Senior Engineer: Fire & Life Safety (Saudi National)
On-siteSa, Madang Province, Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Job Summary
Conduct fire risk assessments, inspections, and audits across the full asset lifecycle, applying SBC 201, SBC 801, and NFPA standards to ensure compliance and manage deficiencies. Execute tactical (Silver) incident command during fire and evacuation events, interfacing with Saudi Civil Defense and the City Command Unit to direct operational resources and manage evacuations. Review fire strategies, performance-based designs, and shop drawings during design and construction phases, then witness commissioning, integrated system testing, and readiness verification prior to handover. Investigate incidents and near misses to establish root causes, analyze data for continuous improvement, and support training and safety culture initiatives for staff and contractors.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Fire Safety Engineering, Fire Engineering, Building Engineering, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Leadership and Sustainability, or a related discipline
- Minimum 6 years of progressive experience in fire and life safety, fire engineering, fire safety inspection or fire and emergency response operations, including significant experience in a senior technical role
- NEBOSH Certificate or Diploma in Fire Safety, or equivalent recognized international fire safety qualification
- Demonstrable experience completing and signing off fire risk assessments for complex, high-occupancy or high-consequence premises
- Proven experience delivering fire and life safety inspection and audit programs, and driving deficiency close-out to completion
- Practical operational response experience with assessed competence at tactical or Silver command level, including live incidents, exercises or drills
- Experience across the asset lifecycle including design review, construction assurance, commissioning witnessing and operational readiness
- Background in a fire and rescue service, industrial or aviation fire service, fire safety regulator or enforcing authority, combined with consultancy or client-side experience
- Exposure to major event fire safety, temporary demountable structures, pyrotechnics, special effects and crowd safety
- Experience with performance-based design, fire and evacuation modelling review, and alternative solutions in a regulated environment
- Familiarity with theme park and attraction fire safety, ride evacuation, and back-of-house and show production risk
- Strong knowledge of SBC 201 and SBC 801 (2024), Saudi Civil Defense requirements, NFPA standards including NFPA 1, 101, 72, 13, 20, 25, 1660, 1750
- Competence in fire risk assessment methodology, risk rating, control selection and significant findings reporting
- Experience in fire and life safety inspection, audit, deficiency management, impairment control and permit-to-work regimes
- Strong understanding of fire strategies, compartmentation, means of escape, smoke control, suppression, detection, alarm and fire water systems
- Competence in incident command at tactical or Silver
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