Group Head of Fire Design

At PM Group, we have a very exciting new role for someone with significant experience in Fire Safety from a design perspective. We wish to appoint a Group Head of Fire Design who will report to our Group Head of Design Health and Safety, and supports all PM Group operations.

This person will be au fait dealing with clients, insurers and project teams at very senior level. You will support business needs and continued growth of PM Group Design Projects across the globe. This role can therefore be based in the UK or Ireland.

You will be self-driven and capable of managing numerous projects at one time. In addition, you will have the opportunity to shape this role; and drive the growth and capabilities of the overall Fire Engineering within PM Group. It is a truely global role.

From experience you will be familiar with the following activities and will be responsible for

• Liaising the clients, insurers and project team to determine the Fire Engineering deliverables and responsibilities on a project.
• Initiating the pre-consultation meeting with the Fire Certificate permitting Authority.
• Understanding the Building Function for compliance and the additional risks associated with the process activities.
• Developing a Fire Engineering Strategy for the Project using engineering principles and write technical reports.
• Using national and international standards to carry out work.
• Understanding and implementation of client insurer requirements and integration of these requirements with the local codes and regulations
• Defining the RACI for Fire Compliance delivery on the project and translate this to the Basis of Safety for the Project.
• Overseeing compliance to the Building Regulations / Codes of the region.
• Managing fire engineering sub-consultants and ensure that they perform their scope of services
• Liaising and meeting with Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ’s) or equivalent on particular projects
• Leading Fire Reviews and project meetings and liaising with design teams to ensure a full end-to-end project life-cycle approach.
• Promoting the Living Safety Culture across PM Group projects.
• Fostering and developing relationships with Sub-consultants and within client teams.
• Supporting the Design Teams globally by ensuring that all projects have the Fire Engineering aspects covered, including Managed Services projects.
• Documenting best practice for all regions in this discipline.
• Visit and work from client or project offices and travel as and when required, locally and internationally.

Because the job role for Group Head for Fire Engineering has a wide remit a general knowledge of Fire Protection core competencies and its connection to Engineering Design and Building Compliance is expected.

Typical Fire Engineering Specialism includes an understanding of:

Codes and regulations

Compartmentation

Fire resistance

Flame Spread

Fire Fighting requirements (e.g. Hydrants, access for fire brigade etc)

Clean Agent Suppression

Egress

Explosion Protection

Fire Alarm, Detection, and Signaling

Passive Fire Protection

Performance-based Design and Analysis

Process Fire Safety

Smoke Control Systems

Structural Protection

Sprinkler systems (wet, dry, Preaction, foam etc)

There will be a requirement to work on projects, where your natural competencies lie i.e. Fire Engineering, Project Engineering, Architectural or Engineering Design. The role is a global role and focused on Strategy and Risk on PM Group Designs.

Fire Engineering is one of the seven Workstreams that PM Group identify for Safe Asset delivery. These streams are as follows

• Technical Integrity
• Process Safety
• Fire Engineering
• Construction
• Commissioning
• Operable and Maintainable
• Decommissioning

• A Level 8 qualification in Engineering, Fire Engineering or Architecture
• Atleast 10+ year’s experience in a lead role in one of these areas
• Chartered status preferred but not essential
• Have proposal / commercial management experience (advantageous)
• Have good communication, management & people skills
• Be a good time manager with the ability to balance multiple priorities
• Proficiency in Microsoft suite of software (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, etc.)

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