Senior Fire Engineer

AECOM; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Career development

AECOM University

Volunteer days

Job summary

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

You will oversee a local team, provide mentorship with senior support, and drive growth within a reputable fire safety consultancy. Ideal candidates are established consultants seeking career advancement or professionals eager to expand knowledge and design skills within a leading global firm.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or professional qualification.
• Demonstrable experience in a range of sectors and technical fire engineering applications – with a focus on UK regulations and markets.
• Experience managing fire engineering aspects of small to medium design projects within timescales and budgets.
• Experience guiding 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 and evacuation modelling.
• Manage design projects, review the work of others.
• Apply fire engineering in multiple sectors with emphasis on UK regulations.
• Develop approaches to solve new problems using modified procedures.
• Participate in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.
• Lead the development of accurate cost estimates for technical efforts.

Skills

Fire engineering

CFD modelling

Evacuation modelling

UK regulations

Project management

Mentoring

Education

BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in Fire Engineering

IFE or EngC membership

Tools

CFD software

Evacuation software

Job description

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

AECOM is seeking a Senior 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.

Come grow with us:

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised 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.
• 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:

• BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in Fire Engineering or similar.
• Professional membership with the Institution of Fire Engineers or Engineering Council and progressing along the route to Chartership.
• 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

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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 aDisabilityConfidentEmployer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.