jensenhughes · Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Birmingham, England, United Kingdom · London, England, United Kingdom · Manchester, England, United Kingdom
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Company Overview</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Throughout our worldwide network of experts, clients and communities, we are renowned for our leadership in fire protection engineering – a legacy of responsibility we have proudly upheld since 1939. Today, our expertise extends broadly across closely related security and risk-based fields – from accessibility consulting and risk analysis to process safety, forensic investigations, security risk consulting, emergency management, digital innovation and more.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Our engineers and consultants collaborate to solve complex safety and security challenges, ensuring our clients can protect what matters most. For over 80 years, we have helped mitigate risks that threaten lives, property and reputations. Through technology, expertise and industry-leading research, we remain dedicated to our purpose of making our world safe, secure and resilient.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">At Jensen Hughes, we believe that creating and sustaining a culture of trust, integrity and professional growth starts with putting our people first. Our employees are our greatest strength, and we value the unique perspectives and talents they bring to our organization. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Our wide range of Global Employee Networks connect people from across the organization, supporting career development and providing forums for individuals to share experiences on topics they're passionate about. Together, we are cultivating a connected culture where everyone has the opportunity to learn, grow and succeed together.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Job Overview</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Role can be based –<strong> </strong>Any of these UK offices (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, and Edinburgh).</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Jensen Hughes is a company fiercely committed to our purpose, our clients, and each other, every single member of our team is essential to our success. We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate Fire Engineer (External Wall Assessments) to join our market leading UK team.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Impact You’ll Make in this Role: </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The successful candidate will perform critical fire engineering role for external wall construction, contributing to the industry wide improvement to fire life safety of for residential buildings post Grenfell. You will work closely with other members of our team across multiple offices to support our clients UK wide. Here at Jensen Hughes, our clients trust us to respond rapidly and deliver conclusive reports, of the highest technical standard. You will undertake reviews of external wall construction for both existing and new buildings by means of document/design reviews, on-site intrusive surveys of existing buildings, on-site inspections of new building work, fire risk appraisals of existing buildings and development of fire engineered solutions for new building designs. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Reviews of architectural drawings and specifications for external wall design relevant to fire life safety and compliance with Building Regulations, Fire Safety Order and PAS 9980</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">On-site inspections of external wall construction new building works, for compliance with the design package and Building Regulations relevant to fire life safety</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">On-site intrusive survey inspections to establish or verify the external wall construction existing buildings relevant to fire life safety provisions, including identification of products/materials and cavity barrier/fire stopping installation</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Risk based assessment of external wall construction of existing building in line with the methodology of PAS 9980 methodology</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Identification and review of building fire strategy key principles via desktop review of fire strategy reports, fire risk assessment reports, building plans or on-site inspection</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; fon