About the role
PTL Structural & