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About the Role

Arcadis is seeking a Fire Safety Engineer to undertake Fire Safety Engineering work, supporting design projects within and outside the UK. This role primarily involves consultancy-based desktop reviews of design projects in their initial stages and supporting the fire safety discipline.

Responsibilities

Fire engineering design experience.
Work in a range of sectors.
Support the delivery of projects and project work within time and cost budgets.
Collaborate and coordinate with clients, architects, project management, contractors, subcontractors and authorities to deliver practical and compliant fire engineering advice and/or solutions.
Development of Fire Safety Strategy reports (new and existing buildings).
Means of Escape analysis (including calculations of evacuation times; escape routes and exits widths; assessment of travel distances; development and assessment of evacuation strategy plans).
Assessment and understanding of the main UK Fire Safety Regulations and Standards applied to buildings, such as Approved Document B (AD B), BS 9999, BS 7974, BS 9991, BB100, HTM 05 etc.
Keeping up to date with emerging changes in regulations and legislation.
Assessment and understanding of the main British fire safety legislation and standards applied to rail projects, such as the London Underground fire safety standards, the Network Rail standards, e.g., LUL – S1371, Railway Safety Principles and Guidance (RSPG), BS 9992.
Risk Based Interpretation and Application of these fire safety documents as well as other Codes of Practice such as international documents such as NFPA standards (e.g., NFPA 101, NFPA 130).
Third Party Review/Design Verification.
Attendance of internal design team meetings.
Attendance of external design team meetings with clients with initial supervision.
Supporting on the development of Fire Risk Assessment reports for both, the building and rail sectors.
Leading fire projects and project teams (senior level and above).
Assisting in the bidding/pursuits processes and developing fee proposals.
Mentoring, developing, supporting and line managing junior staff and graduates to support their professional growth.
Progression / career development to next level / promotion and career path development to move towards Director and Senior Leadership roles.

Requirements

Recent demonstrable experience of working in a range of sectors and in a technical fire safety engineering environment and the application of fire safety engineering skills as described above within a client focused environment.
Confidence in working with new and existing clients and an ability to build good rapport and relationships with those externally and internally.
Robust problem-solving skills and ability to take accountability for assigned work and tasks.
Previous experience in writing reports and presentations along with client and internal communications and interactions.
Experience in working in a medium to large, multi-disciplinary environment.
Membership with the relevant professional institutions such as IFE, CABE, RICS, IET, CIOB etc. or working towards relevant professional membership.

Skills

Hazard Identification
As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) understanding
Knowledge of PAS 9980, EWS1 forms and Façade Engineering
The Building Safety Act 2022
Fire Risk Assessment principles
Understanding of fire dynamics, heat transfer and smoke behaviour principles in enclosed environments (particularly in undergrounds and tunnels)
Basic understanding on Active Fire Protection (AFP) systems and Passive Fire Protection (PFP) measures
Basic knowledge on fire modelling simulation (using zone models such as CFAST and CFD-based models such as FDS, Pyrosim, SMARTFIRE)

Experience Level

senior level and above

About the Company

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.
We believe everyone's contribution matters.
We are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet.
Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Equal Opportunity

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions.
Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.
We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race.
A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.