Fire Safety Engineers

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether its improving your commute keeping the lights on providing access to clean water or transforming skylines our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our global Buildings and Places business line brings together a versatile and collaborative term of urban planning building design and engineering professionals working to create liveable sustainable and equitable cities.

Our extensive expertise cover urbanism and planning architecture building and systems engineering and cost project and construction management.  

Together with our clients we are working to evolve and elevate the built environment across sectors including social infrastructure transit technology and logistics and commercial and corporate real estate whilst focusing on solutions that promote long term health and wellbeing for all.

The Role 

Due to a healthy pipeline of work we are looking for Fire Safety Engineers to join our team based in Melbourne Sydney and Brisbane to work on a range of projects. 

What will a day in this role look like: 

• Applying and developing fire engineering expertise across large-scale projects from concept and design development through to construction and building occupation
• Contributing to developing and/or leading performance-based design briefs fire engineering assessments and technical reports across a diverse range of building and infrastructure projects
• Undertaking fire engineering analysis and advisory services including the application of computational modelling techniques for fluid flow fire dynamics and evacuation as appropriate to project requirements and experience
• Contributing to the successful delivery of projects and client outcomes across a variety of markets with opportunities to take on increasing levels of technical project and client responsibility
• Working collaboratively with senior team members and supporting project management and delivery while contributing to the development and mentoring of junior team members where appropriate.

Qualifications :

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired but if you dont tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply all applications will be considered.  

The qualities that help you thrive

• Experience delivering projects in Fire Safety within a consulting environment
• A relevant Engineering qualification (preferably in Fire Engineering) alongside a thorough understanding of the Building Code of Australia
• Experience in the preparation of Performance Based Design Briefs Fire Engineering Reports and Fire Engineering Strategies
• A strong background in the use of computer-based modelling alongside exposure to negotiating with approval authorities on performance-based designs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (both written and verbal) when dealing with internal and external stakeholders

Join us and lets get started.

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Additional Information :

At AECOM we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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AECOM is the worlds trusted infrastructure consulting firm delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory planning design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation buildings water new energy and the environment our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise a culture of equity diversity and inclusion and a commitment to environmental social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether youre working from an AECOM office remote location or at a client site you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity diversity and inclusion a safe and respectful workplace where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time