Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy committed to delivering impactful work that shapes the future.

We are a team of over 20,000 experts working across the world in more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. We have a reputation for delivering technical excellence on some of World’s most prominent and challenging projects, and for working across multiple markets, including transportation, energy, water, and the built environment.

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Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and championing you to be your best.

Join us and shape your story with Mott MacDonald, where everyone has the opportunity to be brilliant.

Our teams take an active part in international infrastructure projects, specializing in bridges, highways, geotechnics, railways, tunnels, and foundations.

Job Description

Fire Engineer primarily with transportation and commercial buildings experience should have capability delivering technical guidance for fire modelling, code guidance reviews and innovative performance–based design solutions; to improve life safety, allow greater architectural flexibility, support safety case designs, maintaining sustainable designs with cost effective resolutions. Resolving design issues which would otherwise be prohibited by regulatory code guidance or to demonstrate ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) principles have been achieved to support safety case and bespoke design options. Should have ability to apply risk assessment analysis and review holistic fire safety features in accordance with the best international practice.

Job Location: Noida

Key Responsibilities:

● Support developing overall project fire strategy.

● Fire safety planning for flammable products handling facilities.

● Design fire protection systems, including fire sprinkler systems, fire alarms, and smoke control systems.

● Perform hydraulic calculations and prepare system layouts.

● Should be well versed with relevant NFPA and BS-EN standards e.g. NFPA 130/502//92/204, BS-EN 476/12101/7974/45545/1366/1363, CIBSE TM-19 etc.

● Should be well versed with latest fire protection technologies and international market practice.

● Ability to guide CFD fire modellers.

● Should have experience of supporting interfacing with approving authorities and licensee regulators internationally.

● You will be participating in project technical meetings involving internal clients/stakeholders, supporting the requirements of different projects.

● Develop team skill set by providing required training and guidance to peers and reportees.

● Collaboration/ coordination with other discipline’s counterparts.

● Reporting to Technical Principal/ Principal Engineer.

Candidate Specification

Qualifications:

Minimum Mechanical engineering degree (master’s degree in fire & safety engineering, numerical analysis-fire dynamics and thermal engineering will be preferred)

Essential Skills and Experience:

● Minimum 3–4 years of experience developing fire risk assessment analysis for international projects.

● Minimum 08–10 years of experience developing comprehensive fire engineering solutions.

● Experience of developing fire design submissions for international fire authorities and licensee regulators approval.

● Skilled in developing modelling strategies, interpreting results, and delivering actionable insights.

● Strong communicator with clear technical writing and presentation abilities.

Desirable Competencies / Skills:

● Experience of developing risk assessment and fire strategy report for overall projects.

● Hands on experience with computational modelling software and fire and smoke analysis methods e.g. FDS/Ansys Fluent.

● Basic understanding of 1D simulations, knowledge of boundary conditions, and application of 1D results in CFD analysis to provide meaningful results.

● Working knowledge of Python, C++, VBA etc, for integration with Mott MacDonald’s digital solutions and coding requirement of simulation projects.

● Hands-on experience with User Defined Function.

Flexible working

At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• Agile working
• Critical illness and compassionate leave
• Paternity Leave
• Group term life insurance, and Group medical insurance coverage
• Career mobility options
• Short and Long-term global employment opportunities
• Global collaboration and knowledge sharing