Fire Engineer in Portsmouth

Are you a Fire Engineer looking for a new challenge or the next step in your career? We’re hiring a Fire Engineer (£45,000–£70,000 DOE) to support a growing technical team delivering proportionate, practicable, and buildable fire engineering solutions. Demand for our 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. This role gives the successful candidate the chance to position themselves at the centre of a growing technical team, helping shape how our fire engineering capability evolves.

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’s technical capability.

Essential Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Fire Engineering, Fire & Risk Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• 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.
• 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.

We want you to thrive personally and professionally. Alongside a competitive salary, we offer:

• £45-70k depending on experience.
• 21 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Private medical insurance and life cover (subject to medical).
• Support towards professional development, including training, mentoring and professional membership/registration fees.
• Company credit card – no out-of-pocket expenses.