Senior Fire Engineer

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.