Senior Fire Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 18, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 11, 2026.
Role: Senior Fire Engineer
Location: Manchester or London
Salary: Competitive salary + fantastic benefits
Bureau Veritas is looking for an experienced Senior Fire Engineer to join our team of industry leading experts, providing high quality technical guidance and innovative solutions for a diverse client base.
The role will involve providing comprehensive fire engineering services throughout all stages of building design, construction and operation ensuring the current standards and codes of practice are used throughout the project lifecycle.
Responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain excellent industry relationships and information on fire engineering projects and opportunities.
- Provide technical guidance and expertise into key areas within proposals and tenders.
- Take responsibility for managing fire engineering projects across variety of sectors, including project team, progress and budget.
- Liaise with and maintain good relations with clients, design teams and approval bodies.
- Attend meetings where required, updating project status and adjusting delivery models and schedules where appropriate.
- Review project technical information to prepare fire strategies and provide on-going support from initial concept through to final completion.
- Undertake fire engineering analysis (e.g. radiation, smoke modelling, structural etc.) and third party reviews.
- Provision of design and construction support including site visits where required.
- Develop, analyse, review and issue reports.
Candidate requirements include:
- Degree in Fire Engineering or equivalent engineering qualification. A Masters in Fire Engineering or Engineering will be an advantage
- Demonstrable fire engineering experience
- Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartered status (e.g. Interim Registration with Engineer Council).
- Experience of site visits/inspection for existing buildings and during construction
- Experience of structural fire engineering would be of benefit.
- Effective communication skills
- Customer focused and strong interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and good report writing skills
- Proficiency in the use of standard IT applications (e.g. Word, Excel)
- Strives to improve performance and uses innovative methods to get there
Desirable:
Exposure to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling, including smoke movement and fire dynamics analysis, would be beneficial but is not essential.
Bureau Veritas can offer:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays with the option to buy or sell 5 holidays, plus an option to carry over 5 days
- Combined pension contributions of up to 12%
- Share in Success company bonus scheme - We recognise that overall business success is due to the contribution made by every employee
- Annual Salary review
- Flexible benefits scheme, to suit what is important to you including Life Cover, Private health care, Dental Care, GymFlex, Techscheme, Enhanced Maternity/Paternity policy, Give as You Earn scheme & Travel Insurance
- Health and Wellbeing Support through; Mental Health First aiders, Employee Assistance programme & Smart Health services
- Excellent career development and progression opportunities
- The opportunity to lead on a variety of large, challenging and exciting projects for high profile clients, including some of the world’s most recognised brands; and
- A long list of awards recognition including Top Employer seven years in a row and continued success in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards.
Why Join Us?
Our people are at the heart of everything we do, which is why we have worked hard to create a supportive and engaging culture, where individuals are given the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
At Bureau Veritas you can benefit from a busy and varied client facing environment, working with market leaders across a wide range of sectors including but not limited to:
Building Control, Food manufacturing, Chemical manufacturing, Banking, Retail, Logistics, Power and Utilities including Nuclear, Automotive, Public Sector, Mobile Plant, Emergency Services, Transport and Construction.
We pride ourselves on our partnership approach, which means you will be encouraged to develop strong client relationships - combining technical know-how with service excellence to exceed your clients’ expectations.