Description:
Want to work with the most sought-after minds and most-talked about projects? Your skills and team leadership experience in Structural Fire Engineering might just make you our new Structural Fire Engineer Leader.
Key Duties:
- Drive market awareness, sales pipeline, and business development activities for Structural Fire Engineering propositions and capabilities.
- Take a lead role in project delivery for our most complex engagements, ensuring successful outcomes, client satisfaction and an ongoing client relationship.
- Inspire, motivate, and support the professional development and well-being of team members by prioritising their growth and fostering an inclusive work environment.
- As a key member of the UK Fire Engineering senior leadership team, you will contribute to the overall success of the team, across strategy, service, propositions, and people.
- Own the “Technical” competence and capability development for the team embedding technical skills within the Structural Fire Engineering team.
- Working with structural engineers on exciting and complex buildings to ensure life safety and optimise protection.
- Informing and supporting design aspirations, functionality and architectural form.
- Representing Buro Happold at design team meetings, both internally and externally.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Masters degree or higher in Structural Engineering or Structural Fire Engineering.
- Being a chartered engineer or being close to achieving it.
- Experience in leading structural fire engineering teams in an engineering consultancy environment.
- Experience in managing structural fire engineering projects.
- Experience in designing and assessing current and historic structures at ambient temperatures and in fire.
- Experience in undertaking and supervising fire and heat transfer assessments followed by structural modelling at elevated temperatures.
- Experience in using and checking of structural fire engineering FEM packages like SAFIR, VULCAN or similar.
- Experience in writing and reviewing performance-based engineering reports.
- Excellent consultancy skills, good communication abilities and the experience to deal with complex situations, negotiation and understanding the differing needs of our clients and within stakeholder groups.
- Confident, proactive character, able to take the lead in challenging situations and guide less experienced engineers.
Exposure to the following areas is advantageous...
- Experience designing for structural fire protection for buildings in the following sectors:
- Sports Stadia and Arenas
- Large commercial developments.
- Experience in international markets