Senior Design Engineer (Fire Sprinklers)

£50-60,000 per annum + bonus + benefits

Manchester

Are you an experienced Design Engineer with a solid track record in developing fire sprinkler systems for commercial, residential and/or industrial projects? Are you analytical, methodical and looking for an opportunity to join a highly successful and expanding engineering firm to progress your career? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

On behalf of our client based in Manchester, we’re recruiting for a Senior Design Engineer to undertake all design-related activities, ensuring compliance with industry standards, providing technical guidance and working closely with project managers and installation teams to ensure the efficient completion of projects.

You’ll be joining a small but established design team in an ambitious company that has delivered significant growth over the past 5 years and has a pipeline of projects to fulfil. You’ll need to be organised and self-managed, able to hit the ground running and keen to contribute to the company’s plans for continued growth.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Creating and reviewing fire sprinkler system designs, ensuring compliance with BSEN12845 & BS9251:2021 standards, local building codes, and client specifications.
• Working with sales and project teams to develop and review proposals, ensuring accurate, cost-effective and feasible estimates.
• Serving as a key point of contact for design-related queries from clients, contractors and internal teams, providing technical oversight and guidance on complex design challenges.
• Working closely with project managers and installation teams to ensure delivery milestones are met and proper installation of designed systems.
• Ensuring that all designs are thoroughly checked for compliance with BS standards, building codes, and insurance requirements, including conducting site visits where necessary.
• Maintaining design records and as-built documentation, ensuring that all design documentation is properly maintained and updated throughout.

Suitable candidates will need to demonstrate:

• Ideally 3 years+ experience in fire sprinkler design in a similar role within residential and / or commercial projects
• Robust working knowledge and expertise in fire sprinkler regulations and industry standards
• Relevant qualifications such as LPCB Basic Design Qualification as minimum – Intermediate & FHC preferable. Residential Design Qualification.
• High level of competency in design software such as AutoCAD or Revit
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation and workload management skills
• Initiative, accountability and ability to handle a busy workload.
• First-class communication and team-working skills.

In return, the company offers a starting salary of £50-60,000 plus annual company performance bonus and comprehensive benefits package. Hours of work are Monday-Friday 9.00am-5.00pm based from the office in Manchester with flexibility as required. Training and development available with excellent career prospects.

To apply, please submit your CV by clicking on the relevant links. If successful, you will be contacted by one of our consultants within 3 working days. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we expect to receive for this Senior Design Engineer role, if you do not hear from us within this time, you should presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Grassroots Recruitment is acting as a recruitment agency and a recruitment business in respect of this Senior Design Engineer vacancy. Grassroots Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and recruiter. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion or disability.