Alt Fire

Fire Engineers of All Levels

Company
Location
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/15/2025
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Description

Are you ready for your next challenge in a supportive, flexible, and forward-thinking fire engineering consultancy?


🔥 We're Hiring Talented and Motivated Fire Engineers of All Levels 🔥 Hybrid (Manchester or London) 🔥


We’re a growing practice looking for talented and motivated Fire Engineers of all levels to join our team. You’ll be working on a variety of exciting and complex projects across multiple sectors – including residential, commercial, mixed-use and public buildings – helping to shape safe and sustainable built environments.


📍Location: Hybrid role with flexibility to work from home and attend site/client meetings. Ideally based in or near London or Manchester.


What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Delivering bespoke, pragmatic, timely and responsive services to build long term client relationships.
  • Continuously developing your skills, knowledge, experience and behaviors to grow your competencies.
  • Developing fire strategies for new and existing buildings.
  • Conducting design reviews and developing performance based and code-compliant solutions.
  • Carrying out site inspections and preparing reports.
  • Liaising directly with design teams, clients, and approving authorities.
  • Supporting engineers across the team.
  • Contributing to the wider success of the business beyond project work.


What We’re Looking For

  • A passion for learning, understanding, and applying codes and standards such as Approved Document B, BS 9991, BS 9999, BS 7974, and related guidance.
  • A fundamental understanding of, or desire to learn, performance based fire engineering principles and analysis methods such as CFD, evacuation modeling, radiant heat transfer, fire dynamics, etc.
  • A desire to meet and exceed client and team expectations, build long term relationships, and focus on the long term.
  • An ambition to be a rounded Fire Safety Engineer with an understanding of fire engineering principles, codes and standards, project management, people leadership, commercial management, and the wider community impacts of our work.
  • Chartered, working towards Chartered status, or an aspiration to be Chartered.
  • A collaborative approach and passion for delivering high-quality work.
  • Strong report writing and communication skills – clear, accurate, and concise.
  • A degree in Fire Engineering, Engineering, or a related discipline.


What We Offer

  • Support and encouragement to develop your career and competencies.
  • Competitive salary, based on experience, and six-monthly bonuses.
  • Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
  • Director-led support for CEng/Chartership applications, including dedicated time, workshops and internal reviews.
  • A close-knit, supportive team environment.
  • Exposure to a wide range of projects and opportunities to lead.
  • A 9-day fortnight, giving every employee every second Friday off (26 extra days leave per year).
  • Flexibility and a trusting environment to enable you to manage your life and your work.
  • Attending CPD events and conferences.


Although we are only a small team, we have recently attended:

  • IFE Inaugural International President's Technical Conference, Preston, June 2025;
  • SFPE AI in Fire Engineering Summit, San Francisco, May 2025;
  • SFPE Conference on Fire Safety Engineering Edinburgh, April 2025;
  • European Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Barcelona, October 2024;
  • Structures in Fire Forum, Edinburgh 2025, London 2024, Liverpool 2024, London 2023.


If you’re looking to grow your career in a company that values autonomy, flexibility, and excellence – we’d love to hear from you.


đź“© Apply now, or contact Matthew Eyre or Andrew Willmott via LinkedIn, or email [email protected] for an informal chat.

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