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 across more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving complex challenges together. The Senior 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 within Arcadis.

The role focuses mainly on the building sector, with occasional opportunities to contribute to rail and other multidisciplinary projects reflecting Arcadis’ broad service offering. Key responsibilities include fire engineering design, project delivery within time and cost budgets, and collaboration with clients, architects, project managers, contractors, subcontractors, and authorities to provide practical and compliant fire engineering advice and solutions.

Typical activities include developing Fire Safety Strategy reports for new and existing buildings, conducting Means of Escape analysis (including evacuation time calculations, escape route assessments, and evacuation strategy development), and applying UK Fire Safety Regulations and Standards such as Approved Document B, BS 9999, BS 7974, BS 9991, BB100, and HTM 05. The role also requires staying current with emerging regulations and legislation.

Additional responsibilities involve understanding fire safety legislation and standards relevant to rail projects, including London Underground and Network Rail standards, risk-based interpretation of fire safety documents, third-party review and design verification, attending internal and external design team meetings, supporting Fire Risk Assessment reports, leading fire projects and teams, assisting in bidding and fee proposal development, and mentoring junior staff and graduates.

This position offers career progression opportunities towards senior leadership and director roles within Arcadis.

Experience
Recent demonstrable experience working across multiple sectors in a technical fire safety engineering environment within a client-focused setting. Proven ability to apply fire safety engineering skills effectively. Experience working in medium to large multidisciplinary environments. Previous involvement in report writing, presentations, and client/internal communications. Confidence in building and maintaining strong client relationships. Membership or progress towards membership with relevant professional institutions such as IFE, CABE, RICS, IET, CIOB.

About you
Robust problem-solving skills with accountability for assigned tasks. Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders including clients, architects, and contractors. Motivated to mentor and support junior staff and contribute to team development. Adaptable to working on a range of projects and sectors including building and rail.

Qualifications
Professional membership or working towards membership with relevant institutions is essential. Additional desirable skills include knowledge of hazard identification, ALARP principles, PAS 9980, EWS1 forms, Façade Engineering, the Building Safety Act 2022, fire risk assessment principles, fire dynamics, heat transfer, smoke behaviour in enclosed environments (especially underground and tunnels), active and passive fire protection systems, and fire modelling simulation tools such as CFAST, FDS, Pyrosim, and SMARTFIRE.