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Our client, a prestigious, internationally renowned engineering consultancy, is looking for Fire Engineers with large (ideally regulated) project experience to join their company to work in support of UK nuclear industry projects. Whilst the client is most keen to find individuals at a Principal / Senior level, they are looking to generally strengthen their Fire Engineering team and will therefore happily consider candidates with a lower level of expereince with relevant industry experience (i.e. nuclear, power, rail, submarines, defence, airports, marine, etc). This role will primarily be based from home, with only an occasional requirement (maybe once per month, possibly less) to visit the office and/or client sites.
Job Responsibility:
Development of fire safety strategies to support compliance with the Building Regulations and relevant fire safety legislation. This includes the development of design solutions encompassing provisions for means and escape, detection and alarm, structural fire protection, suppression, and firefighting access/facilities for the fire and rescue service in accordance with recognised prescriptive good practice and/or fire engineering principles
Undertaking conventional fire assessments / fire risk assessments to support compliance with fire safety legislation and/or the development of fire safety strategies, and to support ALARP demonstrations where non-compliances exist
Undertaking fire modelling with the use of empirical hand calculations and software packages such as CFAST and/or Computational Fluid Dynamics in support of fire safety strategies
Requirements:
STEM degree qualified (Desirable not essential)
Membership with a recognised institution (Institution of fire engineers – Desirable not essential)
Fire safety engineering experience, ideally covering most of the key responsibilities listed above
Experience of application and use of relevant prescriptive codes (e.g. ADB, BS 9999 etc)
Experience of undertaking fire modelling in support of the provision of performance based fire safety engineered solutions (Desirable not essential).
Nice to have:
STEM degree qualified
Membership with a recognised institution (Institution of fire engineers)
Experience of undertaking fire modelling in support of the provision of performance based fire safety engineered solutions
What we offer:
Competitive salary and excellent benefits
generous benefits package
opportunity to work for a highly respected company at the forefront of the UK nuclear industry offering outstanding prospects for future career development and advancement