Senior Consultant Fire Safety

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).