18 Firefighters jobs in the United Kingdom
Fire Protection Engineer
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Title: Fire Engineer
Location: Bristol
Full Time Permanent Hybrid Role
Key responsibilities will be:
- Technical clarification and resolution of supplier and client technical queries
- Technical management of the supplier and support to the client in their contractual relationship during design, procurement and delivery phase regarding the schedule, costs, specifications and requisitions.
- Follow up of all equipment manufacturing and delivery to site
- Lead reviews of supplier technical documents and annual surveillance report
- Management of risks, opportunities, open Points, UK Design Changes and Exemptions requests generated by our supplier
- Management of contract transfer sheets that informs the clients about contract modification via dedicated tools
- Management of interfaces with EDVANCE disciplines involved in the fire detection equipment contracts
Qualifications:
- Knowledge of the RCC-E electrical technical regulations and the technical reference system (NFC15-100 / NF C 13-200 / BS7671 / IEC 60909)
- Knowledge of fire detection and protection standards
- Knowledge of the nuclear field via school curriculum or professional experience
- Knowledge of the processes involved in industrial projects in the energy field
- Technical documents reviews
Fire Protection Engineer
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Job Overview:
We are seeking a skilled and reliable Fire Door Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the installation, maintenance, inspection, and repair of fire doors across a variety of commercial and residential properties. This role is critical in ensuring compliance with fire safety regulations and maintaining the integrity of passive fire protection systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Install fire doors and associated hardware in accordance with manufacturer specifications and fire safety regulations.
- Conduct routine inspections and maintenance of fire doors to ensure continued compliance and functionality.
- Diagnose and repair faults or damage to fire doors, frames, seals, and hardware.
- Complete detailed reports and documentation following inspections and repairs.
- Advise clients on fire door compliance and recommend remedial actions where necessary.
- Work collaboratively with other trades and site personnel to ensure smooth project delivery.
- Maintain tools, equipment, and materials in good working order.
- Stay up to date with relevant legislation, standards, and best practices (e.g., BS 8214, BM TRADA, etc.).
Requirements:
- Proven experience in fire door installation, maintenance, and repair.
- Knowledge of fire safety regulations and standards.
- Relevant qualifications or certifications (e.g., BM TRADA, FIRAS, or equivalent).
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality workmanship.
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively.
- Full UK driving licence (if travel is required).
- CSCS card (preferred).
Fire Protection Engineer
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Fire Protection Engineer | Nuclear Projects | Bristol, UK
About Us
ABMI Engineering UK is part of a leading international engineering consultancy group headquartered in France with over 35 years of experience in highly regulated sectors including nuclear, aerospace, and transportation. In the UK, we’re leveraging our deep nuclear expertise to support major projects within Nuclear, Aerospace and Defence. Our Bristol-based team is growing, and we’re looking for skilled engineers who want to make a real impact technically and professionally.
What You’ll Do
As a Fire Protection Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the design, review, and integration of fire protection systems to ensure compliance with safety, regulatory, and operational requirements. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, suppliers, and clients to develop reliable and cost-effective fire protection solutions throughout all stages of the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the primary point of contact for all topics related to fire protection systems within assigned projects.
- Develop and review fire protection system designs, including detection, suppression, and alarm systems.
- Ensure compliance with UK regulations, nuclear safety standards, and client-specific requirements.
- Coordinate and validate supplier documentation, ensuring quality, technical alignment, and timely delivery.
- Support fire risk assessments, hazard analysis, and safety case documentation.
- Collaborate with civil, mechanical, and electrical disciplines to ensure seamless system integration.
- Manage design changes, configuration control, and documentation updates throughout project execution.
- Participate in reviews, inspections, and testing activities to confirm performance and compliance.
Who You Are
- Degree (or equivalent) in Fire Protection, Building Services, Mechanical, Safety, or related Engineering discipline.
- Experience in fire protection design and coordination for complex or regulated environments (nuclear, energy, defence, or large industrial facilities).
- Strong knowledge of fire safety codes and standards
- Understanding of nuclear safety culture and regulatory compliance.
- Comfortable working in highly regulated environments
Why ABMI UK
We offer the agility of a close-knit team backed by the strength of a European group. Here, your work has meaning, your expertise is valued, and your career has room to grow.
- Access to impactful projects with real technical depth
- A collaborative, engineer-led culture
- Structured career progression with technical or leadership pathways
- Personalised development, mentoring, and ongoing support
What We Offer
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Private health insurance
- Pension plan
- 28 days paid leave (excluding bank holidays)
- Hybrid work model (office/home balance)
- Regular team events and professional meetups
Fire Protection Engineer
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Title: Fire Engineer
Location: Bristol
Full Time Permanent Hybrid Role
Key responsibilities will be:
- Technical clarification and resolution of supplier and client technical queries
- Technical management of the supplier and support to the client in their contractual relationship during design, procurement and delivery phase regarding the schedule, costs, specifications and requisitions.
