Senior Fire Safety Engineer in Warrington, Cheshire

Our top client is looking for a Senior Fire Safety Engineer to join their team on a contract basis in Warrington

Our Client has a requirement for a Senior Fire Safety Engineer, who will be required to work on a contract basis in Warrignton.

This role may require travel to Knutsford / Gloucester / Newcastle / Glasgow (travel expenses will be covered)

Role Purpose:

• Development of fire safety strategies to support compliance with the Building Regulations and relevant fire safety legislation and undertaking of conventional fire assessments
• Development of fire safety strategies to support compliance with the Building Regulations and relevant fire safety legislation. This includes the development of design solutions encompassing provisions for 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 assessments 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
• Development of the fire strategy fire safety management arrangements and procedures to support operational management arrangements
• Provision of technical support to architects on building layouts and system designers with the selection and performance setting of fire protection systems and arrangements
• Provision of fire safety support to the various projects / programmes with ad-hoc technical queries
• Provision of fire safety support to technical design reviews and providing the required inputs to the main project technical review gates
• Provision of support to Nuclear fire safety assessments and the development of nuclear fire safety cases to support a range of industries

Experience / Skills / Knowledge / Qualifications:

• 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 (minimum of 3 years experience for this role)
• 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:

• Competitive Rate
• 6 month contract
• Hybrid role

Company information

At First Recruitment Group we understand just how important it is to secure the right people. That is why our Recruitment Consultants always take the time to understand requirements in detail and offer sound advice to both clients and candidates.  We actively recruit at all levels and this is a superb opportunity for a Senior Fire Safety Engineer looking for new employment.

As part of putting people first, we strive to be an equal opportunities employer and we are always looking to increase the diversity of our workforce, working closely with our clients to ensure everyone is included.

Voceer presents this job opportunity for First Recruitment Group, a 50 person sized company who are categorized as a Recruitment Agency.

This position is being managed by First Recruitment Group, a reputable recruitment agency known for placing candidates in desirable positions.

All round workforce agency covering Recruitment, Payroll and Workforce Management. We are a global recruitment agency specialising in the Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Power, Water, Rail, Construction, Technology, Aerospace & Defence, Chemicals and Corporate sectors. Our specialist consultants help clients to recruit high quality candidates into temporary, contract and permanent roles at all levels. We proudly support a partnership culture by collaborating and adding value to build lasting client and candidate relationships.

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