Senior Associate Fire / Technical Principal Fire

We are looking for a senior professional specialising in fire safety engineering of high technical calibre who can work both independently and within a wider delivery team. The individual must have a good working knowledge of UK and international fire codes in addition to performance‑based design approaches.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the development of fire safety strategies for all sectors of the built environment and road/rail infrastructure.
• Leading and overseeing review of designs against codes of practice, analysing and designing solutions to bespoke fire engineering problems.
• Working alongside internal/external technical stakeholders to provide advice best suited to the project and the client.
• Specifying and interpreting fire and smoke modelling studies (using tools including FDS and ANSYS CFD).
• Planning and supervising fire engineering design work from concept to detailed design stages, and through construction.
• Ensuring that work is delivered to programme and budget, maintaining high quality.
• Undertaking formal peer reviews of project work.
• Developing relationships with key clients and supporting business development to drive growth.
• Assisting with resource planning, staff training, mentoring, and support.
• Managing own projects via company finance when required.

Qualifications:

• Holding a degree in a relevant engineering or science subject.
• Being a Chartered Engineer or equivalent.
• Having extensive working knowledge of performance‑based fire engineering to national frameworks.
• Having experience with UK fire engineering codes of practice.
• Having working knowledge of international codes such as NFPA and IBC.
• Being familiar with fire/smoke modelling tools such as CFD, zone models, and evacuation models.
• Having excellent report writing, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Communicating effectively with clients, colleagues, and other project team members.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion:

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.

Benefits:

• Financial wellbeing: We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%. Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Employee Ownership: Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues. Health cash plan to support everyday health costs and treatments.
• Lifestyle: A minimum of 33‑35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Learning and development: Primary annual professional institution subscription. Broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‑development options.