Senior Fire Engineer

Description:

Senior Fire Engineer – London (Hybrid) | Fire Strategy & Fire Safety Engineering Careers

Location: London (Hybrid — 2–3 days in office) Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience + benefits package Hours: Full-time, flexible working

Several years ago, this fire engineering consultancy consisted of a handful of engineers with a shared frustration: too many fire safety careers are built on rigid hierarchies, endless overtime, and compliance-box-ticking rather than engineering judgement. And they decided to build something different.

Today that team has grown nearly fourfold, split across two fast-scaling offices, with plans to open in further UK cities and launch further divisions in the coming months. Working out of London allows exposure to a genuinely varied stock of high-profile, complex projects. With growth still very much underway, this is a genuinely rare point to join at senior level. Allowing for technical ownership and real influence over how the team and its standards take shape, rather than stepping into a structure that's already fixed.

The role

We're looking for a Senior Fire Engineer to take technical ownership of projects and play a leading role as this team continues to grow. You'll provide high-quality fire engineering input for clients, guide and develop less experienced engineers, and be a genuine driving force behind how the practice's technical standards and client relationships evolve.

What you'll actually be doing:

* Taking full technical ownership of projects, from concept through to completion

* Managing client relationships directly and coordinating with the wider project and consultant team

* Providing line management, mentoring and structured support to engineers at all levels

* Preparing fee proposals and supporting commercial growth, estimating costs, scoping resource, and helping win new work

* Undertaking expert witness duties where required

* Playing an active role in recruitment and shaping the team as it scales

* Working closely with the leadership team on workload planning and resourcing decisions

* Representing the practice within the wider fire safety community: industry forums, committees, technical contributions, and in time, conference or publication work

What we're looking for

* A BSc, BEng or higher in fire engineering or a closely related engineering discipline

* A minimum of 4 years' fire engineering experience, UK experience desirable

* AIFireE (Associate, Institution of Fire Engineers), with support to progress further

* Strong commercial awareness: genuinely comfortable owning budgets, proposals and client relationships, not just technical delivery

* An upbeat, proactive personality with strong integrity and excellent communication skills

* Comfortable working across a multidisciplinary project team

* Bluebeam or similar software experience is a bonus

What you'll get

* Hybrid working: typically 2–3 days in the office, with flexibility around how that works for you

* A real training budget: dedicated annual training allowance per person, plus a personal growth plan agreed directly with your line manager, not a generic CPD checklist

* One of the best holiday/working splits in the industry, scaling with your experience

* Private medical insurance, company bonus scheme, enhanced pension, life assurance, and an Employee Assistance Programme

* Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

* Professional membership subscriptions paid for you

* An operations team behind the scenes handling the admin, travel and training logistics, so you can focus on the engineering and your team

* Regular company social events and a genuinely tight-knit, growing team culture

Why now

Joining a business at this stage of its growth as a senior hire is rare. You'd be shaping technical standards, mentoring structures and client relationships as the practice scales, with a genuine say in how the team looks in a few years' time, rather than inheriting someone else's rigid style. If you're ready to lead rather than just deliver, this is a great time to get onboard