Principal Fire Engineer

You're a Principal Fire Engineer who wants to lead at scale-across complex projects, client relationships, and the direction of a growing team. At Stantec, you'll join an expanding Fire Engineering capability within our Buildings business, working nationally from any of our UK offices. This is a role where you'll combine technical authority with leadership, shaping how fire engineering is delivered within a multidisciplinary environment and contributing to the continued growth of the service., You will lead the delivery of fire engineering strategies across a diverse portfolio, from concept design through to construction and handover. This includes both performance-based and code-compliant approaches, ensuring solutions are technically robust, coordinated, and aligned with regulatory requirements. You'll act as a senior technical authority, overseeing modelling inputs and guiding design teams while maintaining high standards across all outputs. You'll work closely with other disciplines to integrate fire engineering into wider project delivery, ensuring a joined-up approach across architecture, MEP, structural, and environmental teams. Alongside technical leadership, you'll take ownership of client relationships-leading meetings, advising on strategy, and supporting successful project outcomes. You'll also contribute to business growth through work-winning activity, including bids, proposals, and identifying opportunities to expand the service offering. Internally, you'll play a key role in developing people-mentoring engineers, supporting progression toward chartership, and contributing to technical standards and thought leadership across the team. YOUR IMPACT You'll shape how complex buildings are designed and delivered, helping clients navigate fire safety requirements with solutions that are both technically rigorous and practical to implement. Your work will directly contribute to safer, more resilient buildings across multiple sectors. Beyond individual projects, your impact will extend to the growth and capability of the team. You'll influence how fire engineering is delivered across the business, support the development of engineers, and contribute to building a strong, consistent, and forward-looking service offering.

• Strong technical capability across performance-based and code-compliant design
• Experience leading projects and managing client relationships
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting team development
• Comfortable contributing to business development and work-winning activity
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or working toward chartership with IFE or equivalent
  
  We are driven to achieve: Named in the top 50 companies to work by Glassdoor 2025. Recognised by Corporate Knights as one of the world's top 10 most sustainable companies 2025. Named 'Best Place to Work' and 'International Consulting Firm of the Year' at the NCE Awards 2024., The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.
Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients' vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today's challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities. Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn't exactly align, we encourage you to apply.


• We do what is right: Industry leading training and development as well as paid for professional subscriptions. A professional progression plan supporting your continued development.
• We are better together: A supportive and collaborative team environment with access to multidisciplinary expertise across the business.
• Growth: We're on an exciting growth journey across the UK - we want you to be part of it.
• Great Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus schemes, enhanced pension plan, annual leave with the option to buy/sell additional days, private medical insurance, group income protection & life assurance included as standard as well as discounted gym membership and more.
• Hybrid / Flexible working: Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with our hybrid approach to flexible working.