Principal Fire Risk Consultant | South | Full Time | Competitive Salary

Stantec is looking for a Principal Fire Risk Consultant to take a leading role in its growing specialist team.

This is a senior role for someone with strong technical skill, client confidence and leadership experience. You will lead complex fire risk projects, guide clients and help shape the growth of the team across the South.

You will work in a wider multi-disciplinary business, which means you can draw on wider expertise to solve problems in a joined-up way. Apparently, buildings become easier to manage when experts speak to each other. A shocking breakthrough.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global design, engineering and consultancy business.

The company has more than 34,000 employees across more than 450 locations and 6 continents. It has worked with clients and communities in the UK for more than 150 years.

Stantec helps plan, design, deliver and manage the places and infrastructure that support healthier and more sustainable communities.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Fire Risk Consultant, you will lead high-value work and act as a trusted adviser to clients.

You will:

• Lead fire risk work: Manage complex consultancy projects from start to finish.
• Advise clients: Help clients understand fire safety duties and next steps.
• Review assessments: Oversee fire risk assessments and related outputs.
• Check quality: Provide quality assurance across key commissions.
• Guide programmes: Support fire safety improvement plans for clients.
• Manage relationships: Build long-term, trusted client links.
• Support growth: Help prepare fee proposals and win new work.
• Spot wider needs: Identify where Stantec’s wider services can add value.
• Mentor colleagues: Support the growth of junior and mid-level team members.
• Set standards: Help define technical standards and ways of working.
• Support operations: Help shape the day-to-day development of the team.
• Improve outcomes: Deliver advice that is practical, clear and robust.

Fire Risk Responsibilities

This Fire Risk role is focused on safe, practical and evidence-led advice.

You will help clients manage legal duties, compliance needs and safety improvements across buildings and estates. You will also help make sure reports are clear, defensible and useful.

The role will suit someone who understands the real-world challenge of occupied buildings, live estates and complex client needs. Because theory is lovely until someone asks how it works in a building full of people, budgets and ageing fire doors.

About You

You will be an experienced fire risk professional who can lead complex work and give clear advice.

You will bring:

• Strong experience: Extensive experience delivering fire risk consultancy work.
• Leadership skills: The ability to lead projects, guide teams and support growth.
• Technical knowledge: Strong fire safety and fire risk assessment knowledge.
• Client confidence: The ability to act as a trusted adviser to clients.
• Quality focus: Experience reviewing high-level technical outputs.
• Commercial awareness: Confidence supporting proposals and winning new work.
• Problem solving: The ability to manage complex technical issues.
• Clear communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Team support: A strong interest in mentoring and developing colleagues.
• Strategic thinking: The ability to help shape client plans and team direction.

Key Fire Risk Skills

Stantec is looking for someone with strong skills in:

• Fire risk assessment
• Fire safety consultancy
• Technical report review
• Quality assurance
• Client strategy
• Fire safety improvement planning
• Regulatory guidance
• Project leadership
• Fee proposals
• Business development
• Team mentoring
• Technical standards
• Risk-based decision making

Your Impact

In this role, your work will help clients make better fire safety decisions.

You will support safer buildings, stronger evidence and clearer compliance plans. You will also help grow Stantec’s fire risk offer across the South.

Your impact will be seen in:

• Safer buildings
• Better client decisions
• Clearer fire safety programmes
• Stronger technical standards
• Better project quality
• More confident team members
• Long-term client relationships

Why Join Stantec?

Stantec offers a friendly, inclusive and collaborative work environment.

The business has been named in the top 50 companies to work for by Glassdoor in 2025. It was also recognised by Corporate Knights as one of the world’s top 10 most sustainable companies in 2025, and named Best Place to Work and International Consulting Firm of the Year at the NCE Awards 2024.

So yes, this is one of those rare employer blurbs with actual proof behind the adjectives. A small mercy.

Benefits

Stantec offers a strong benefits package, including:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus schemes
• Enhanced pension plan
• Annual leave with the option to buy or sell days
• Private medical insurance
• Group income protection
• Life assurance
• Discounted gym membership
• Paid professional subscriptions
• Industry-leading training and development
• Professional progression support
• Hybrid and flexible working

Diversity and Inclusion

Stantec is committed to equal employment opportunities.

The company welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and does not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Stantec also encourages applications from people who are excited by the role, even if their experience does not match every point.

Recruitment Support

Stantec wants candidates to perform at their best during the recruitment process.

If you need support or adjustments, contact careers.UK@stantec.com.

Application Tips

Use your CV to show clear examples of Fire Risk consultancy work.

Include projects where you led fire risk assessments, reviewed technical reports, advised clients or shaped fire safety improvement plans.

It will also help to show where you mentored colleagues, supported fee proposals, won work or improved technical standards. Keep your examples clear, specific and focused on outcomes.