Principal Fire Engineer

at  Hydrock

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Principal Fire Engineer to join our thriving Fire team in our Bristol office.

THE TEAM - OUR FIRE ENGINEERING DIVISION

Our Fire Engineering team is one of the UK’s largest operating within a leading multi-disciplinary consultancy. It’s growing reputation for quality and responsiveness has resulted in exceptional growth and the group is now represented in all regional capitals within England, Scotland and Wales.
You will work closely with colleagues of various disciplines within the South East region and have an existing project portfolio which includes high-profile projects with regional, national and international clients.
We are a close-knit team that works collectively towards challenges. We value the input of all members of the team and encourage everyone to bring ideas to the table. The South East is one region of six that the Fire Engineering Division operate in, throughout the UK and international markets, with over 100 staff in the Fire Safety Division.
Projects: We have a diverse portfolio of work, operating in the typical sectors of Residential, Commercial and Education, as well as more specialist sectors such as Aviation, Battery Storage, Data Centres, Healthcare, High-Hazard and Nuclear.

The team provides the following services to clients:

• Advisement on applicable codes, standards and guidance
• Fire engineering design and analysis
• Fire strategy development
• Advisement on regulatory code compliance
• Means of escape design and analysis
• Evacuation analysis and pedestrian flow modelling
• Structural fire protection design and analysis
• Structural optimization analysis
• Fire impact analysis
• External fire spread analysis
• Smoke control design and analysis
• Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis
• Design and specification of fire protection systems
• Construction phase consultation service
• Third party peer review.

Post occupation services:

• Fire management plan development
• Fire evacuation plan development
• Fire risk assessment.

As a Fire Engineer within our busy fire engineering team, you will have project management responsibilities for the delivery of fire engineering. You will support the Director of Fire Engineering to implement the company business plan, managing a team of up to ten people in the delivery of fire engineering projects, while supporting existing clients and develop new opportunities.

What you will be responsible for:

• Delivery of technically excellent Fire Engineering design on a number of projects
• Early-stage strategic input to design
• Detailed design to construction status information and beyond into Post Occupancy Evaluation
• Site inspections and reporting throughout construction

What skills and attributes are we looking for?

• BSc/ BEng/ MSc/ MEng or equivalent
• Experienced working in a fire engineering consultancy, delivering fire strategy and fire safety consultancy services
• Passion and talent for fire engineering
• A confident, outgoing and fun person who enjoys being part of a busy team
• An articulate communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills
• A self-starter who is tenacious in concluding tasks
• Someone with drive, ambition and enjoys change and variety

• Delivery of technically excellent Fire Engineering design on a number of projects
• Early-stage strategic input to design
• Detailed design to construction status information and beyond into Post Occupancy Evaluation
• Site inspections and reporting throughout constructio