Senior Reactor Island Fire Protection Engineer/Senior Fire Engineer
Quest Global
- Derby
- Permanent
- Full-time
- • This role, which reports to the Reactor Island Containment/Fire Systems Group Lead, focuses on conventional and life fire safety; however, it also necessitates knowledge of internal hazards and nuclear fire safety regulations.
- Manage and coach a small group of engineers specialising in fire safety. As you foster a culture of continuous improvement, give fire engineers on the design team technical supervision, direction, and coaching.
- Create, oversee, and carry out a thorough fire safety plan for a nuclear facility.
- Developing design solutions that take into account operational experience and lessons learned to ensure a reliable, affordable, high-quality design. These solutions include evacuation plans, detection, suppression, alarms, compartmentalization, and firefighting access/facilities. They also adhere to industry best practices, policies, and procedures.
- In charge of creating and/or technically verifying high-quality outputs, such as:
- Base of design for fire protection;
- Fire Safety Strategies Documents (site or building level);
- ALARP demonstrations
- Standards and Codes Analysis of Suitability
- Reports on Gap Management
- Fire system design documentation, including specifications, P&IDs, equipment lists, and calculations for equipment sizing.
- Create solid plans for the design of fire safety systems and make sure that all project deliverables are completed on schedule, within budget, and in a quality that is consistent with regular progress reports.
- Throughout the project lifecycle, make sure quality is maintained by advancing through the relevant technical reviews and supplying the necessary inputs to the primary project technical review gates.
- Oversee technical interfaces with important project stakeholders in areas such as HVAC, layout, systems integration, control and instrumentation, and safety to guarantee the achievement of a cogent technical solution.
- • Comprehensive understanding of nuclear facilities and conventional fire safety codes, standards, and protection systems (e.g., BS9999).
- Suppression, compartmentalization, smoke control, fire barriers, fire alarms, and detection system design experience.
- Finding and explaining legislative shortcomings and deviations.
- Knowledge of the nuclear industry domain.
- The description of a work programme or project.
- Meeting programme objectives and budgetary constraints by delivering benchmarks on time.
- Good communication in English (oral & written) & Interpersonal skills
- Customer focus - ability to build and develop customer & supplier relationships
- Organisational agility
- Problem solving ability
- Logical thinking
- Effective time management
- Results driven outlook