Senior Fire Engineer

Foster + Partners

Senior Fire Safety Engineer

Battersea, South West London

Foster + Partners, the international integrated design practice have excellent opportunities for experienced, Senior Fire Engineers to join our Fire Safety team within our Technical Design Group.

The Fire Safety Team is a fire safety, engineering and science team which provides fire safety leadership and advice cross-functionally within Foster + Partners. The team’s mission is to assist in the delivery of adequate and inclusive fire safety – by constantly learning, championing, and driving evidence-based fire safety design and science. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing multi-disciplinary internal team, with opportunities to inform and drive team development.

Qualities and skills required

• Evidence of strong professional conduct; including ethical working under pressure.
• Evidence of making evidence-based decisions and recommendations within an ambiguous and fast-moving context.
• Proven ability to apply rigorous and accurate engineering approaches to safety. For example, qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, probabilistic and deterministic analysis.
• Evidence of the ability to sensitively balance complex and interrelated objectives. For example, cost, programme, fire safety, carbon, quality, and constructability.
• Proven ability to foster and maintain strong cooperative relationships across a complex organisational landscape.
• Willingness to nurture knowledge of other disciplines related to fire safety and fire engineering.
• Good interpersonal skills, proven ability to interact with and adapt to a diverse range of people, and the ability to work well in a team.
• Chartered Engineer with a relevant professional engineering institution.
• Over 5 years of experience in fire engineering or related discipline role.
• Experience of structural fire engineering, façade fire engineering, and/or fire experimentation.
• Experience in the use of advanced engineering methods. For example, CFD-based modelling, FEA analysis, quantitative probabilistic/reliability analysis.
• Experience with the use of Matlab, Python, R, or similar, to carry out data analysis, automation, and/or model development.
• Experience with BIM, Rhino, Grasshopper or similar to carry out parametric design and multi-objective optimisation.
• Experience with a range of international regulatory and guidance frameworks (e.g. US, China, UAE).
• Demonstrated good network with the fire science, fire engineering, and wider community.

You must be able to commute to Battersea where the position will be based. If you wish to be considered for the role, please apply with an up to date CV.