As our business continues to grow, we’re looking for an experienced Senior Fire Engineer (Active Fire Protection Systems) to join our team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a technically skilled engineer with experience in the design, specification and assessment of active fire protection systems. You’ll play a key role in delivering projects across a variety of sectors, providing expertise in fire sprinklers, water mist systems, gaseous fire suppression systems and wet and dry fire mains.

We’re looking for someone with a strong understanding of active fire protection standards and guidance, who can confidently undertake conceptual systems design analyses, prepare technical reports and specifications, carry out site inspections, and collaborate with project teams to deliver practical and effective fire safety solutions.

The successful candidate will have experience working within the construction, consultancy or property sectors, along with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. You’ll be comfortable leading low to medium-sized projects, supporting colleagues with technical advice, and contributing to the continued growth of our Active Fire Protection Systems capability.

The role is available across all eight of our UK offices: Manchester, Banbury, Bath, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and London.

Why join OFR?

Since opening our doors in 2016, OFR has grown from a two-person start-up into an employee-owned consultancy of more than 180 people, with offices across the UK. We’re proud to have been recognised as a World Class Place to Work by Best Companies, an independent employee engagement specialist.

Benefits include:

• Flexible and hybrid working
• Private medical insurance
• Healthcare cash plan
• Company pension scheme
• Life insurance
• 28 days’ annual leave plus birthday leave
• Early finish on the last Friday of every month
• Social budget for team activities
• Additional paid leave for charitable work
• Learning and development opportunities
• Staff discount club

As an employee-owned business, we value every individual’s contribution and are committed to creating an environment where people can develop, collaborate and thrive.

Ready for your next challenge? We’d love to hear from you. Apply today.

Interested?

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you.

We are always open to receiving applications from the brightest and the best in the industry.

This includes all grades, all locations, all skill types and experience levels. We have a flexible and entrepreneurial approach to recruitment, and will always listen to a good idea and examine opportunities with a positive attitude.

Working with us, you will have the opportunity to contribute to projects such as large and landmark high-rise buildings, historic renovations, theatres, hospitals, schools, iconic sporting venues as well as boutique local projects that change lives. We work on projects both around the UK and further afield, and have technical experts in many specialist fields including smoke modelling, evacuation modelling and structural fire engineering. As well as the design side of our work, the team engages in research, code development and thought leadership on UK and international platforms.

If you are engaging, enthusiastic and keen to work on unique and award-winning projects, in an environment that promotes innovation and likes to challenge the norm, then please contact us.