Associate Fire Engineer

Overview

As an Associate Fire Engineer, you lead performance-based and code-compliant fire strategies for diverse, high-profile projects. You mentor teams, drive technical excellence, and shape best practice across a multidisciplinary building design practice. You’ll guide fire modelling, regulatory compliance, and bid leadership, collaborating with architects, engineers and clients. This role offers scope to influence major regeneration and healthcare, education and life sciences schemes. You join a values-driven, collaborative community focused on sustainable, people-centric design.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Pension plan
• Holidays
• Free private medical insurance
• Discounted gym membership
• Flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of fire strategies across healthcare, education, commercial, residential, life sciences and regeneration projects
• Provide technical guidance through concept to handover, including CFD and evacuation modelling
• Ensure compliance with regulations and Stantec quality processes (ADB, BS 9991/9999, NFPA, EN)
• Act as Technical Lead on major bids and complex multi-disciplinary schemes
• Lead client meetings, workshops and regulatory consultations, offering commercially aware advice
• Champion fire-safety integration across Architecture, MEP, Structural, Transport, Environmental and PM teams
• Support growth of Fire Engineering services and contribute to fee proposals and strategic pursuits
• Mentor Fire Engineers and promote technical excellence and knowledge sharing

Key requirements

• Extensive experience producing fire strategies for complex buildings
• Proficiency in FDS, PyroSim, Pathfinder or similar tools
• Strong communication skills for presenting technical matters to clients
• Experience in a consultancy environment on multidisciplinary projects
• Proactive, collaborative mindset aligned to Stantec values
• Strong communication
• Collaborative mindset
• Mentoring and leadership
• FDS
• PyroSim
• Pathfinder

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