Senior Fire Engineer Job at Amentum (Bristol)

Job Description

Amentum is currently recruiting for Senior Fire Engineer to join our Energy business. The department is entering an exciting phase of opportunity by supporting our key client’s UK nuclear fleet through a business transformation, and by supporting new small modular reactor developers. Our work is varied, covering New Build, Generation, Life Extension, and Defueling, and our capabilities are in demand across the nuclear sector. This role will be based at one of our Energy offices (Newcastle, Glasgow, Warrington, Gloucester, Bristol or Knutsford). We put flexibility at the heart of what we do and we’re happy to consider flexible working patterns.

Job Responsibility

Development of fire safety strategies to support compliance with the Building Regulations and relevant fire safety legislation
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
Membership with a recognised institution (Institution of fire engineers)
Fire safety engineering experience
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

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