We have a fantastic opportunity for a Principal Fire Engineer to join our thriving Fire team in our Newcastle office.
Please note that we are currently able to offer relocation packages. If this is something that is of interest, please let us aware during your screening and interview process.
The Team - Our Fire Engineering Division
Our Fire Engineering team is one of the UK’s largest operating within a leading multi-disciplinary consultancy. It’s growing reputation for quality and responsiveness has resulted in exceptional growth and the group is now represented in all regional capitals within England, Scotland and Wales.
You will work closely with colleagues of various disciplines within the North East region and have an existing project portfolio which includes high-profile projects with regional, national and international clients.
We are a close-knit team that works collectively towards challenges. We value the input of all members of the team and encourage everyone to bring ideas to the table. The North East is one region of six that the Fire Engineering Division operate in, throughout the UK and international markets, with over 100 staff in the Fire Safety Division.
Projects: We have a diverse portfolio of work, operating in the typical sectors of Residential, Commercial and Education, as well as more specialist sectors such as Aviation, Battery Storage, Data Centres, Healthcare, High-Hazard and Nuclear.
The team provides the following services to clients:
1. Advisement on applicable codes, standards and guidance
2. Fire engineering design and analysis
3. Fire strategy development
4. Advisement on regulatory code compliance
5. Means of escape design and analysis
6. Evacuation analysis and pedestrian flow modelling
7. Structural fire protection design and analysis
8. Structural optimization analysis
9. Fire impact analysis
10. External fire spread analysis
11. Smoke control design and analysis
12. Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis
13. Design and specification of fire protection systems
14. Construction phase consultation service
15. Third party peer review.
Post occupation services:
16. Fire management plan development
17. Fire evacuation plan development
18. Fire risk assessment.
As a Fire Engineer within our busy fire engineering team, you will have project management responsibilities for the delivery of fire engineering. You will support the Director of Fire Engineering to implement the company business plan, managing a team of up to ten people in the delivery of fire engineering projects, while supporting existing clients and develop new opportunities.
What you will be responsible for:
19. Delivery of technically excellent Fire Engineering design on a number of projects
20. Early-stage strategic input to design
21. Detailed design to construction status information and beyond into Post Occupancy Evaluation
22. Site inspections and reporting throughout construction
What skills and attributes are we looking for?
23. BSc/ BEng/ MSc/ MEng or equivalent
24. Experienced working in a fire engineering consultancy, delivering fire strategy and fire safety consultancy services
25. Passion and talent for fire engineering
26. A confident, outgoing and fun person who enjoys being part of a busy team
27. An articulate communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills
28. A self-starter who is tenacious in concluding tasks
29. Someone with drive, ambition and enjoys change and variety
What's great about Hydrock, now Stantec
are a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a ‘Force for Good’, as it is our aim to improve the quality of people’s lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.
From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities and society that we live in through meeting our client’s needs. Through the path we are on to delivering a green future, the result is something that everyone can be proud of.
Named as Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2023, we’re known for delivering outstanding sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.
Some of these projects have recently received industry accolades, including winning the Conservation and Regeneration category at the Construction Excellence South West Awards 2023; named Commercial Project of the Year at the British Construction Industry Awards 2022; picked out in the Integration and Collaborative Working category at Construction Excellence Wales Awards 2022; singled out for its Universal Design at the Civic Trust Awards 2022; and Bristol’s iconic waterfront sweeping up at the Bristol Property Awards.
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What we can offer you:
30. Inspiring and supportive colleagues
31. Reward for progression and hard work
32. An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills
33. Competitive starting salary
34. Excellent health benefits 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
35. An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!)
36. An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday)
37. A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme
A place to feel included
We champion diversity, equity and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensure we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving this aim.
We consider all application individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of the . We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience so we ask with are made aware of any physical or neurodiverse condition within your application for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us.
Looking for the next steps?
Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you as soon as your application’s been reviewed.
If shortlisted, a member of our Talent Acquisition Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock, now Stantec.
If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices.
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