and technical fire engineering applications focused on UK regulations and markets.
• Develop approaches to solve new problems using modifications of standard procedures or methods.
• Participate in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.
• Lead the development of accurate cost estimates for technical efforts on projects.
• Lead the Performance & Review process for junior engineers by setting SMART goals.
• Mentor less experienced staff on the road to Chartership.

Skills

CFD modelling

Evacuation modelling

Mentoring

Client management

Team leadership

Technical fire engineering

Education

Relevant degree

Chartered CEng in Fire Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

AECOM is seeking a Principal Fire Engineer to join our Fire Team. This consultancy role requires proven experience across various sectors and technical fire engineering applications in a client-focused environment.

In this role, you will work closely with office leads to oversee and develop a local team, providing guidance and mentorship with support from senior staff. You should have demonstrated professional experience and be ready for further growth.

This position is ideal for an established consultant seeking to advance their career or someone eager to expand their knowledge and design skills within a reputable and well-established fire safety consultancy.

What you’ll do!

• Being able to deliver from inception through to completion, with minimal senior oversight, CFD modelling, evacuation modelling and other forms of analytical fire engineering.

• Managing design projects, preparing, and reviewing the work of others.

• Demonstrable experience in a range of sectors and technical fire engineering applications – with a particular focus on UK regulations and markets.

• Developing approaches to solve new problems encountered using modifications of standard procedures or methods developed in previous assignments.

• Participating in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.

• Leading the development of accurate cost estimates for technical efforts for projects.

• Leading the Performance & Review process for junior engineers by setting and monitoring SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound) goals for team members.

• Support and mentor less experienced staff on the road to Chartership.

Come grow with us:

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalized benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant degree or professional qualification.

• Chartered status (CEng) in Fire Engineering or a related discipline is essential.

• Work experience within a similar consultancy or other relevant business.

• Demonstrable experience in a range of sectors and technical fire engineering applications – with a particular focus on UK regulations and markets.

• Demonstrable experience managing the fire engineering aspects of small to medium sized design projects within agreed timescales and budgets.

• Experience providing guidance to entry level fire engineers.

• Experience preparing fee proposals and task variations for fire engineering activities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrable experience of leading and actively supervising a team of more junior engineers with regards to people and projects.

• A clear work history and proof of professional development and learning.

Additional Information

#BESPECIALISM #BEFIRE

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.