Principal Fire Engineer
Amentum
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Glasgow • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Development of fire safety strategies to support compliance with the Building Regulations and relevant fire safety legislation.
- Undertaking conventional fire assessments / fire risk assessments to support compliance with fire safety legislation and/or the development of fire safety strategies.
- Undertaking fire modelling with the use of empirical hand calculations and software packages such as CFAST and/or Computational Fluid Dynamics in support of fire safety strategies
Requirements
- STEM degree qualified (Desirable not essential)
- Membership with a recognised institution (Institution of fire engineers – Desirable not essential)
- Fire safety engineering experience, ideally covering most of the key responsibilities listed above
- Experience of application and use of relevant prescriptive codes (e.g. ADB, BS 9999 etc)
- Experience of undertaking fire modelling in support of the provision of performance based fire safety engineered solutions (Desirable not essential)
Benefits
- free single medical cover and digital GP service
- family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay
- free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes
- reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships
- matched-funding
- paid volunteering time
- charitable donations
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
fire safety strategiesfire assessmentsfire risk assessmentsfire modellingempirical hand calculationsCFASTComputational Fluid Dynamicsperformance based fire safety engineeringprescriptive codesfire safety engineering
Certifications
STEM degreemembership with a recognised institutionInstitution of fire engineers