Fire Safety Consultant

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

This role is part of Arcadis’ Global Excellence Centre (GEC) and will join our 3,000+ talented individuals working in India, Romania, and Philippines, in partnership with Arcadis’ offices globally.  The GEC brings key capabilities and capacity to support our clients seamlessly around the world.  For those in GEC there are options to be dedicated to one country; developing deep knowledge and strong relationships, as well as opportunities to be part of teams working truly globally as a centre of excellence, offering diversity and variety. Arcadians are by nature, globally minded and culturally aware, and Arcadis strongly believes in flexibility which enables change over time as your career progresses. The GEC model is well embedded in Arcadis, and the strong relationships that exist between our global offices are truly unique. 

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

Your experience will be critical because we take our passion of improving quality of life seriously and provide our clients with the fire safety strategies that make an impact. 

We are looking to grow our team to increase projects demand and because we’re such a diverse business, we can offer you variety as standard. You’ll get to work on a range of different projects across the buildings sector, but also across manufacturing, infrastructure, water and other sectors. The work will mainly involve desktop reviews of design projects on the initial stages and support the fire safety discipline at Arcadis.   

This role can be based in our Mumbai office.

Role accountabilities:

• Development of Fire Safety Strategy reports 
• Means of Escape analysis (including calculations of evacuation times based on RSET principles from PD 7974 part 6; escape routes and exits widths; assessment of travel distances; development and assessment of evacuation strategy plans) 
• People Movement Modelling Analysis (PeMMA): evacuation and crowd simulations using computational models, such as EXODUS, SIMULEX etc 
• Assessment and understanding of the main British fire safety legislation and standards applied to buildings, such as Approved Document B (AD B), BS9999, BS7974 
• Assessment and understanding of the main British fire safety legislation and standards, such as the London Underground fire safety standards, the Network Rail standards, e.g., LUL – S1371, Railway Safety Principles and Guidance (RSPG) 
• Risk Based Interpretation and Application of these fire safety documents as well as other Codes of Practice such as international documents such as NFPA standards (e.g., NFPA 101, NFPA 130) 
• Third Party Review/Design Verification 
• Attendance of internal design team meetings 

• Attendance of external design team meetings with clients with initial supervision 
• Supporting on the development of Fire Risk Assessment reports for both, the building and rail sectors. 

Qualifications & Experience:

• Track record of working as a Fire Engineer with experience in designing and implementing fire safety strategies 

• Hazard Identification 
• As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) understanding 
• Fire Risk Assessment principles 

•  Understanding of fire dynamics, heat transfer and smoke behaviour principles in enclosed environments (particularly in undergrounds and tunnels) 
•  Good knowledge on CAD (Computer Aided Design) packages for building up floor plans, sections, elevations of building designs and/or Familiarity with BIM (Building Information Modelling) 
• Basic understanding on Active Fire Protection (AFP) and Passive Fire Protection (PFP) systems 
• Basic knowledge on fire modelling simulation (using zone models such as CFAST and CFD-based models such as FDS or SMARTFIRE).
• Desired – Chartered Fire Engineer 

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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 equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.