Technical Director

Overview

Jensen Hughes have a rare and exciting opportunity for a talented Technical Director to join our market leading Dublin team and help us drive excellence across our projects and deliver world class life safety solutions to our diverse client base into 2024! Our Dublin team have had a record-breaking year with some truly impressive successes to shout about, now is a great time to join us.

Jensen Hughes is a company fiercely committed to our purpose, our clients, and each other, every single member of our team is essential to our success. Worldwide Jensen Hughes are recognised most widely for our leadership in fire protection engineering. 1,500+ employees work together to advance the science of safety every day. Since 1939, we have been at the leading edge of safety, security and risk-based engineering and consulting, serving the most complex global projects. In addition, we pride ourselves on driving code and standard development and adoption throughout the world and across industries. 

Why join us to grow your career:

• We are the largest fire consultancy in Europe with offices located in Belgium, Finland, Italy, and the UK & Ireland. Our reputation for providing innovative, design focused solutions has made us the consultant of choice for many of Europe’s leading property clients.
• As a senior professional Fire Engineer at Jensen Hughes, you will be an integral part of a dynamic senior technical team, working with our experienced Engineers alongside other teams including our Forensics division you will work on the industries leading technical projects.
• Working with us offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities for this role include:

• To maintain a high level of professional awareness of technical matters in the fire industry, assimilate and synthesise developing technical issues and provide updates and briefings as required.
• Guiding our fire engineering professionals, along with advising and delivering complex solutions to large construction engineering projects within leading consultancies.
• Taking control of current and future projects and ensuring that financial targets of the team are met and exceeded, develop existing relationships with key clients and deliver fire safety engineering solutions
• Drive behind the delivery of technical excellence, team engagement, and the go-to in developing their key clients in this discipline.
• Be the expert to our clients and that all important first point of call.
• Lead discussion with design team, building control and fire service.
• Attend industry conferences to Network and embrace industry trends and best practices
• Supervise and train graduate engineers.

Qualifications

Here’s What You’ll Need:

To set you up for success in this role from day one (at a minimum) the following qualifications/experience are required:

• A background in fire engineering preferably within a consultancy environment
• A bachelor’s degree or higher within Fire engineering
• Ideally working towards becoming a Chartered engineer
• The right to work in Ireland 
• The ability to undertake works independently
• The ability and desire to mentor and manage our young professionals

Why you should join Jensen Hughes: 

• You will work with market-leading clients
• You’ll have support from the leadership team
• You’ll be given flexibility to work where and when you want
• You will have the backing of a leading international firm
• Career advancement with an established framework is in place clearly defining expectations and outlining opportunities for promotion

Our Culture & Benefits

People are Jensen Hughes greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. The benefits within the Europe include:

• Free single medical cover
• Reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.
• We also give back to our communities through a giving programme which incorporates business
• funding for employee chosen charities
• We express appreciation for a job well done openly and often at Jensen Hughes — through kind words or one of our formal programmes such as our Annual Excellence Awards or peer-to-peer awards — and celebrate our team efforts.

These benefits represent a solid investment in Jensen Hughes and its employees. We will frequently review the benefits programme and consider modifications as appropriate based on statutory requirements, the needs and preferences of our people, market trends, and the Company’s aims and overall performance.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns, and locations to suit both you and our business.

We lead with our Purpose + Principles and value our people. We believe that creating and sustaining a culture of trust, integrity and professional growth fundamentally includes a sustained and unwavering commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. With offices around the globe, our workforce is made up of professionals from many different backgrounds. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. Our differences and uniqueness are celebrated and reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks

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