Principal Fire Engineer

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Principal Fire Engineer to join our thriving Fire team in our Leeds 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. Its 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 operates 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:

• Advisement on applicable codes, standards, and guidance
• Fire engineering design and analysis
• Fire strategy development
• Advisement on regulatory code compliance
• Means of escape design and analysis
• Evacuation analysis and pedestrian flow modelling
• Structural fire protection design and analysis
• Structural optimization analysis
• Fire impact analysis
• External fire spread analysis
• Smoke control design and analysis
• Design and specification of fire protection systems
• Construction phase consultation service
• Third party peer review.
• 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 developing new opportunities.

What you will be responsible for:

• Delivery of technically excellent Fire Engineering design on a number of projects
• Early-stage strategic input to design
• Detailed design to construction status information and beyond into Post Occupancy Evaluation
• Site inspections and reporting throughout construction

What skills and attributes are we looking for?

• BSc/ BEng/ MSc/ MEng or equivalent
• Experienced working in a fire engineering consultancy, delivering fire strategy and fire safety consultancy services
• Passion and talent for fire engineering
• A confident, outgoing, and fun person who enjoys being part of a busy team
• An articulate communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills
• A self-starter who is tenacious in concluding tasks
• Someone with drive, ambition, and enjoys change and variety

What we can offer you:

• Inspiring and supportive colleagues
• Reward for progression and hard work
• An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well as your technical skills
• Excellent health benefits
• 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
• An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!)
• An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday)
• 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 applications individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of the physical or neurodiverse conditions. We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment, and employment experience so we ask that you make us aware of any 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 has 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.