Fire Safety Engineer

Your Impact:

We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.  We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities. 

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.  

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations. 

About the Opportunity

We are currently recruiting for a Fire Safety Engineer to join our Nuclear Power Engineering and Technical Services Business. The role can be based from our Knutsford, Newcastle or Birchwood offices.

Working in both client facing and internal roles we are delivering major programme and project management capabilities throughout the project lifecycle. We are driving to deliver safe, high quality and to time solutions by thinking innovatively and working collaboratively.

The role will be responsible for the following:

• Develop design solutions encompassing evacuation plans, detection, suppression, alarms, compartmentalisation, and firefighting access/facilities in accordance with industry best practice, policies and procedures whilst considering operational experience and lessons learnt to ensure a robust, low cost, high-quality design.
• Develop robust plans for fire protection systems design and ensure on time delivery, cost and quality is achieved for all project deliverables to align with regular progress reporting.
• Prepare and coordinates assessment and analysis delivery for projects, interfacing with engineering, project management, project controls and document management functions.
• Assist nuclear safety case assurance though project, programme and corporate requirements
• Provide leadership, mentoring and development to junior fire safety engineers and other adjacent disciplines in a project environment 

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience in relevant discipline 
• Chartered, or working towards chartership status with the IFE
• Experience with the design of suppression, compartmentalisation, smoke control, fire barriers, fire alarms and detection systems.
• Experience of application and use of relevant codes (e.g. BS 9999 and BS 9990)
• Understanding of UK nuclear site licensing, safety assessment principles, regulatory guidance on safety assessment and nuclear Site Licence Conditions
• Experience interacting with regulators e.g. ONR or HSE
• Experience in scoping and interpreting the results of fire modelling (CFAST or similar)
• Demonstrable team leadership and mentoring experience.
• Experience of nuclear fire safety assessment, principally nuclear safety assessment and conventional fire safety assessment and management. 

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.  

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centered on inclusion and diversity. 

We partner with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility, please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role. 

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team. 

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