Arcadis careers 2022 in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom – Fire Safety Engineer

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At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role description:

At Arcadis UK we are looking for a Fire (Safety) Engineer to join our Fire Safety team part of the Strategic Environmental & Safety Consulting (SESC) team, to provide Fire Safety Engineering work that support design projects within and outside the UK.

In the Fire Safety team, we cover all project life cycle, from design, construction, and post-construction. We are focused on creating safe, innovative, and sustainable solutions within the built environment. Your experience will be critical because we take our passion of improving quality of life seriously and provide our clients with fire safety strategies that make an impact.

We are growing our team due to increased project demand and because we are such a diverse business, we can offer you variety as standard. You will get to work on a range of different projects across the buildings sector, but also across specialist sectors such automotive, aviation and manufacturing.

This role can be based from our Birmingham, Leeds, London or Manchester office and there will be the opportunity to work from home.

Role accountabilities:

• Development of Fire Safety Strategy reports.
• Means of escape analysis (including assessment of travel distances, escape routes and exit widths/capacities; RSET calculations; development of emergency evacuation plans).
• Assessment and understanding of the main British fire safety legislation and standards applied to buildings such as Approved Document B (AD B), BS 9999, BS 9991, BS 7974
• Knowledge of changes to the Building Regulations (e.g., Fire Safety Act 2021, Building Safety Bill)
• Third party review/design verification.
• Attendance of internal and external design team meetings.
• Site inspections with initial supervision.
• Supporting on the development of Fire Risk Assessment reports.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling using programs such as FDS. Zone modelling with programs such as CFast and B-Risk.
• People Movement Modelling Analysis (PeMMA): evacuation and crowd simulations using computational models such as EXODUS and SIMULEX (desirable but not essential).
• Understanding of other fire safety guidance such as rail guidance (London Underground fire safety standards, Network Rail standards, BS 9992)
• international fire safety guidance such as NFPA 101; other guidance documents such as CIBSE Guide E (desirable but not essential).

Qualifications & Experience:

• Track record of working as a Fire Engineer with experience in designing and implementing fire safety strategies.
• Understanding of fire dynamics, heat transfer and smoke behaviour principles in enclosed environments.
• Good knowledge of Bluebeam or similar for marking up architectural drawings with fire safety requirements/commentary.
• Basic understanding on Active Fire Protection (AFP) systems and Passive Fire Protection (PFP) measures.
• Basic knowledge on fire modelling simulations (using zone models such as CFAST and CFD-based models such as SMARTFIRE, FDS).
• Desired – Chartered Engineer.

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth’s resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

Transform Your World

Company: Arcadis

Vacancy Type: Full-time · Mid-Senior level

Job Location:  Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Application Deadline: N/A

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