Senior Reactor Island Fire Protection Engineer

Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility.

We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers.

As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Reactor Island Containment/Fire Systems Group Lead, this role focuses on conventional/life fire safety however an understanding of internal hazards and nuclear fire safety requirements is also required.
• Supervise and mentor a small team of fire safety engineers. Provide technical supervision, guidance and coaching to fire engineers across the design team and develop a continual improvement culture.
• Develop, manage and implement a comprehensive fire safety strategy for a nuclear site.
• Development of design solutions encompassing evacuation plans, detection, suppression, alarms, compartmentalisation, and firefighting access/facilities in accordance with industry best practice, policies and procedures whilst considering operational experience and lessons learnt to ensure a robust, low cost, high-quality design.
• Responsible for authoring and/ or technically checking high quality outputs in the form of but not limited to:
  • Fire Safety Strategies Documents (Site or Building Level)
  • Fire Protection Basis of Design
  • ALARP demonstrations
  • Codes and Standards Suitability Analysis
  • Gap Management Reports
  • Design documentation for fire systems (requirements, system design descriptions, P&IDs, equipment lists, equipment sizing calculations).
• Develop robust plans for Fire Protection systems design and ensure on time delivery, cost and quality is achieved for all project deliverables to align with regular progress reporting.
• Ensure quality is maintained throughout the project lifecycle by progressing through appropriate technical reviews and providing the required inputs to the main project technical review gates.
• Manage technical interfaces with key stakeholders in other technical functions on the project such as: HVAC, Layout, Systems integration, Control & Instrumentation and Safety to ensure a coherent technical solution is achieved.

Required Skills (Technical Competency):

• In-Depth knowledge of Fire Protection systems, codes and standards relevant to conventional fire safety (e.g BS9999) and nuclear facilities.
• Experience with the design of suppression, compartmentalisation, smoke control, fire barriers, fire alarms and detection systems.
• Identification and justification of gaps/departures from legislation.
• Nuclear industry domain knowledge.
• Definition of a project/programme of work.
• Delivery of programme milestones in line with agreed plans and budgets.

Desired Skills:

• 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

DISCLAIMER: Due to the nature of work candidates should be UK citizen/ EU Citizen/ Valid work permit holder. For further information contact us on: career_uk@quest-global.com