Fire Safety Team Leader (Building Performance), London

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

With a team of approximately 45,000, we provide end-to-end services in advanced manufacturing, cities & places, energy, environmental, life sciences, transportation and water. From advisory and consulting, feasibility, planning, design, program and lifecycle management, we're creating a more connected and sustainable world.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programs, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the opportunity

The Jacobs Cities & Places (C&P) team create thriving places - from regions, cities, neighbourhoods & communities through to individual buildings and all through an integrated design approach. We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us to build upon our strengths and develop an interdisciplinary planning, design and delivery practice that is uniquely Jacobs, that sets the direction for the industry and is home to the very best and brightest design thinkers, disruptors, technical experts, visionaries and storytellers.

Our business unit brings together engineers, architects, surveyors, designers, place-makers, project managers and transport planners to provide collaborative and coordinated value design solutions for our clients, both domestically and internationally.

Our fire team is looking for an innovative and strategic thinker who can help shape our business to deliver superior building performance in terms of fire safety design and management. A leader who can deliver expertise and is prepared to develop our existing client relationships and create new ones – to develop a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in London.

Some example duties and responsibilities:

• Delivering significant fire engineering projects nationally and internationally
• Hiring team members as necessary (alongside UK Fire Engineering Lead)
• Leading and mentoring other members of the team
• Developing and owning client relationships
• Raising and owning the London fire team’s profile internally and externally
• Leading bid work and allocating work to grow the team’s multi-sector experience

You will be responsible for developing and owning a Fire Safety CoE in London encompassing all aspects of project management from assisting with preparation of quotations, through to management of the delivery of the technical expertise, analyses and reports, drawings, specifications and documentation as necessary.

• This role will be based on a Hybrid basis from our office in London Bridge

• Full time employment with Jacobs is @ 40 hours per week

Here's what you'll need

• A Masters or Ph.D in Fire Engineering or equivalent and proven experience
• Ideally be a Chartered or Incorporated Fire Engineer through the IFE
• Considerable experience working on large, complex projects requiring fire engineering solutions across The UK, Ireland and the Middle-East
• Experience of leading project teams & good negotiation and mentoring skills
• Strong technical knowledge with a corresponding track record of gaining agreement for prescriptive and performance based design solutions from approving authorities and other key stakeholders - quality work delivered to time and on budget consistently
• Organisation, team leadership and execution of site inspections, audits and fire risk assessments preferred, with a good working knowledge of UK, ROI, NFPA, IBC / IFC Codes.
• Interactive and collaborative mindset / emotional intelligence for working with fire engineers and multi-disciplinary teams across the UK and abroad
• Leading computational modelling of evacuation, fire growth and smoke movement would be highly beneficial, including CFD modelling
• Structural fire engineering highly beneficial

Our culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Women and Vetnet Find out more about our employee networks here.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team.

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Location: UK, GB

Posted Date: 11/27/2024