Associate- Fire & Life Safety

Job Description

Your new role, what’s involved?

• Lead design efforts to ensure compliance with relevant building codes and standards, developing performance-based design solutions where necessary, in collaboration with senior staff.
• Conduct onsite inspections during project construction to ensure adherence to the fire strategy throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate and present projects to approving authorities, demonstrating compliance with established standards.
• Review material submittals and shop drawings, ensuring fire protection requirements are communicated clearly to the project team.
• Lead multidisciplinary design teams, integrating fire and life safety requirements with other disciplines.
• Interpret and analyze CFD modeling results (1D/3D) to assess proposed engineering solutions.
• Develop comprehensive fire strategy reports, ensuring exceptional quality and documenting performance-based design solutions in line with standards such as the International Fire Engineering Guidelines (IFEG) and the Society of Fire Protection Engineering Guide (SFPE).
• Review designs in BIM (Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit) to ensure integration of fire safety principles into the design.
• Mentor and support junior staff, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment.
• Communicate design requirements effectively and in a timely manner with multidisciplinary teams.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring compliance with Quality Management System (QMS) policies and procedures.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and effective collaboration across all levels of the organization and with external partners.

Technical Expertise:

• Deliver high-quality, technically accurate design reports that align with client and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the development of fire and life safety drawings, with the assistance of junior staff.
• Contribute to technical workgroups, reviewing architectural, fire protection, and mechanical/electrical drawings for compliance with fire strategy and relevant codes.

• Review material submittals to ensure compliance with fire strategy and regulatory standards.
• Proficient in the International Building Code, International Fire Code, Saudi Building Codes, and NFPA standards.
• Proficient in BIM tools, including AutoCAD and Bluebeam.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Degree in Fire Safety Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Chartered or Professional Engineering qualification (preferred or in progress).
• Minimum of 12 years’ experience in fire and life safety engineering.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite and previous experience working with BIM tools.

• Strong knowledge of AutoCAD and Bluebeam.
• Fluent in English (Arabic language skills are a plus).

Mandatory Skills:

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills (both written and verbal).
• Strong report writing ability and the capability to integrate multiple code requirements into design solutions.

• Excellent liaison skills with authorities and the ability to present complex designs to clients and approving authorities (AHJs).
• In-depth knowledge of Saudi Building Code, NFPA standards, and International Code Council (ICC) codes.