Senior Fire Engineer

Job description

A leading fire engineering consultancy is seeking an experienced Senior Fire Engineer to join its growing team. This role offers strong technical variety, career progression, and the opportunity to work on high-profile projects across residential, commercial, education, and complex building sectors.

If you have proven experience delivering fire strategies and want to accelerate your development within a supportive consultancy environment, this role is an excellent next step.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce detailed fire strategies, fire safety reports and technical assessments
• Provide guidance on ADB, BS 9991, BS 9999, and UK fire safety regulations
• Liaise directly with architects, contractors, design teams and approval bodies
• Manage project delivery from concept through to completion
• Mentor junior fire engineers and support wider team development
• Ensure compliance, accuracy and high-quality technical output on all projects

Required Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ fire engineering consultancy experience
• Strong background in fire strategy development and code compliance
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients and multi-disciplinary teams
• Confident overseeing own workload and managing project deadlines

Desirable Skills

• Membership or working towards membership of the IFE (MIFireE / FIFireE)
• Experience with high-rise, façade remediation, or performance-based fire design
• Familiarity with fire modelling or evacuation modelling software (advantageous)

What’s on Offer

• Excellent salary depending on experience
• Annual bonus scheme
• Private healthcare
• Full support towards chartership, CPD and professional memberships
• Hybrid working and flexibility
• Exposure to complex, career-enhancing projects
• Clear progression opportunities within a growing consultancy

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

United Kingdom

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

02-04-2026

Profession type

Technical

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English