Associate Director Fire Engineer

Associate Director Fire Engineer

Location
Multiple UK locations

Salary
Competitive salary, dependent on experience

Employment Type
Permanent

Job Overview
An Associate Director Fire Engineer opportunity with a fire consultancy delivering fire safety design across residential, commercial, education, healthcare, transport and infrastructure projects. Based across multiple UK locations with hybrid and flexible working, the role suits an experienced fire engineering professional with significant consultancy experience, strong technical leadership skills and knowledge of UK building regulations and RIBA project stages.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across multiple fire engineering projects

• Oversee quality assurance and chair design reviews

• Mentor engineers and graduates across the team

• Standardise project processes, tools and technical outputs

• Manage client relationships and specialised technical initiatives

Skills & Experience Required

• MSc or equivalent qualification in Fire Engineering

• Significant fire or building services consultancy experience

• Strong knowledge of UK building regulations

• Understanding of requirements across RIBA project stages

• Chartered Engineer or actively progressing towards chartership

Strong communication, technical writing and problem–solving skills are required, alongside experience supporting junior engineers and managing technical and commercial project requirements.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Annual bonus and 38 days annual leave

• Hybrid and flexible working

• Enhanced pension and private medical insurance

• Professional memberships, CPD and wellbeing support

About Hunter Dunning
Hunter Dunning is a specialist property and built environment recruitment consultancy established in 2004, focused on quality and long–term partnerships in the UK and Ireland property and construction market. We specialise in full lifecycle property recruitment, covering architecture, interior design, surveying, land and planning, fire safety and wider construction roles.

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If you meet the criteria above, send us your CV and portfolio. We receive a large number of applications so if you do not hear back within 7 days consider your application unsuccessful this time. We will keep a copy of your details on file for future vacancies. All applications are handled in strict confidence.

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