Principal Fire Protection Engineer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description:

Responsible for managing technical aspects of larger and/or more complex tasks or components of projects, meeting financial, quality,timeframe and health and safety objectives. Manage the delivery of elements of larger projects in accordance with Arcadis management systems to meet time, quality, budgetary and health and safety targets. Typically assigned to provide a controlling technical role on medium size and/or moderately complex tasks in single discipline. Coordinate and manage teams of single (own) discipline engineers and technicians. May undertake a Task Management Role in line with Arcadis Task Manager Academy competence requirements. Work to ensure maximum internal stakeholder satisfaction, championing care and proactively working with internal 
stakeholders.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Able to lead and provide direction and technical advice to team members, to support them in their delivery and in their professional development
• Able to identify the limits of both their personal knowledge and skills the limits of their team's skill and knowledge
• Capable of exercising sound holistic independent judgement and take responsibility and accountability for their own performance and that of junior team members
• Able to understand and comply with the Code of Conduct operated by professional institution
• Engage with activities promoted by professional institution
• Demonstrate appropriate professional standards, recognizing obligations to society, the profession and the environment
• Technical ownership of safe design processes which consider safety during construction, operation and decommissioning through the use of hazard identification and risk assessment during design development
• Sound knowledge of legislation, hazards and safe systems of work and understand how to manage health, safety and welfare within own area of responsibility
• Experienced in leading, and working with, people from varied disciplines, backgrounds and cultures
• Plan for effective project implementation
• Manage the planning and organization of tasks, people and resources
• Excellent task management, stakeholder relationship management and commercial skills at a level expected of a professional person
• Maintain and extend a sound theoretical approach to the application of technology in engineering practice
• Ability to use a sound evidence-based approach to problem solving and be able to contribute to continuous improvement
• Ability to implement design solutions and lead their evaluation
• Able to provide input to estimates for the engineering budget and schedule and to oversee technical resources to meet requirements on large, straightforward projects
• Able to use sound knowledge of statutory and commercial frameworks within own area of responsibility and have an appreciation of other commercial arrangements
   

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering or equivalent and formally licensed 
  to act as a professional engineer (if required in their Arcadis GEC 
  country)
• Possess 7-15 years of relevant professional experience

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a 'people first' business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.