Fire Engineer

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit
The Buildings and Cities Unit (BNC) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

Overview of role

We are looking for a Fire safety engineer of high technical calibre who can work both independently and within the wider delivery team. The individual must have a good working knowledge on UK and international fire codes in addition to performance-based design approaches.

Working alongside other senior fire engineers and the wider multidisciplinary team, the role will involve:

• Developing fire safety strategies: notably for all sectors of the buildings and infrastructure
• Reviewing designs against current codes of practice, analysing and designing solutions to bespoke fire engineering problems
• Working alongside other internal/external technical disciplines to provide advice best suited to the project and the Client
• Specifying and interpreting fire and smoke modelling studies (experience of Fire Dynamics Simulator required)
• Planning and supervising fire engineering design work, from concept to detailed design stages
• Overseeing and coordinating site-based work, such building familiarisation and surveying by specialist teams
• Ensuring that our work is delivered to programme and budget
• Ensuring that our work is delivered to the necessary level of quality
• Undertaking formal peer reviews of project work, both internal and external
• Liaising with project stakeholders at all levels and providing technical advice
• Developing relationships with key clients and supporting business development
• Assisting with resource planning
• Managing their own projects via the company finance systems when required
  

Candidate Specification

Required for the position of Fire Engineer:

• Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council UK or equivalent
• Have a degree in a relevant engineering/science discipline
• Knowledge of fire/smoke modelling tools such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), zone models and evacuation models
• Experience with working with fire engineering codes of practice in the UK
• Experience of working with international codes such as NFPA, IBC, etc.
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients, colleagues and other members of the project team
• Must have excellent report writing skills and interpersonal/presentation skills
• Must have extensive working knowledge and experience of performance-based fire engineering to national frameworks
• Ideally have experience of both buildings and infrastructure projects.
  

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need

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Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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