Fire Engineer

Job description

About Holmes

Holmes is an engineering consultancy known for intelligent, pragmatic engineering and collaborative design. Our performance-based fire safety solutions help deliver cost-efficient, innovative outcomes, giving clients confidence throughout the life of their buildings and infrastructure.

Founded in New Zealand more than 70 years ago, Holmes now has more than 500 people across New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the USA. We’re a friendly, collaborative team that takes pride in delivering high-quality work. We support our people with flexible working, career development and the resources to do their best work.

About the role

We’re looking for a Fire Engineer to join our Sydney team. You’ll work with clients, architects, project managers, design teams and approval authorities on new and existing buildings. The role offers varied, technically challenging projects and the chance to contribute to a forward-thinking fire engineering practice.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Preparing National Construction Code (NCC) / Building Code of Australia (BCA) assessments through drawing reviews and site inspections.
• Preparing fee proposals and fire engineering performance-based design solutions.
• Carrying out qualitative and quantitative egress, fire and smoke spread, and radiant heat assessments.
• Modelling fire and smoke using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS).
• Assessing occupant evacuation using calculations and tools such as Pathfinder, Simulex, Evacnet or similar.
• Assessing structural systems exposed to fire using relevant standards, research and computational methods.
• Attending site inspections and project meetings.
• Coordinating fire safety matters with clients, consultants and approval authorities.
• Contributing to technical sessions and seminars.
• Keeping project information organised and tracking tasks and schedules.

About you

To be successful in this role, you’ll bring:

• Demonstrated experience independently leading fire engineering work packages from concept through detailed design, including performance-based assessment, technical reporting, multidisciplinary coordination, and presenting recommendations to clients and approval authorities.
• An undergraduate or postgraduate qualification in fire safety or fire protection engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• Experience developing fire strategies and technical reports, and undertaking performance-based fire design.
• Experience with evacuation and/or CFD modelling, site inspections, and coordination with multidisciplinary teams.
• Clear communication, sound organisation and a practical, analytical approach to problem-solving.

Benefits and culture

Holmes offers flexible working, a profit-share system and performance bonuses. We value a supportive team environment, interesting project work and a healthy work-life balance.

Location

Sydney, NSW