Senior Fire Engineer - Hybrid & Flexible Hours

HunterDunning Ltd.; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Nine-day fortnight option

Annual discretionary bonus

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Pension up to 10% and private medical

Structured CPD training and mentoring

Job summary

Hunter Dunning Ltd. is seeking a Senior Fire Engineer in Manchester to lead design-led fire engineering for residential, commercial and mixed-use developments.

You will manage complex projects from concept to technical delivery, mentoring juniors and progressing toward chartership. The role requires UK project experience, strong communication with clients and stakeholders, and delivery-focused skills in a specialist consultancy environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in Fire Engineering or related discipline.
• Senior-level fire engineering consultancy experience.
• CEng status or actively progressing toward chartership.
• Strong UK fire engineering project experience.
• Confident client-facing and technical communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead fire engineering projects through design and technical delivery.
• Prepare fire strategies, reports, calculations and design documentation.
• Undertake smoke, evacuation, zone and CFD modelling.
• Review designs and develop practical fire-engineered solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical project leadership.
• Attend meetings with architects, developers, clients and statutory authorities for guidance throughout project delivery.

Skills

Fire engineering expertise

Project leadership

Client-facing communication

Mentoring junior engineers

CEng progress towards chartership

Education

Degree in Fire Engineering or related discipline

Tools

CFD modelling software

Smoke modelling

Job description

Hunter Dunning Ltd. is seeking a Senior Fire Engineer in Manchester to lead design-led fire engineering for residential, commercial and mixed-use developments.

You will manage complex projects from concept to technical delivery, mentoring juniors and progressing toward chartership. The role requires UK project experience, strong communication with clients and stakeholders, and delivery-focused skills in a specialist consultancy environment.