Jensen Hughes is a leading company in fire protection engineering, and they are seeking a Facade 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 post-Grenfell. The role involves reviewing architectural drawings and specifications, conducting on-site inspections, and developing fire engineered solutions for new building designs.
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
- Knowledge of refurbishment schemes and managing contractors on-site
- 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 paid time off with an additional day after 3 years
- Industry-leading contributory pension scheme
- 4x life assurance
- Income protection scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced parental-related pay
- Recognition and reward programmes to celebrate team efforts
- Access to extensive technical training and resources
- Flexible working hours and patterns including early Friday finish
- Flexible holiday use over Christmas/New Year
- Enhanced holiday entitlement after three years
- The option to carry over up to five unused holiday days into the next year
