Fire Assessor Senior Consultant

Senior Fire Safety Consultant Bristol | Hybrid
£DOE
Permanent | Full-time

Join a specialist engineering consultancy and take on a senior fire engineering role supporting complex safety-critical environments while helping develop a growing Fire Engineering and Assessment capability.

You will lead and deliver fire strategies, fire risk assessments and design-stage consultancy across technically demanding projects. Working within a consultancy environment, the role combines hands-on technical work with client engagement, design review and support for more junior members of the team.

There is an established order book of fire assessment work so you will be joining with live projects to support from the outset.

What you will be doing
Develop fire safety strategies, technical reports, notes and supporting documentation

Carry out fire risk assessments and contribute to design-stage fire safety reviews

Assess fire safety risks and develop practical engineering solutions

Undertake fire engineering analysis including smoke modelling, evacuation modelling and temperature spread calculations

Support assessments relating to compartmentation plus passive and active fire protection

Work directly with clients, design teams and relevant regulatory stakeholders

Use fire modelling software to support fire dynamics assessments and simulations

Help develop the consultancy's wider Fire Engineering and Assessment service

Support junior team members and specialist associates working across existing projects

What we are looking for You will need:

A degree in Fire Safety Engineering, Fire Protection Technologies or a related discipline

Experience carrying out fire risk assessments

Experience developing fire strategies

Experience working within safety-critical environments

Strong communication skills with the confidence to work with clients, technical teams and regulatory stakeholders

Experience in any of the following would be useful:

Fire engineering consultancy

Fire modelling software

Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR)

Critical National Infrastructure environments

Supporting or developing junior engineers and consultants

Security requirements Due to the nature of the work applicants must be sole UK nationals.

You must also be able to satisfy the requirements for UK National Security Vetting and complete the necessary pre-employment screening.

The wider package includes:

Annual performance-related bonus

25 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Additional loyalty leave

Matched pension contributions of up to 8% from day one

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Income protection

Targeted professional development

Paid professional membership fees

Cycle to work scheme

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

Family-friendly policies

Working pattern The role is based in Bristol with a flexible hybrid working arrangement combining office work, client-site activity and home working.

Apply If you have a background in fire engineering or fire safety assessment and want to take on a senior consultancy role across complex safety-critical projects, apply with your CV for consideration.

Due to the nature of work at our client’s site, these vacancies are only open to British nationals.

This is a permanent role