
Associate Director - Fire Engineering
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Associate Director - Fire Engineering
- Help ensure that fire safety is embedded into the heart of design, protecting lives, assets, and the environment.
- Collaborate with clients, architects, contractors, and local authorities to deliver practical and compliant fire engineering solutions.
- Stay ahead of evolving fire codes, technologies, and global best practices.
- Assist in developing fire safety strategies for new and existing buildings aligned with standards like NFPA, BS 9999, and IBC.
- Carry out fire risk assessments, egress and smoke control studies, and fire modelling (FDS, PyroSim, Pathfinder).
- Support fire design integration across disciplines including MEP, structural, and architectural.
- Contribute to site inspections, meetings, and evaluations of fire protection systems such as sprinklers, alarms, and smoke management.
- Compliance with Health & Safety requirements, practices and procedures.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Fire Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Strong knowledge and experience of fire safety codes and standards (NFPA, BS, IBC, local building codes).
- Experience with fire modeling software (e.g., PyroSim, FDS, Pathfinder).
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) or equivalent professional registration.
- Confident liaising with new and existing clients and an ability to build a good rapport with other parts of our inter-disciplinary practice, and with external design teams.
- Robust problem solving skills, taking accountability for assigned work.
- Previous experience writing and presenting reports along with client interaction and work winning.
- The ability to lead a sub-team, focused on delivery of high quality design output.
- Agile working.
- Career and Professional Development.
- Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities.
- 26 days' annual leave + Bank Holidays + option to buy up to 5 days' additional leave.
- Private healthcare, life assurance and healthcare cash plan.
- Stakeholder pension.
- Professional subscriptions.
- Employee Discount Scheme.
- Eyecare Scheme.
- Wellbeing support and Employee Assistance Programme.