About this role
Role Overview
- 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)
Benefits
- free single medical cover and digital GP service
- family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay
- free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes
- reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships
- matched-funding
- paid volunteering time
- charitable donations