Location: London, Edinburgh, Bath, Manchester
Type of Contract: Permanent
Area of Expertise: Specialist Consulting
Region: UK
Office / Project Location: Bath, Edinburgh, London, Manchester
About Us:
Vertical Recruitment is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Structural Fire Engineer to join a dynamic Fire Engineering team. With offices in London, Edinburgh, Bath, and Manchester, we offer an exciting opportunity for a talented professional to contribute to exciting and complex building projects.
Key Duties:
As a Senior Structural Fire Engineer, you will:
- Collaborate with structural engineers on intricate and challenging buildings to ensure life safety and optimize protection.
- Provide input to design aspirations, functionality, and architectural form.
- Project manage small to medium structural fire engineering projects.
- Assume responsibility for the financial performance of small to medium-scale projects.
- Work with Associates and Associate Directors to prepare fee proposals and contribute to work-winning activities.
- Develop, with support, into a lead structural fire engineer on small to medium-scale projects.
- Manage client care and general consultancy on both small- and large-scale projects.
- Mentor junior engineers on their career path.
- Actively promote the department and engage in the development of group strategy.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Master’s degree or higher in Structural Engineering or Structural Fire Engineering.
- Chartered engineer status or close to achieving it.
- Experience in an engineering consultancy environment.
- Experience in managing small to medium-scale structural or structural fire engineering projects.
- Experience in writing and reviewing performance-based engineering reports.
- Excellent consultancy skills, strong communication abilities, and experience in dealing with complex situations, negotiation, and understanding the differing needs of clients and stakeholder groups.
- Confident, proactive character, able to take the lead in challenging situations and guide less experienced engineers.
Advantageous Exposure:
- Experience in designing and assessing current and historic structures at ambient temperatures and in fire.
- Experience in undertaking and supervising fire and heat transfer assessments followed by structural modeling at elevated temperatures.
- Experience in using and checking structural fire engineering FEM packages like SAFIR, VULCAN, or similar.
- Experience in undertaking and supervising different forms of fire modeling, including but not limited to natural fires, localized fires, and CFD.
What They Offer:
Hybrid working arrangements.
Discretionary annual bonus.
Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
International working and flexible holiday.
3 pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
Company Pension Scheme.
Life Assurance and Income Protection.
Professional subscriptions.
London Office
95 Mortimer Street, London W1W 7GB
Call: 020 3758 4874
Manchester Office
Call: 0161 669 4716
New York Office
100 Church Street, Suite 800, New York, NY 10007
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