Structural Fire Engineer

Engineering Sydney Full Time

30/9/2025

• Structural Fire Engineer opportunity
• Dynamic team environment
• Forward thinking innovative company

Our vision at Holmes is to be more representative of the communities we serve—and the places we live and work. Holmes people are encouraged to dream big and empowered to achieve their goals in an environment where we recognise and value diversity. Our commitment is to provide all of our great people equal support and equal opportunity to thrive, grow and develop.

About the business

Holmes is a specialist fire engineering consultancy with an unrivalled talent for the integration of fire engineering through design collaboration.

Our Australian operation expanded from New Zealand 25 years ago and has continued to go from strength to strength with offices located in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Our 100+professionals globally strive to deliver creative and practical solutions to our clients' most dynamic challenges. Part of Holmes Group – an exceptional international group of businesses that work together on some of the most exciting and iconic projects in the world - you'll be joining a world class organisation that is going places.

There's a real sense of energy and momentum at Holmes. Hard work is a big part of what has got us where we are today, but it's not the driving factor. At Holmes we're a friendly, relaxed team that loves getting stuck into great projects, with plenty of fun and good times along the way. We celebrate and reward successes, nurture continuous career development, and always look for opportunities to make our work environment more motivating and inspirational. Our people love having the freedom to do great work, underpinned by the robust infrastructure and resources required to consistently deliver high-quality solutions.

This is a great opportunity for a structural fire engineer to become an integral part of our dynamic team. We are a forward thinking, innovative company, constantly looking at new technologies and ways of doing things. We offer interesting and challenging work, and a great company culture, office locations and work/life balance.

If you've got the experience we're looking for, a deep love of quality fire engineering, and the personality and determination to deliver some of Australia's most exciting and innovative buildings, please get in touch.

About the role

The role will include but not be limited to:

• Building Code of Australia assessments, based on drawing review and site inspections
• Preparation of fee proposals
• Preparation of fire engineering performance based design solutions, for new and existing buildings, utilising: Qualitative and quantitative egress assessments, qualitative and quantitative fire and smoke spread assessments, radiant heat calculations
• Performing computer modelling of fire and smoke using Fire Dynamics Simulator (NIST)
• Performing computer modelling of occupant emergency evacuation using spreadsheet calculations, Simulex, Evacnet, Pathfinder, and similar evacuation models
• Assessing structural systems and materials exposed to fire through computational methods outlined in standards, research papers and proprietary software programs including SAFIR
• Use structural fire engineering to verify the fire rating of bespoke or project-specific structural systems that have not been fire-tested. This can include wall-slab junctions, fire-rated roof systems, and connections between protected and unprotected members.
• Apply structural fire engineering principles to assess existing and heritage significant structures with respect to achieving adequate fire resistance with or without remediation.
• Attend site inspections and meetings with clients, project managers, design teams and approval authorities
• Provide and attend in-house and external technical sessions and seminars
• Coordinating with clients, consultants and enforcing agencies in relation to fire safety aspects of projects, balancing project delivery against the approved budgets
• Maintaining organized project information and clear understanding of project tasks/schedule
• Mentoring, training and coaching junior and mid level engineers

Benefits and perks

Working for Holmes is more than a job, we pride ourselves on our great culture and that starts with great people. Holmes is very open to flexible working. We also operate a profit share system as well as a performance bonus system.

Skills and experience

Minimum 8 years and Undergraduate or Masters qualification in Structural Fire / Fire Safety / Protection Engineering

Location

Sydney