Associate Fire Engineer

Associate Fire Engineer

Join our fire engineering team on a hybrid role based in London, Leeds, Manchester, Bath, or Edinburgh. We work across the UK, Dubai, and Riyadh, delivering global fire engineering expertise to projects worldwide.

Key Duties

• Lead fire engineering projects, supporting design aspirations, functionality and architecture throughout development.
• Provide client care and consultancy on projects.
• Manage the financial performance of projects, including invoicing and monitoring.
• Represent Buro Happold Fire Engineering at design team meetings, both internal and external.
• Identify and specify appropriate fixed fire protection systems, including detection and suppression.
• Carry out and review fire engineering calculations – smoke modelling and evacuation analysis from hand calculations to 3‑D CFD (previous CFD experience welcome but not essential).
• Support development of junior team members, as mentor or line manager.

Qualifications

• Experience leading fire engineering on major projects.
• Higher education qualification in engineering or a fire safety related subject.
• Demonstrable experience delivering fire and life safety designs for UK projects.
• Track record of obtaining agreement for prescriptive and performance‑based solutions from approving authorities.
• Strong people‑management skills; experience in a line‑management context.
• Excellent commercial and project‑management skills.

Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangements.
• Competitive salary and benefits, including life assurance and income protection.
• 25 days holiday with flexible arrangements and birthday off.
• Generous pension scheme and flexible benefits such as cycle, dental, optical, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parental leave policies.
• 3 pm finish on the last Friday of each month.
• Commitment to continuous development and support for professional memberships.
• Wellbeing programme and supportive inclusive environment.
• International culture with opportunities across our global practice.