Overview
In this technical role, you will deliver and review FRAEW and EWS1 assessments for residential, high-rise, and mixed-use buildings, ensuring safe external wall performance and remediation approaches. You’ll work with a small team of Chartered professionals to maintain quality and expand the consultancy’s FRAEW/EWS1 capability. The position offers a strong pipeline of work and a focus on assessment, sign-off, and technical advisory rather than management. You will contribute to shaping remediation strategies and client-facing documentation, while advancing your Chartered status. This is a growth-focused opportunity within a long-established practice affiliated with leading safety bodies.
Pay / Benefits
- Real hybrid working: 1 day in the London office and 4 days home or site
- 37.5 hour working week
- Private healthcare
- Professional development and training funding
- Support towards Chartered status and ongoing professional development
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + 5 day rollover
Responsibilities
- Deliver and technically review FRAEW assessments across a range of buildings
- Act as competent professional/signatory for EWS1 assessments where qualified
- Review external wall construction, materials, and fire performance
- Conduct site inspections and intrusive investigations
- Provide technical remediation recommendations and risk mitigation
- Produce clear, technically robust reports and documentation
- Offer technical guidance to clients, colleagues, and project teams
- Peer review and quality assure external wall assessments within the team
- Support cladding remediation programmes from assessment to delivery
- Contribute to the development of FRAEW and EWS1 offerings as workload grows
Key requirements
- Chartered Engineer status via Engineering Council or equivalent
- Experience undertaking and signing EWS1 and/or FRAEW/PAS 9980 assessments
- Strong technical experience with façade systems and fire performance
- Experience assessing existing external wall systems on relevant buildings
- Site inspections and intrusive investigation experience
- Understanding of external wall remediation and fire safety risks
- Ability to apply professional judgement to complex matters
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to explain findings clearly
- Technically focused, able to work independently and take responsibility
- Strong written communication
- Clear verbal communication
- Professional judgment
- Façade systems
- External wall construction
- Fire performance assessment
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