Graduate Fire Engineer (Available 2027)

About the Role

Arup is a global consultancy seeking Graduate Fire Engineers to join their Early Careers program. This role focuses on guiding, planning, and designing the future of the built environment, helping to solve complex challenges facing clients, climate, and communities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide consulting for life safety, building, and fire code compliance.
• Contribute to the development of prescriptive and performance-based design strategies.
• Assist senior engineers with incorporating fire and life safety strategy concepts into designs and reviewing drawings for conformance.
• Assist with the development of fire alarm, detection, and fire suppression systems design documents.
• Assist senior engineers on project site visits and communicate with architects, contractors, and consulting teams.
• Participate in internal team meetings and external client meetings.
• Adapt to working with multiple teams, across multiple offices in a multi-discipline environment.
• Perform smoke control analysis.
• Assist with fire modeling.
• Assist with dynamic egress modeling.
• Assist with the development of structural fire calculations.
• Assist with the development of fire safety strategies for special hazards.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's Degree in Fire Protection, Mechanical, Chemical, or Civil Engineering.
• Professional demeanor.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Skills in planning and organizing.
• Attitude of taking initiative, enthusiasm, eagerness to learn.
• Candidate must be eligible to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future.
• No more than 12 months of full-time experience in a comparable role.
• Recently graduated, or on track to graduate, from your most recent degree before employment starts.

Qualifications

• Changemakers: A passion for sustainable development and creating a better world.
• Innovative minds: Critical thinkers who embrace new ideas and challenge the status quo.
• Growth seekers: A growth mindset, always eager to learn and explore new ways of working.
• Adaptable adventurers: Ready to take on any challenge.

Note: The role is available for graduates in 2027.