Bellrock Group
Head of Fire Engineering
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Head of Fire Engineering
As Head of Fire Engineering, you will lead the Fire Engineering service line nationally, overseeing technical delivery, commercial performance, and strategic growth.
You will be responsible for ensuring that fire engineering services are delivered to the highest technical and regulatory standards while maintaining profitability, resource efficiency, and client satisfaction.
This role combines technical authority with operational and commercial leadership. You will shape the direction of the fire engineering function, support senior engineers, and ensure compliance with legislative frameworks including the Building Safety Act.
As part of the role, you may be asked to contribute to Safety Case Reviews and HAZID (Hazard Identification) activities where required.
How will you be the change?
- Providing strategic leadership to the Fire Engineering team, including Principal Engineers, Associate Directors, and Senior Fire Engineers.
- Owning the technical governance framework for Fire Engineering outputs, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and professional standards.
- Ensuring consistent application of:
- Approved Document B
- BS 7974 performance-based frameworks
- PAS 9980 (where applicable)
- Building Safety Act requirements
- Relevant British Standards and sector guidance
- Overseeing technical peer review structures and sign-off hierarchies.
- Driving commercial performance including utilisation, revenue targets, and pipeline conversion.
- Supporting bid strategy, fee proposals, and major framework submissions.
- Managing team capacity planning and recruitment in line with projected growth.
- Leading the development of fire modelling capability and performance-based engineering services.
- Acting as senior escalation point for complex regulatory matters or client disputes.
- Supporting cross-division collaboration with Fire Risk, FRAEW, and Compliance teams.
- Maintaining professional indemnity risk awareness and ensuring engineering defensibility.
- Representing Bellrock at senior client meetings, industry forums, and technical events where required.
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What does it take?
If you’re ready to be the energy that helps us build our business, share our success, and really own it as a Head of Fire Engineering, you’ll need…
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status through a recognised professional engineering institution (essential).
- Extensive experience in fire engineering consultancy, including leadership of complex, high-rise, and performance-based projects.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience managing team utilisation and financial performance.
- Deep understanding of UK fire legislation, Building Regulations, and performance-based design methodologies.
- Experience leading and mentoring senior technical professionals.
- Demonstrable experience in governance, quality control, and engineering sign-off structures.
- Strong understanding of professional indemnity exposure and risk mitigation in consultancy environments.
Core Quality and Attributes
- Strategic and commercially aware leader.
- Technically authoritative with strong professional credibility.
- Decisive and confident in managing complex engineering issues.
- Able to balance compliance, risk, and commercial objectives.
- Strong communicator capable of influencing clients and internal stakeholders.
- Resilient and adaptable in a growth-focused environment.
- Committed to developing high-performing teams and maintaining technical excellence.
- Demonstrates Bellrock’s values through integrity, leadership, and accountability.
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Working arrangements
We embrace smarter working practices which offer our employees the opportunity to work their hours flexibly and remotely where their roles and business needs allow. In this role, the successful candidate would be required to work mobile across London and various other sites around the UK Monday to Friday.
What can we offer you?
Upon joining Bellrock, you can expect a comprehensive benefits package including:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 1 additional day as a thank you (enjoy it, it’s on us)
- Salary exchange pension scheme
- Life cover
- Paid sick leave
- Health Assured employee assistance and wellness program
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Salary sacrifice schemes: Cycle to work
- Holiday purchase scheme of additional 5 days per year
- Offers and discount scheme designed to save money on everyday shopping and essentials
- Healthcare Cashplan
- MotorSave Scheme
- Refer a friend
- Liftshare
- Virtual GP
Why Bellrock?
Our people are our passion, so we’re all about helping them to shine. That means putting everything in place for you to have a rewarding career with us. So you can go far in your career, with us behind you. And our business will grow, too. So, if you’re ready to start your career journey with Bellrock, we’re ready to welcome you. It’s a great place to be - the light, the energy, the solution. You.
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