Position – Fire Engineer

Location – Aztec West, Bristol

Travel – Required in the office 3 days per week and 2 from home

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 remote

Arrangement – Staffed only

Salary * £48,000+ DOE

NUVIA UK's Technical Services & Consulting department is fast growing with hybrid opportunities available up and down the country. We're striving to create a multidisciplinary team to offer our clients the best range of talent.

BPSS clearance will be required at basic level. Prior clearance will not be transferrable.

The service conducts internal studies on all the Nuclear Island buildings, to ensure that safety functions are still carried out in the event of a fire occurring within the plant and that the conventional safety requirements related to UK codes and standards are implemented. 

The service works in conjunction with Building Leaders, the safety team, the systems engineers, civil engineers and plant layout engineers.

 Responsibility of a Fire Engineer –

• Using the 3D model, calculation methodologies and fire requirements issued by the architect engineer or the client, the Fire Engineer:

• Analyses the 3D model and identifies the various combustible materials present in each area.

• Performs temperature change calculations over time for a simulated fire (modelling of various situations using the MAGIC software).

• Studies the risk of damage to certain systems (functional redundancy).

• Monitors and includes in the models the changes issued by all the engineering teams (change of positioning of cable trays, electrical cabinets, ventilation ducts, etc.)

• Perform regulatory assessment for fire life safety
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Description of the Fire Protection Engineer –

• Recommends protection solutions to prevent an outbreak of fire or to make it improbable.

• Divides all buildings into zones for fire protection purposes.

• Recommends fire detection and firefighting methods for the quickest possible detection and response.

• Performing fire protection calculations using specific software.

• Supports systems and contract teams to understand and implement the Fire requirements

• Assessing and providing justifications for departures from BS9999