Degree Apprentice Fire Safety Engineer/Technician

Summary

Kickstart your career at Balfour Beatty, where you’ll receive structured training and a formal qualification. Alongside a great salary and benefits package, you'll gain invaluable experience and skills that pave the way for exciting opportunities and career progression. This is more than just a job - it's a pathway to a promising future.

Annual wage: Competitive
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Training course: Fire safety engineer (level 6)
Hours: Monday - Friday 9.00am - 6.00pm
42 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 5 Years
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

As a Degree Apprentice Fire Safety Engineer / Technician your job is like

Studying fire science while
Helping design systems to protect buildings from fires
You’ll study for a degree while working on fire safety projects, learning to design, install, and maintain safety systems
You’ll learn fire safety principles, system design, and installation techniques

Where you’ll work

West Service Road

Raynesway

Derby

DE21 7BG

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY

Your training course

Fire safety engineer (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Use and evaluate modelling software including smoke and evacuation models.

Develop or review, safe, technical solutions to fire safety engineering problems through the use of research techniques, current and emerging technologies, products and innovations as well as best practice. Examples include: ability to use of range of research methods to collect and analyses data to draw well-founded practical conclusions for implementation, applicable research strategy and methodology, literature searches.

Communicate and provide guidance to others using language to suit the audience through varying methods: design models, calculations, reports, drawings, specifications, presentations, digital media and discussions with those both inside and outside the industry.

Demonstrate solutions proposed are safe and the level of safety they provide. Critically analyse prescriptive recommendations and alternative solutions, the use of bench-marking, cost and or benefit and sensitivity analysis.

Present detailed fire safety engineering solutions for concept design and detailed design.

Coordinate fire safety solutions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Review and interpret fire related information such as product certification and test reports, cause and effect information and design detail drawings.

Carry out and record the continuing professional development necessary to maintain and enhance knowledge and competence as a fire safety engineer.

Interpret and apply design and quality standards including codes of practice, legal and regulatory frameworks, in the development of fire engineering solutions, Examples include: planning, designing, construction and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure in compliance with current codes, standards and legislation, industry regulations.

Evaluate the impact of fire safety engineering on society and the environment taking account of business, client and end user needs in its construction, management and use.

Monitor and manage the planning, budgeting and organisation of tasks, people and resources for projects and change management activities, working to agreed quality standards, project programme and budget, legal, contractual and statutory requirements.

Apply the principles of teamworking and developing staff across disciplines.

Develop or review fire safety solutions and be able to objectively review, identify issues, offer alternative solutions or opinions including, fire engineered analysis, means of escape calculations, smoke ventilation calculations, heat transfer calculations and hazard identification and fire risk assessments.

Your training plan

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

IT skills
Attention to detail
Analytical skills
Team working

Other requirements

For our Level 6 Apprenticeship, you’ll need 3 A Levels or equivalent at passing grades. This programme combines advanced academic study with full-time work, offering you the opportunity to develop both professionally and academically.

About this company

We are Balfour Beatty, you may not know us by name but you definitely will have seen what we do. We are one of the UK’s largest construction companies building iconic buildings and structures that will last for generations to come.

https://www.balfourbeatty.com/ (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Fire Safety Engineer.

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