- Follow up of all equipment manufacturing and delivery to site
- Lead reviews of supplier technical documents and annual surveillance report
- Management of risks, opportunities, open Points, UK Design Changes and Exemptions requests generated by our supplier
- Management of contract transfer sheets that informs the clients about contract modification via dedicated tools
- Management of interfaces with EDVANCE disciplines involved in the fire detection equipment contracts
Qualifications:
- Knowledge of the RCC-E electrical technical regulations and the technical reference system (NFC15-100 / NF C 13-200 / BS7671 / IEC 60909)
- Knowledge of fire detection and protection standards
- Knowledge of the nuclear field via school curriculum or professional experience
- Knowledge of the processes involved in industrial projects in the energy field
- Technical documents reviews
Fire Protection Engineer
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Experienced Fire Protection Engineer – London & Surrounding area
Alarm Communications Limited are a leading team of fire protection, commercial security and building management systems specialists, with our Head Office located in Surrey. Our client base is predominantly built of prestigious buildings and landmarks, such as high-end hotels, stadia and education establishments in and around Greater London. We are currently looking to appoint a highly experienced Fire Protection Engineer experienced in Fire Alarms, Extinguishers, Fire Training, Risk Assessment and Fire Stopping, specifically covering in/around the M25.
Basic Salary – up to £35,000 subject to experience
Overtime, Travel Time & Call-out
Pension, Life Assurance & much more.
Alarm Communication’s Fire Protection Engineer’s
Reporting to our Contract Manager, the Engineer will liaise regularly with their Senior Engineer, Service Coordinators and Customer Service Manager. The Engineer will be working as part of a small and dedicated key account support team, so will work regularly with a group of fellow Engineers and Trainee Engineers.
- Work with our established team in the area and look after a selection of key accounts reporting from our office in London Fields.
- Systems vary but include Advanced, Notifier, Morley, Gent with training provided where required.
- Some jobs are completed with a two-person team due to the size and complexity of the buildings, to ensure that the work is completed efficiently and safely.
- The Engineer will be required to work with and actively mentor the Trainee Engineers within their team.
- The sites are primarily long-standing prestigious contracts with direct end-user relationships, so the works must be completed professionally and to exceptional levels of workmanship.
- The engineer will be given time, support, and resources to install and maintain the systems to the highest possible standards, with extensive training provided to achieve expert status with our primary systems.
Requirements
Who We’re Looking For
Alarm Communications consistently aspire to create safe, secure and sustainable spaces, that have a positive influence on the lives of colleagues, clients and the communities we work in, therefore, in addition to having all the usual attributes of a great Alarm Communications’ employee, such as; a positive attitude, excellent communication skills, well presented and professional at all times, ability to work alone and as part of a team…. For this specific opportunity, we are looking for candidates who offer:
- Extensive experience with a range of different products and manufacturers, with at least 2 years’ experience as a Fire Alarm Engineer.
- The desire to install and maintain systems to the highest standards.
- Electrically competent; able to carry out safe isolations and maintain a safe working environment.
- Experience with Installing, Commissioning and Maintaining Systems.
- Customer orientated, with the ability to adapt and respond to clients in different situations.
- Good attention to detail and a person who can prioritise and manage their time effectively.
- Someone with a passion to continue to learn and develop themselves and their skills.
- This position would suit someone who prefers a varied role, completing maintenance, reactive works and small works.
Benefits
How we Attract, Reward & Retain Our Employees
At Alarm Communications we recognise the importance of fairly rewarding our employees. We go above and beyond with our remuneration packages that not only meet the needs of a challenging economic climate, but we offer packages, benefits and incentives to support the broader needs of our people making their everyday lives and futures more comfortable.
- Basic Salary – Up to £5,000 for a highly qualified and experienced engineer
- Overtime, Travel Time & Call-out
- Aviva Pension
- Life Assurance 4x Salary
- 22 Days Paid Holidays plus Bank Holidays
- Paid Candidate Referral Scheme – up to £1 00 per referral, unlimited referrals.
- Mental Health & Well-being Scheme
- Employee Recognition Scheme
- Free, secure, onsite parking
- Development and progression opportunities
A Little More About Alarm Communications
We are a small, regionally focused business which gifts our clients a bespoke and reactive service with undivided attention & dedication. However, we have the luxury and benefit of being part of a wider group of businesses within the Fire Protection, Security & Building Management Systems industry, allowing us to share best-practice, learning & development academies, Human Resource specialists and knowledge for constant improvement across the critical service industry.
Big enough to provide but small enough to care.
Our Business Include:
- Alarm Communications acl.uk.com
- Clymac clymac.co.uk
- FAFS Fire & Security fafsfireandsecurity.com
- Marlowe Kitchen Fire Suppression marlowefireandsecurity.com
- Morgan Fire Protection morganfire.co.uk
- Marlowe Smoke Control marlowe-aov.co.uk
- Marlowe Fire & Security marlowefireandsecurity.com
Equal Opportunities
We strive to create a diverse, inclusive environment to encourage all our employees to be themselves. We celebrate what makes us unique and believe that adopting a culture of inclusion helps us to best serve our customers. We are committed to supporting equal opportunities, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate in the recruitment process.
