Fire Engineer in Hampshire, Portsmouth

Are you a Fire Engineer looking for a new challenge or the next step in your career? Coeus Technical is entering an exciting phase of growth and is looking for an ambitious Fire Engineer to join at a pivotal early stage to support a growing technical team delivering proportionate, practicable, and buildable fire engineering solutions. Our fire engineering services are expanding, creating an opportunity to work across a diverse mix of projects, from standard design work through to complex, performance-based and innovative schemes. This role gives the successful candidate the chance to position themselves at the centre of a growing technical team.

Founded to challenge tick-box culture, this is a unique opportunity to help shape how the fire engineering capability evolves, while growing alongside a consultancy committed to integrity, curiosity and engineering excellence. Demand for our proportionate, practicable, and buildable fire engineering services continues to increase, creating an opportunity to work across a diverse mix of projects, from guidance driven design work through to complex, performance-based and innovative schemes.

Role Description

This is a full-time Fire Engineer position, primarily remote, with the need for a flexible approach to undertake site visits and client meetings as part of a hybrid working arrangement. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Specify proportionate fire safety measures across a range of building types and project stages
• Provide advice and guidance on the application of fire safety legislation and Building Regulations in support of projects
• Develop clear, practical Fire Safety Strategies and supporting technical reports for new and existing buildings
• Undertake fire engineering assessments and contribute to performance-based design where appropriate
• Support risk-based decision-making and provide expert advice on fire safety compliance
• Assist clients in navigating regulatory gateways and approval processes, ensuring documentation is accurate, proportionate and robust
• Support multi-disciplinary design teams by providing practical, coordinated and technically robust fire safety advice throughout concept, design development, detailed design and construction
• Undertake site visits, surveys and inspections to assess fire safety risks, existing conditions and compliance requirements
• Maintain strong client relationships through clear communication, pragmatic advice and a solutions-focused mindset

You will play a key part in supporting the delivery of high-quality fire engineering services across a diverse portfolio, while contributing to the continued growth and development of Coeus' technical capability.

Essential Skills & Qualifications

• Level 5 Fire Engineering Design
• Experience working as a Fire Engineer
• Strong understanding of UK fire safety legislation, guidance and regulatory frameworks, including the Building Regulations, Building Safety Act, Fire Safety Order
• Working knowledge of Fire Risk Assessments (FRA / FRAEW) and routes to compliance
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to self-manage workload and proactively resolve challenges
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain fire safety principles
• Confidence in defending a fire safety position and explaining the rationale behind decisions to clients, approval authorities and project stakeholders
• A collaborative mindset aligned with Coeus values of Honesty, Transparency, Innovation and Respect
• Right to work in the UK

Desirable

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Fire Engineering, Fire & Risk Engineering, or a closely related discipline
• Ability to discuss when and why performance-based design may be appropriate
• Experience of construction activities
• Awareness or foundational understanding of tools such as B-Risk, Pathfinder, PyroSim or FDS
• Experience providing expert witness evidence
• Professional membership or registration (e.g. IFE, IFSM, CABE, CIBSE)
• Experience supporting PAS 9980 appraisals, remediation work or complex design projects
• Interest in contributing to continuous improvement and development of internal processes and methodologies
• Familiar with RIBA stages of design or other design frameworks and understand the total fire concept: from the client brief through to construction and operation, the fire engineering challenges relevant to different design stages and the level/type of fire engineering input required to progress the design and contribute to completion
• Understand and manage the scope and relevant programme constraints of projects, experience in project changes management
• Knowledge of the UK market and approvals process

Benefits

We want you to thrive personally and professionally. What’s on offer:

• £55-75k Depending on experience
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Office closed over Christmas with no need to take annual leave
• Private medical insurance and life cover (subject to medical)
• Support towards professional development, including training, mentoring and professional membership/registration fees
• Pension scheme (3% employer contribution)
• Company credit card – no out-of-pocket expenses

Recruitment agencies and candidates outside the UK need not apply.