Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 34,000 people in more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving the world’s most complex challenges together.

The Fire Engineer role involves undertaking Fire Safety Engineering work, supporting design projects both within and outside the UK. This primarily includes consultancy-based desktop reviews during initial design stages and supporting the fire safety discipline across Arcadis. The role focuses mainly on the building sector, with occasional opportunities to support other sectors such as rail, reflecting Arcadis’ multidisciplinary nature and broad service offering.

Key responsibilities include fire engineering design across various sectors, delivering projects within time and cost budgets, and collaborating with clients, architects, project managers, contractors, subcontractors, and authorities to provide practical and compliant fire engineering advice and solutions. You will develop Fire Safety Strategy reports for new and existing buildings, conduct Means of Escape analysis including evacuation time calculations, escape route assessments, and evacuation strategy development.

The role requires a strong understanding of UK Fire Safety Regulations and Standards such as Approved Document B (AD B), BS 9999, BS 7974, BS 9991, BB100, HTM 05, as well as rail-specific standards including London Underground fire safety standards and Network Rail standards. You will keep up to date with emerging regulatory changes and apply risk-based interpretations of fire safety documents and international codes such as NFPA standards.

Additional duties include third party review and design verification, attending internal and external design team meetings, supporting Fire Risk Assessment report development for building and rail sectors, leading fire projects and teams at senior levels, assisting in bidding and fee proposal development, and mentoring junior staff and graduates to support their professional growth. Career progression towards senior leadership and director roles is encouraged and supported.

Join Arcadis to make a meaningful impact by delivering sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet and create a lasting legacy through your work.

Experience
Recent demonstrable experience working in a range of sectors within a technical fire safety engineering environment, applying fire safety engineering skills in a client-focused setting. Experience working in medium to large multidisciplinary environments is essential.

Proven ability to work confidently with new and existing clients, building strong relationships internally and externally. Robust problem-solving skills with accountability for assigned tasks. Experience in report writing, presentations, and client/internal communications.

Membership or working towards membership of relevant professional institutions such as IFE, CABE, RICS, IET, CIOB.

About you
Confident and proactive professional with strong interpersonal skills. Able to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple stakeholders. Motivated to mentor and support junior staff and contribute to team success.

Committed to continuous professional development and career progression towards senior leadership roles.

Qualifications
Relevant technical qualifications in fire engineering or related disciplines. Additional desirable skills include:
- Hazard Identification
- Understanding of As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) principles
- Knowledge of PAS 9980, EWS1 forms, and Façade Engineering
- Familiarity with the Building Safety Act 2022
- Fire Risk Assessment principles
- Understanding of fire dynamics, heat transfer, and smoke behaviour, especially in underground and tunnel environments
- Basic knowledge of Active Fire Protection (AFP) and Passive Fire Protection (PFP) systems
- Basic experience with fire modelling simulations using zone models (CFAST) and CFD-based models (FDS, Pyrosim, SMARTFIRE)