Principal Fire Engineer

Overview

Join as our new Principal Fire Engineer. This is a hybrid role that can be based in our Edinburgh, Manchester, Bath, Leeds, or London office.

Our fire engineering team has a global reach with offices in the UK, Dubai, and Riyadh. We work across all sectors, delivering new builds, refurbishments, technical services, and expert witness work, and we champion industry best practice through in‑house computational expertise and close collaboration with architects.

Key Duties

• Lead and project‑manage fire engineering projects.
• Inform and support the building design aspirations, functionality and architectural form throughout the design process.
• Take ownership of client care and general consultancy, including financial performance, invoicing and monitoring.
• Represent Buro Happold Fire Engineering at design team meetings, both internal and external.
• Identify and specify appropriate fixed fire protection syste...