Associate Fire Engineer

The Team

Cundall’s Fire Safety Engineering team’s mission in Ireland is to play a key role in making sure that a building’s fire protection not only comply with the relevant legislation, but also provide a safe environment in the most cost-effective manner, without compromising the architectural integrity of the overall building design.

The Fire Safety Engineering team’s expertise in the design and development of fire safety solutions is well known throughout the industry – and as a team we offer a pro-active and collaborative approach to skill development, and professional excellence. Winners of the 2021 CIBSE Innovation Award, Cundall are at the forefront of the industry, priding ourselves on our exemplary track record of design and innovation.

The Role

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Principal/Associate level Fire Safety Engineer to join our Dublin office, to play a key role in the delivery of fire safety engineering design services across a variety of sectors including data centres, healthcare, education, retail, commercial and tall buildings. This role will be to lead our existing Fire Safety Engineering team in Ireland, based out of our new office overlooking St Stephen’s Green in central Dublin. You will work closely with our UK and international teams and will assimilate to the innovative services we have developed so that you can use these to promote our services and wider Cundall capacity in the Irish market. We are resourced as a single team with workload shared across offices to provide work security, pool resource and support recruitment.

Working closely with colleagues of various disciplines within the Dublin office, you will design, analyse, report, and document Fire Engineering projects, as well as interface with clients. You will work across a variety of sectors and will have the opportunity over time to assume greater levels of responsibility and autonomy as we support the development of your professional skills.

In this role, you will take responsibility for the design of fire safety engineering solutions including:

• Feasibility Studies for master-planning and concept design stages
• Fire Safety Strategies to ensure early approval from authorities
• Advanced Fire Safety Design to demonstrate fire safety engineering compliance
• Fire Strategy Drawings for more detailed designs
• Expert advice and support during the Statutory Approval and construction process
• Evacuation Strategies and modelling software
• Smoke Management and modelling software
• Structural Fire Engineering
• Optimisation of Fire Safety Systems
• Fire Risk Management and Assessment
• Fire Investigation

The successful candidate will also assist with the preparation of fee proposal documents and fee calculations, monitor and manage resourcing requirements for projects, as well as review and verify designs produced by other team members, providing feedback as required and signing off designs.

Your role will be crucial to the successful delivery of innovative design solutions for some of the most exciting building projects in the Ireland, UK and internationally, and you will take ownership and responsibility for training and mentoring more junior members of the team.

The Skills

Educated to degree level in a related discipline and either a Chartered engineer or already working towards chartership, you will have gained substantial relevant experience in Fire Safety Engineering design within a building services context and have proven your technical understanding in relevant design software.

Having gained practical experience in working to Irish Standards, BCAR, NFPA, IBC, IFC and Performance-based design approach, you understand the role of fire safety engineering for the built environment and have a passion for providing excellence in fire safety engineering design. You should ideally also have a good understanding of the Irish construction industry.

Given the collaborative and client focussed nature of this role, excellent communication skills, an understanding of financial and resource management, and experience of using your initiative to overcome challenges are essential.

Job Description

Why Join Cundall?

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