AESG is an International Specialist Consultancy, Engineering, And Advisory firm, with offices across the UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Singapore dedicated to help solve our clients greatest challenges, through collaboration, innovation, and advanced technical solutions.
Our areas of expertise are represented in five core verticals: Planning, Design & Engineering, Masterplanning & Infrastructure, Asset Management and Transaction Support.
We pride ourselves in being leaders in the industry in each of the services that we offer. We have one of the largest dedicated team with decades of cumulative experience in sustainable design, fire and life safety, façade engineering, commissioning, building performance, waste management, environmental consultancy, carbon management and acoustics.
Job Description
Due to the continuing success and growth of our UK team, AESG are seeking an Associate Director - Fire Engineering to support the growing Fire & Life Safety division and work alongside our other specialist disciplines. The role will be to support the successful delivery of UK and international projects, working with project team Design Engineers and Senior Consultants throughout all project phases, whilst also including independent project management of complex design and construction projects, covering all aspects of Fire Engineering.
This role requires you to be an experienced leader with high levels of design experience in fire engineering whilst also including ability across strategy writing and project delivery to our clients.
This role offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated Associate Director seeking a team leadership role within a growing and ambitious company with a unique service offering.
The Ideal Candidate Fits the Below Profile:
- Proven leader with experience in growing a fire engineering design team
- Experience in numerous complex and prestigious projects across the UK
- Strong communication skills, a thought leader in the industry
- Motivated and self-driven (entrepreneurial outlook)
- Committed to technical excellence
- Good relationship builder (internal and external)
- Collaborative personality
Job Purpose:
- Facilitate growth of the AESG Fire division across London and the wider UK market, whilst leveraging the AESG brand to strengthen our presence in the international fire markets.
- Leading fire design service line, managing team of designers and engineers.
- Hold responsibility for leadership with client development and team growth.
- Continuing the growth and development of our Fire & Life Safety offering to the UK and international markets
- Strong track record of business development in London and the wider UK market
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead business development activities to achieve revenue targets for the fire division.
- Demonstrable business development network and desire to grow a team around you.
- Financial responsibility to ensure business profitability.
- Independently manage complex projects with multifaceted technical scope and stakeholder management both internally and externally.
- Experience in supporting the production of proposals, bids and Requests for Proposals (RFP) responses.
- Ability to assess and understand design proposals and advise on associated risk.
- Develop business plans and strategies for capitalising on existing relationships and entering new markets.
- Strong leadership, interpersonal / people management, and mentoring skills to support senior leadership in building the regional team, reviewing staff performance, coaching, mentoring employees, driving training initiatives and continuous technical improvement in the division.
- Development of fire management strategies and business growth.
Essential Skills:
- BEng/BSc in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or similar.
- BSc or MSc in Fire Engineering preferred.
- Minimum of 8 (eight) years’ experience across fire engineering
- Minimum of 4+ (four) years’ experience in a client facing role.
- Demonstratable network and experience in winning work across major built environment projects.
- Demonstratable experience in leading and facilitating the growth of design teams.
- UK experience with international experience preferred.
- Excellent technical knowledge in Fire Safety / Engineering within Residential, Commercial and Hotels sectors.
- A thorough understanding of Fire Engineering and interdisciplinary design through all stages of the design process.
- Ability to deliver & control project delivery, within time and budget.
Why Join AESG?
AESG is a multidisciplinary specialist consultancy, offering a consultancy service and work environment like no other.
Through our world-class reputation for innovative thinking, pushing projects to outperform expectations through smart application of planning, engineering and architectural solutions, our project portfolio includes some of the worlds most forward-thinking and exciting new developments.
The success of our company is built on the success of individuals. Our ability to achieve what we have is because our staff are driven, passionate and love what they do.
As An Employee of AESG You Can Expect:
- A huge amount of freedom for our high-performing employees
- Great career opportunities as the company continue to grow, with access to huge variety of projects and incredible clients
- Working on some of the worlds leading developments and tackling our clients greatest challenges
- Commitment in building on your areas of specialism and focal interest points, supporting your professional development through a structured training and mentorship program
- Highly collaborative approach across the different technical service offerings
- Promotion of the importance of health and well-being of the team, including team-building fitness activities, social events and the provision of a healthy work environment
- To be part of a dynamic and motivated team with an amazing team culture
