Fire Engineer - Building Compliance

About the Role

As one of Ireland’s most progressive and people-focused building consultancies, we are strengthening our building compliance team with an experienced Fire Engineer. ORS is a leading provider of assigned certifier, technical advisory, quality assurance and quality control services in Ireland.

This role offers the opportunity to work across a broad range of commercial, residential, healthcare, industrial, and mixed-use developments nationwide. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring projects achieve compliance with Building Regulations and fire safety standards while supporting quality assurance throughout design, construction, and project completion stages.

You will work closely with clients, design teams, contractors, and specialist consultants, contributing technical expertise across both mechanical and electrical building services systems while supporting project certification and compliance processes.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in driving construction quality, improving project delivery standards, and contributing to technically challenging and high-profile developments.

Key Responsibilities

• Review designs for compliance with the building regulations and fire safety standards and FSC compliance, report design non-compliances and risks, workshop with design team to develop most suitable design solution for client requirements
• Review fire safety strategies, fire engineering designs, and compliance documentation
• Review installations relating to fire safety on site for compliance with Building Regulations and project specifications. Undertake benchmark inspections relating to fire safety items.
• Coordinate inspections and compliance activities throughout all project stages
• Carry out site inspections to monitor compliance with fire safety requirements, Building Regulations, and approved designs
• Coordinate with design teams, contractors, and specialist consultants to resolve fire safety and compliance issues
• Review drawings, specifications, ancillary certificates, and project documentation
• Review technical submittals where required on Projects
• Support the preparation and management of inspection plans and certification records
• Review and collate quality documentation, and handover records, witness Testing and Commissioning of M&E systems to verify operation and cause and effect and fire safety strategies
• Monitor construction quality and ensure fire stopping, compartmentation, and life safety systems are installed in accordance with specifications
• Provide technical guidance relating to fire safety regulations, standards, and best practice
• Develop and maintain strong client and stakeholder relationships while delivering high-quality consultancy services
• Chair, participate and contribute in project meetings, with both internal and external stakeholders

Essential Requirements

• Degree in Fire Engineering, Building Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline
• Strong experience in fire engineering, building compliance, or construction consultancy
• Significant on-site experience with strong understanding of construction methods and fire safety installations
• Excellent technical knowledge of Building Regulations, BCAR requirements, and fire safety legislation
• Experience reviewing fire strategies, technical drawings, and construction documentation
• Strong understanding of passive and active fire protection systems
• Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage compliance processes across multiple projects
• Proactive approach with strong attention to detail and commitment to technical excellence

Desirable Requirements

• Chartered Engineer status or progression toward chartership
• Experience carrying out the Assigned Certifier role on Project including inspections and certification activities under BCAR
• Experience carrying out technical advisory or quality assurance/quality control services on projects
• Experience across commercial, residential, healthcare, or industrial developments
• Familiarity with fire modelling, evacuation analysis, or performance-based fire engineering approaches
• Knowledge of commissioning, testing, and certification processes for fire safety systems
• Leadership or mentoring experience within project or compliance teams

What We Can Offer You

Being part of ORS means more than just a job, it means joining a company that invests in you and your ambitions with transparency, structure and support.

We are delighted to offer a suite of benefits when you join ORS, which include:

• Competitive salary
• Performance-related bonus
• Pension scheme with matching contributions
• Remote-first hybrid model – use your home as a base and any of our office locations as you see fit
• Work from abroad
• Flexible working hours
• Access to over 60 health disciplines through our Kara Connect Platform
• Continuous Professional development (CPD) programme & funding
• Paid maternity, paternity and fertility leave
• Company and birthday annual leave days
• Death in Service benefit
• Tax saver - travel and bike to work
• Culture, social, wellness and CPD committees
• Talent Development Programmes
• Access to leading career coach Gerry Duffy

About ORS

ORS is a world-class multidisciplinary building consultancy with more than 30 years of delivering technical excellence across the built environment. Our mission is simple but powerful: We endeavour to make the lives of our team, clients, partners and communities happier and better in the ways that really matter every single day.

Don’t just take our word for it! ORS has won numerous awards, recognising our Great Place to Work culture.

• Winner of the Engineering Consultancy of the Year at the Engineering Excellence Awards 2025
• Winner of the Graduate Programme of the Year at the Engineering Excellence Awards 2025
• Winner of the Best Company to Work For at the Irish Design & Build Awards 2024 & 2025
• Winner of the Best People Development of the Year at the Engineering Excellence Awards 2024
• Winner of the Recruitment & Retention Strategy at the Workplace Excellence Awards 2024
• Great Place to Work certified consecutively since 2017
• Top 3 Company Best Workplaces in the medium-sized category at the Great Place to Work awards 2025
• Best Workplaces for Health & Wellbeing 2025 Great Place to Work
• Engineers Ireland CPD Accreditation since 20217
• Awarded for Hybrid Way of Working at the 2022 Great Place to Work Awards
• Silver Accreditation through Investors in Diversity 2025

ORS is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive company culture. We foster a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects and supports their individual strengths and experiences.