Jensen Hughes is a leading fire protection engineering company seeking a Façade Engineer to join their UK team. The successful candidate will perform critical fire engineering roles for external wall construction, contributing to the industry-wide improvement to fire life safety of residential buildings. The role involves working closely with other team members across multiple offices to support clients UK-wide.
Requirements
- Knowledge of facades and building envelope systems and interfaces
- Knowledge of construction methods, fire performance of external wall materials cavity barriers, fire stops and fire breaks
- Knowledge of passive fire protection products, fire testing and products field of application
- Experience carrying out intrusive external wall surveys on a wide range of new and existing buildings
- The ability to read architectural drawings and specifications
- The ability to author technical reports with engineering judgement
- Extensive understanding of fire safety design legislation and guidance for a variety of buildings
- A knowledge of the fire risk assessment process and a general appreciation of general risk/hazards in the built environment
- The ability to work at heights on scaffolding, elevated work platforms, building maintenance units, or the like
- Understanding and experience with report writing in Microsoft Word
- The ability to undertake works independently and manage your own workload
- The ability and desire to mentor and manage our young professionals including the Design Engineers
Benefits
- Private medical insurance
- 33 days holiday with an additional day after 5 years
- Industry leading Contributory Pension Scheme
- 4x Life Assurance
- Income Protection Scheme
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced parental-related pay
