Fire Safety Engineering Lead in London

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

As the Fire Safety Engineering Lead, you will be at the forefront of delivering strategic fire safety and engineering solutions for high-profile projects. Your expertise will guide the development and implementation of fire safety strategies, ensuring compliance with industry standards and enhancing safety measures across complex infrastructure and building projects. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, manage client relationships, and drive innovation in fire systems design and safety engineering. You have substantial experience in designing complex projects, including mobility, building, and infrastructure projects across various regions. Your role involves conducting risk assessments, managing projects and teams, interfacing with other disciplines and clients, and providing solutions for complex issues. Additionally, you will be involved in bid support and reviewing estimates produced by pursuit teams, as well as training and guiding team members.

Principal Duties & Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for assigned projects to ensure successful delivery.
• Lead by example to promote continual improvement in safety, health, and environmental (SHE) performance across the business.
• Provide technical leadership in Fire Systems and Safety Engineering, including designs, feasibility studies, onsite surveys, snagging assessments, and validation of project assurance documentation.
• Evaluate the technical competence of staff proposed for projects and identify specific training and mentoring needs.
• Manage the development and performance of team members, supporting the delivery of Arcadis’ strategic business goals.
• Lead the technical delivery of complex projects, ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management, and seamless collaboration between Arcadis teams.
• Drive efficiency through standardization and automation of key service offerings, ensuring consistency and quality across projects.
• Develop and maintain strong technical client relationships, while playing a key role in business development and securing new work.
• Conduct design checks and reviews to ensure the highest quality deliverables before project submission.
• Provide management leadership, planning resource requirements and delivery strategies for assigned projects.
• Identify new business opportunities and contribute to bids and tenders.
• Maintain excellent relationships with clients’ key representatives and lead the marketing and networking of Arcadis services.
• Champion team development by contributing to skill-building, mentoring, and talent acquisition strategies.
• Raise the level of technical excellence within the fire engineering discipline and ensure consistent delivery of high-quality designs.
• Actively contribute to sustainable development initiatives, ensuring projects align with NetZero and environmental goals.
• Help generate repeat business from internal and external clients and promote the full suite of Arcadis’ capabilities.

Qualifications & Experience:

• BEng/BSc Degree in Safety and Fire Engineering; MEng/MSc preferred.
• 20+ years of design experience across a variety of mobility, building, and infrastructure projects.
• Proven experience in independently leading and managing complex design projects.
• Membership with the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE) and Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.
• Recognized technical authority in Fire Systems and Safety Engineering, with the ability to lead as the technical expert on large-scale and complex projects.
• Demonstrable experience delivering technically excellent solutions for clients such as London Underground, Network Rail, D&B Contractors, and other high-profile stakeholders.
• In-depth knowledge of fire systems engineering, including installations, commissioning, and validation of safety-critical designs.
• Strong understanding of relevant fire safety codes, standards, and regulations.
• Proven stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships at the highest level.
• A proactive problem-solver who demonstrates initiative and can make decisions independently.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, often under pressure and within multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to consider the broader project and business context beyond your own discipline.
• Significant commercial experience, including preparing proposals, tenders, and business strategies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and concisely.
• Strong leadership capabilities with the ability to inspire and manage geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience in delivering projects in 3D BIM environments, including familiarity with common data environments such as ProjectWise.
• Flexibility to travel within the UK and abroad for project-related work when required.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.