Associate Fire Engineer

Job Description

Job Title
Associate Fire Engineer

Location
Multiple UK locations

Salary
Competitive salary, dependent on experience

Employment Type
Permanent

Job Overview
Associate Fire Engineer job available across multiple UK locations, joining a technically focused fire engineering team delivering projects in the UK and internationally. This position suits an experienced fire engineering professional with consultancy experience, providing technical leadership across residential, commercial, education, healthcare, transport and infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include design reviews, quality assurance, project delivery, mentoring and supporting consistent technical standards.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Lead technical delivery across multiple fire engineering projects

  • Oversee quality assurance and chair design reviews

  • Mentor engineers and graduates across the team

  • Manage technical and commercial project requirements

  • Develop technical initiatives and support research activities

You will also maintain client relationships and contribute to standardising project processes, tools and technical outputs across the wider team.

Skills & Experience Required

  • MSc or equivalent qualification in Fire Engineering

  • Significant fire engineering or building services consultancy experience

  • Strong knowledge of UK building regulations

  • Understanding of RIBA project stages

  • Chartered Engineer status or actively progressing towards CEng

You will need strong technical writing, communication and problem-solving skills, alongside experience mentoring and supporting junior engineers.

Salary & Benefits

  • Annual bonus and 38 days annual leave

  • Hybrid and flexible working options

  • Enhanced company pension

  • Private medical insurance

  • Professional membership and CPD support

Annual leave includes the option to buy or sell additional days.

About Hunter Dunning
Hunter Dunning is a specialist property and built environment recruitment consultancy established in 2004, focused on quality and long-term partnerships in the UK and Ireland property and construction market. We specialise in full lifecycle property recruitment, covering architecture, interior design, surveying, land and planning, fire safety and wider construction roles.

Apply Section
If you meet the criteria above, send us your CV and portfolio. We receive a large number of applications so if you do not hear back within 7 days consider your application unsuccessful this time. We will keep a copy of your details on file for future vacancies. All applications are handled in strict confidence.

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