Job Title: Structural Fire Engineer

Location: London, Edinburgh, Bath, Manchester

Type of Contract: Permanent

Grade: Senior Engineer

Area of Expertise: Specialist Consulting

Region: UK

Office / Project Location: Bath, Edinburgh, London, Manchester

About Us:

Vertical Recruitment is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Structural Fire Engineer to join a dynamic Fire Engineering team. With offices in London, Edinburgh, Bath, and Manchester, we offer an exciting opportunity for a talented professional to contribute to exciting and complex building projects.

Key Duties:

As a Senior Structural Fire Engineer, you will:

• Collaborate with structural engineers on intricate and challenging buildings to ensure life safety and optimize protection.
• Provide input to design aspirations, functionality, and architectural form.
• Project manage small to medium structural fire engineering projects.
• Assume responsibility for the financial performance of small to medium-scale projects.
• Work with Associates and Associate Directors to prepare fee proposals and contribute to work-winning activities.
• Develop, with support, into a lead structural fire engineer on small to medium-scale projects.
• Manage client care and general consultancy on both small- and large-scale projects.
• Mentor junior engineers on their career path.
• Actively promote the department and engage in the development of group strategy.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Master's degree or higher in Structural Engineering or Structural Fire Engineering.
• Chartered engineer status or close to achieving it.
• Experience in an engineering consultancy environment.
• Experience in managing small to medium-scale structural or structural fire engineering projects.
• Experience in writing and reviewing performance-based engineering reports.
• Excellent consultancy skills, strong communication abilities, and experience in dealing with complex situations, negotiation, and understanding the differing needs of clients and stakeholder groups.
• Confident, proactive character, able to take the lead in challenging situations and guide less experienced engineers.

Advantageous Exposure:

• Experience in designing and assessing current and historic structures at ambient temperatures and in fire.
• Experience in undertaking and supervising fire and heat transfer assessments followed by structural modeling at elevated temperatures.
• Experience in using and checking structural fire engineering FEM packages like SAFIR, VULCAN, or similar.
• Experience in undertaking and supervising different forms of fire modeling, including but not limited to natural fires, localized fires, and CFD.

What They Offer:

Hybrid working arrangements.

Discretionary annual bonus.

Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.

International working and flexible holiday.

3 pm finish on the last Friday of the month.

Company Pension Scheme.

Life Assurance and Income Protection.

Professional subscriptions.

Flexible Benefits - including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance, corporate discounts.