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About the Role
AECOM is seeking a Principal Fire Engineer to join our Fire Team. This consultancy role requires proven experience across various sectors and technical fire engineering applications in a client-focused environment. In this role, you will work closely with office leads to oversee and develop a local team, providing guidance and mentorship with support from senior staff. This position is ideal for an established consultant seeking to advance their career or someone eager to expand their knowledge and design skills within a reputable and well-established fire safety consultancy.
Responsibilities
- Deliver projects from inception through to completion with minimal senior oversight, including CFD modelling, evacuation modelling, and other analytical fire engineering.
- Manage design projects, preparing and reviewing the work of others.
- Develop approaches to solve new problems using modifications of standard procedures or methods.
- Participate in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.
- Lead the development of accurate cost estimates for technical efforts.
- Lead the Performance & Review process for junior engineers by setting and monitoring SMART goals.
- Support and mentor less experienced staff on the road to Chartership.
Requirements
- Relevant degree or professional qualification.
- Chartered status (CEng) in Fire Engineering or a related discipline is essential.
- Work experience within a similar consultancy or other relevant business.
- Demonstrable experience in a range of sectors and technical fire engineering applications, with a particular focus on UK regulations and markets.
- Demonstrable experience managing the fire engineering aspects of small to medium sized design projects within agreed timescales and budgets.
- Experience providing guidance to entry level fire engineers.
- Experience preparing fee proposals and task variations for fire engineering activities.
- Demonstrable experience of leading and actively supervising a team of more junior engineers with regards to people and projects.
- A clear work history and proof of professional development and learning.
Skills
- CFD modelling
- Evacuation modelling
- Analytical fire engineering
- Project management
- Cost estimation
- Mentoring
- Team leadership
Location
- UK - Manchester, Level 4 - 100 Emban
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Principal
Education Level
- Relevant degree or professional qualification
- Chartered status (CEng) in Fire Engineering or a related discipline
Benefits
- Career development opportunities
- Flexible hybrid working model
- Technical practice networks
- AECOM University
- Volunteering days
- Compensation, benefits and well-being programs
About the Company
- AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management.
- On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.
- Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.
- AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025.
- We have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options.
- We champion integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and a pioneering mindset in a dynamic environment.
- We foster a safe and respectful workplace where everyone is invited to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
- We are the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
- Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.
Equal Opportunity
- AECOM values everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.