Right to Work
Regrettably, we are unable to offer Right to Work Sponsorship.
If you do not currently have the Right to Work in the UK or will need additional support to extend your current Right to Work status, your application cannot be considered.
Passive Fire Protection Surveyor
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Vertical Recruitment are working with an exceptional independent Fire Consultancy based in the UK and Ireland. We are seeking an experienced Passive Fire Protection (PFP) Surveyor to join their team in the Midlands. This is a high-profile position requiring strong technical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work closely with senior stakeholders.
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in reviewing technical details, inspecting site works, and ensuring compliance with the highest fire safety standards.
Key Responsibilities:
Review and interpret PFP drawings, details, and test reports, applying results to site conditions.
Conduct on-site inspections of PFP details where scrutiny is required, including:
Steel protection
Service penetrations
Flexible walls
Dampers
Fire doors
Interfaces of different construction elements
Inspect and understand build-ups of construction to assess compliance.
Represent the company confidently in meetings with senior directors and stakeholders.
Build, support, and manage successful teams, ensuring a strong focus on people, technical excellence, and project delivery.
Deliver projects to tight timescales and deadlines, maintaining high standards consistently.
Demonstrate strong day-to-day planning and organisational skills.
Communicate effectively at all levels, engaging and influencing colleagues to achieve shared objectives.
Key Skills & Experience:
Proven experience as a Passive Fire Protection Surveyor or Certification Inspector.
Strong technical knowledge of PFP systems and applications.
Confident communicator with exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills.
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines without compromising on quality.
Leadership ability to manage and support high-performing teams.
ASFP Level 2 qualification (highly advantageous).
Ideal Background:
This opportunity is well-suited to a high-level surveyor currently working for a PFP company or an experienced certification inspector with a track record of delivering exceptional fire safety compliance.
What They Offer:
Opportunity to play a key role in a leading fire safety team.
Collaborative environment with exposure to senior decision-makers.
Competitive salary and package (DOE).
Career progression opportunities within a growing business.
Sales Engineer - Fire Protection
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Job Title: Sales Engineer - Water Mist
Location: Birmingham
Summary of Role
You will take the lead in managing the sales and proposal process for new water mistproject enquiries allocated to you. You will assess project requirements, prepare accurate cost estimates, and collaborate with internal team members to deliver comprehensive proposals. You will have a strong understanding of sprinkler/water m.
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Site Manager - Fire Protection
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We are working with a well-known contractor working in the East Midlands area who are looking for a Fire Protection Site Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. In return you will receive a car allowance, bonus scheme and support on future training and qualifications.
Benefits of the Fire Protection Site Manager :
- £36,000 - £48,000
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Car allowance - mileage c.
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Supervisor - Passive Fire Protection
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Job Title: Supervisor - Passive Fire Protection
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Competitive + Package
Established in 1989, Our client is the UK's leading passive fire protection specialist, supplying a comprehensive range of third-party accredited survey, installation and compliance services to public and private sector organisations across the country.
With offices nationwide, this is a great opportunit.
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Passive Fire Protection Surveyor
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Vertical Recruitment are working with an exceptional independent Fire Consultancy based in the UK and Ireland. We are seeking an experienced Passive Fire Protection (PFP) Surveyor to join their team in the Midlands. This is a high-profile position requiring strong technical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work closely with senior stakeholders.
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in reviewing technical details, inspecting site works, and ensuring compliance with the highest fire safety standards.
Key Responsibilities:
Review and interpret PFP drawings, details, and test reports, applying results to site conditions.
Conduct on-site inspections of PFP details where scrutiny is required, including:
Steel protection
Service penetrations
Flexible walls
Dampers
Fire doors
Interfaces of different construction elements
Inspect and understand build-ups of construction to assess compliance.
Represent the company confidently in meetings with senior directors and stakeholders.
Build, support, and manage successful teams, ensuring a strong focus on people, technical excellence, and project delivery.
Deliver projects to tight timescales and deadlines, maintaining high standards consistently.
Demonstrate strong day-to-day planning and organisational skills.
Communicate effectively at all levels, engaging and influencing colleagues to achieve shared objectives.
Key Skills & Experience:
Proven experience as a Passive Fire Protection Surveyor or Certification Inspector.
Strong technical knowledge of PFP systems and applications.
Confident communicator with exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills.
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines without compromising on quality.
Leadership ability to manage and support high-performing teams.
ASFP Level 2 qualification (highly advantageous).
Ideal Background:
This opportunity is well-suited to a high-level surveyor currently working for a PFP company or an experienced certification inspector with a track record of delivering exceptional fire safety compliance.
What They Offer:
Opportunity to play a key role in a leading fire safety team.
Collaborative environment with exposure to senior decision-makers.
Competitive salary and package (DOE).
Career progression opportunities within a growing business.