Senior Fire Safety Engineer

First Recruitment Group; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency seeks a Senior Fire Safety Engineer for a 6-month contract in Warrington. The role involves developing fire safety strategies, conducting assessments, and providing technical support for various projects. Candidates should have at least 3 years of fire safety engineering experience and familiarity with relevant codes. Hybrid working options are available.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in fire safety engineering.
• Proficiency in fire modelling and compliance with fire safety legislation.
• Experience with various prescriptive codes like ADB and BS 9999.

Responsibilities

• Develop fire safety strategies to comply with legislation.
• Conduct fire risk assessments and conventional fire assessments.
• Provide technical support to architects and project teams.

Skills

Fire safety engineering experience

Experience with relevant prescriptive codes

Fire modelling expertise

Education

Membership with a recognised institution

Tools

CFAST

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Job description

Overview

Senior Fire Safety Engineer to join our client on a contract basis in Warrington. Travel to Knutsford / Gloucester / Newcastle / Glasgow may be required (travel expenses covered).

Responsibilities

• Development of fire safety strategies to support compliance with the Building Regulations and relevant fire safety legislation and undertaking of conventional fire assessments
• Development of fire safety strategies, including design solutions for means and escape, detection and alarm, structural fire protection, suppression, and firefighting access/facilities for the fire and rescue service in accordance with recognised prescriptive good practice and/or fire engineering principles
• Undertaking conventional fire assessments / fire risk assessments to support compliance with fire safety legislation and/or development of fire safety strategies, and to support ALARP demonstrations where non-compliances exist
• Undertaking fire modelling using empirical hand calculations and software packages such as CFAST and/or Computational Fluid Dynamics to support fire safety strategies
• Development of fire strategy and fire safety management arrangements and procedures to support operational management
• Providing technical support to architects on building layouts and to designers on the selection and performance setting of fire protection systems
• Providing fire safety support to projects/programmes with ad-hoc technical queries
• Providing fire safety input to technical design reviews and main project technical review gates
• Providing support to nuclear fire safety assessments and the development of nuclear fire safety cases across a range of industries

Experience / Skills / Knowledge / Qualifications

• Membership with a recognised institution (Institution of Fire Engineers – desirable but not essential)
• Fire safety engineering experience, ideally covering most of the responsibilities listed above (minimum 3 years)
• Experience with relevant prescriptive codes (e.g., ADB, BS 9999)
• Experience of undertaking fire modelling in support of performance-based fire safety solutions (desirable but not essential)
• Contract type: 6 month contract (hybrid role possible)
• Salary/Rate: Competitive