Associate Fire Engineer

Company: Buro Happold
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Location: Leeds
Job Description:

Associate Fire Engineer

Join our fire engineering team on a hybrid role based in London, Leeds, Manchester, Bath, or Edinburgh. We work across the UK, Dubai, and Riyadh, delivering global fire engineering expertise to projects worldwide.

Key Duties

  • Lead fire engineering projects, supporting design aspirations, functionality and architecture throughout development.
  • Provide client care and consultancy on projects.
  • Manage the financial performance of projects, including invoicing and monitoring.
  • Represent Buro Happold Fire Engineering at design team meetings, both internal and external.
  • Identify and specify appropriate fixed fire protection systems, including detection and suppression.
  • Carry out and review fire engineering calculations – smoke modelling and evacuation analysis from hand calculations to 3‑D CFD (previous CFD experience welcome but not essential).
  • Support development of junior team members, as mentor or line manager.

Qualifications

  • Experience leading fire engineering on major projects.
  • Higher education qualification in engineering or a fire safety related subject.
  • Demonstrable experience delivering fire and life safety designs for UK projects.
  • Track record of obtaining agreement for prescriptive and performance‑based solutions from approving authorities.
  • Strong people‑management skills; experience in a line‑management context.
  • Excellent commercial and project‑management skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangements.
  • Competitive salary and benefits, including life assurance and income protection.
  • 25 days holiday with flexible arrangements and birthday off.
  • Generous pension scheme and flexible benefits such as cycle, dental, optical, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
  • Enhanced parental leave policies.
  • 3 pm finish on the last Friday of each month.
  • Commitment to continuous development and support for professional memberships.
  • Wellbeing programme and supportive inclusive environment.
  • International culture with opportunities across our global practice.

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Posted: May 31st, 2026