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Fire Engineer

Galway, Galway, Ireland

Company Overview

At Jensen Hughes, we lead with our Purpose + Principles and value our people. Across our global partnership of experts, clients, and communities, we are recognized worldwide for our leadership in fire protection engineering, a legacy of responsibility we have advanced with pride since 1939. Today, our expertise extends broadly across closely related risk management fields — from accessibility consulting, risk and hazard analysis, process safety and forensic investigations to security risk consulting, emergency management and digital innovation. As we champion best practices, set industry standards and support communities with innovative solutions, we are making the world a better place.

We believe that creating and sustaining a culture of trust, integrity and professional growth fundamentally includes a sustained commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

At Jensen Hughes, diversity is ingrained in our culture -- 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, or socioeconomic background. Our differences and uniqueness are celebrated and reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks.

Job Overview

Jensen Hughes have a rare and exciting opportunity for a talented Fire engineer to join our market leading Ireland team and help us drive excellence across our projects and deliver world class life safety solutions to our diverse client base in 2024! Our Galway and Cork team have had a record-breaking year with some truly impressive successes to shout about, now is a great time to join us. This role can be located anywhere in Ireland on a remote basis.

Jensen Hughes is a company fiercely committed to our purpose, our clients, and each other, every single member of our team is essential to our success. Worldwide Jensen Hughes are recognised most widely for our leadership in fire protection engineering. 1,500+ employees work together to advance the science of safety every day. Since 1939, we have been at the leading edge of safety, security and risk-based engineering and consulting, serving the most complex global projects. In addition, we pride ourselves on driving code and standard development and adoption throughout the world and across industries.

Why join us to grow your career

• We are the largest fire consultancy in Europe with offices located in Belgium, Finland, Italy, and the UK & Ireland. Our reputation for providing innovative, design focused solutions has made us the consultant of choice for many of Europe’s leading property clients.

• As a Fire Engineer at Jensen Hughes, you will be an integral part of a dynamic technical team, working with our experienced Engineers alongside other teams including our Forensics division you will work on the industries leading technical projects.

• Working with us offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

• You will be given early the opportunity to progress rapidly. Jensen Hughes encourage all Engineers to achieve chartered status and offer help and support during the process.

Responsibilities

• Preparing fire strategies for a wide range of buildings using ADB, BS9999, BS9991, BS7974, HTM Guidance and BB100 among other documents.

• Take a lead on Technical projects

• Manage medium/large size projects including fee proposals and invoicing.

• Be the expert to our clients and that all important first point of call.

• Lead discussion with design team, building control and fire service.

• Attend industry conferences to Network and embrace industry trends and best practices

• Supervise and train graduate engineers.

Requirements and Qualifications

• A background in fire engineering preferably within a consultancy environment

• A bachelor’s degree or higher within Fire engineering

• Ideally working towards becoming a Chartered engineer

• The right to work in Ireland

• The ability to undertake works independently

• The ability and desire to mentor and manage our young professionals

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Jensen Hughes is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

The security of your personal data is important to us. Jensen Hughes has implemented reasonable physical, technical, and administrative security standards to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. We protect your personal data against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, using security technologies and procedures, such as encryption and limited access. Only authorized individuals may access your personal data for the purpose for which it was collected, and these individuals receive training about the importance of protecting personal data. Jensen Hughes is committed to compliance with all relevant data privacy laws in all areas where we do business, including, but not limited to, the GDPR and the CCPA. Additionally, our service providers are contractually bound to maintain the confidentiality of personal data and may not use the information for any unauthorized purpose.

*Policy on use of 3rd party recruiting agency for direct placements

Jensen Hughes will occasionally augment a recruiting search through agencies for certain positions when business conditions warrant. Jensen Hughes will not accept resumes, inquiries or proposals from recruiting agencies as an acceptable method to consider a candidate. 3rd party recruiting agencies must sign a standard Jensen Hughes agreement after being evaluated and accepted by a Human Resources or Talent Acquisition manager, or member of the talent acquisition team. Hiring managers and employees of Jensen Hughes are not authorized to accept resumes, engage in fee-based searches through recruiting firms or sign a search agreement. Please note this policy does not apply to “staffing firms” or firms that are involved with hiring temporary staff. Any recruiting agency interested in being considered may contact our recruiting team at jensenhughesrecruiting.com.