Apprentice Fire Safety Engineer

The role is that of a learning role, where alongside your apprentice (Level 6) degree, you will also learn by way of hands-on experience by working on live fire engineering projects, and putting into practice the lessons you learn during your time at university. Some key areas that you will perform are:

• Developing your understanding of fire engineering and the role of the fire engineer on projects ranging from inception through to practical completion and into the buildings’ operational life.
• Developing your knowledge whilst working as part of a team within OFR to both understand and apply fire safety legislation and design guidance within the UK as a part of project delivery (for both our Design and Implementation Teams).
• Developing a range of skills to enable you to carry out fire engineering calculations including smoke modelling, evacuation analysis and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modelling.
• Enhance your knowledge to be able to identify the appropriate fixed fire protection systems to support fire engineering design solutions i.e. automatic fire detection, suppression systems, etc.
• Developing your communication and people skillset. This will actively support and enhance your ability to communicate with clients and internally across a range of skills, abilities and technical knowledge.
• Developing an ability to influence and negotiate (this will follow on from above communication skillsets).
• Developing a practical knowledge of the construction, consultancy and property industry, including relative United Kingdom standards, guidelines and/or acceptable solutions.
• Developing your knowledge of technical software (such as FDS, Brisk, Simulex etc.), and the Microsoft Office suite.