Principal Fire Engineer

Amentum is currently recruiting for Principal Fire Engineer to join our Energy business.

• Newcastle
• Glasgow
• Warrington
• Gloucester
• Bristol
• Knutsford

• Development of fire safety strategies to support compliance with the Building Regulations and relevant fire safety legislation, including design solutions encompassing means and escape, detection and alarm, structural fire protection, suppression, and firefighting access/facilities for the fire and rescue service in accordance with recognised prescriptive good practice and/or fire engineering principles.
• Undertaking conventional fire assessments / fire risk to support compliance with fire safety legislation and/or the development of fire safety strategies, and to support ALARP demonstrations where non‑compliances exist.
• 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.

• 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).

• £40,941 per year – estimated.
• Competitive package including free single medical cover and digital GP service, family‑friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, and reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.
• Collectively programme: matched‑funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.