Senior Fire Engineers

Overview

As a Senior Fire Engineer, you will lead performance-based and code-compliant fire strategies for diverse, high-profile projects. You’ll guide design through concept to handover, supervise fire modelling, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. You’ll drive technical excellence on major bids and client-facing workshops, shaping best practice across the Buildings team. This is a chance to influence safe, sustainable urban environments within a values-driven, community-focused firm.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• pension plan
• holidays
• private medical insurance
• discounted gym membership
• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for fire strategies across healthcare, education, commercial, residential, life sciences, and regeneration projects
• Oversee fire and smoke modelling (CFD), evacuation modelling, and smoke control strategies with internal specialists
• Ensure designs meet regulations and Stantec quality processes (ADB, BS 9991, BS 9999, NFPA, EN)
• Act as Technical Lead on major bids and complex multi-disciplinary schemes
• Lead client meetings, workshops, and regulatory consultations; provide clear, commercially aware advice
• Champion fire-safety integration across Architecture, MEP, Structural, Transport, Environmental and Project Management teams
• Support business growth through fee proposals, bid writing, and strategic pursuits
• Mentor junior Fire Engineers and contribute to ongoing technical excellence and knowledge sharing
• Contribute to internal thought leadership within Stantec’s Fire Engineering community
• Promote a culture of collaboration and high standards across the team

Key requirements

• Experience producing fire strategies for complex buildings
• Proficiency in FDS, PyroSim, Pathfinder or similar modelling tools
• Strong communication skills for presenting technical matters to clients
• Experience in a consultancy environment on multidisciplinary projects
• Proactive, collaborative mindset aligned with company values
• Degree in Fire Engineering or related discipline (MEP, Structural, Building Services with fire specialism)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or working towards with IFE or equivalent

• strong communication and presentation abilities
• client-facing relationship building
• mentoring and leadership
• fire modelling tools (FDS, PyroSim, Pathfinder)
• performance-based design and code-compliant strategies
• evacuation modelling and smoke control

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