Senior Fire Engineer in Essex

Senior, Principal & Associate Fire Engineer

Salary: £50,000 – £120,000 + Hybrid working + Excellent benefits + Bonus
Location: Colchester

Ready for the next step in your fire engineering career?

Whether you're an experienced Senior Fire Engineer looking to take on more responsibility, a Principal ready to lead complex projects, or an Associate looking to influence business strategy, this is an opportunity to make a genuine impact within a growing, people-focused consultancy.

We're recruiting across multiple levels for an established, privately owned multidisciplinary consultancy in Colchester, offering fire engineering, façade engineering and acoustic design services.

The opportunities

• Lead project delivery, develop fire strategies and build client relationships, with opportunities to grow your technical expertise.
• Lead complex projects, oversee technical quality, mentor colleagues and contribute to commercial success.
• Drive business development, strengthen client relationships and help shape the team’s strategic direction.

What you'll be doing

Responsibilities will vary depending on your experience and seniority, but may include:

• Developing and delivering fire strategies across RIBA Stages 2–5.
• Undertaking fire risk appraisal of external walls (FRAEW) work and producing EWS1 reports where appropriately qualified and experienced.
• Leading fire engineering projects across residential, commercial, healthcare, care, education and mixed-use developments.
• Attending design team meetings and liaising with clients, architects, consultants and approving authorities.
• Applying UK fire safety legislation and building regulations to complex building designs.
• Reviewing technical work, maintaining quality standards and supporting the development of colleagues.
• Contributing to bids, proposals and client relationships, with greater responsibility for business development at senior leadership level.
• Identifying project risks, supporting commercial decisions and helping improve internal processes.

THE PACKAGE

£50,000–£120,000 + a benefits package

• Hybrid working – just 2 days per week in the Colchester office.
• 25 days' annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and additional Christmas shutdown.
• Option to buy up to 15 additional days of annual leave.
• 5% enhanced employer pension.
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• 4× salary life assurance and 70% income protection.
• Health and wellbeing allowance, digital GP and family-inclusive wellbeing support.
• Funded CPD, professional fees and chartership support.
• TOIL / paid overtime options.
• Flexible working culture with genuine opportunities to influence the business.

What we're looking for

• Around 5–12+ years' fire engineering experience, depending on level and depth of expertise.
• Experience within a fire engineering consultancy.
• Strong knowledge of UK fire safety legislation, building regulations and fire strategy development.
• Experience delivering fire strategies and working with multidisciplinary design teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective client relationships.
• Experience reviewing technical work and supporting colleagues, particularly at Principal and Associate level.
• Chartered Engineer status, or actively working towards chartership, with relevant professional membership such as IFE where appropriate.
• The ability to work from the Colchester office two days per week.
• Experience in fire and evacuation modelling, external wall assessments, building safety regulatory work, business development or team leadership would be advantageous depending on the position.

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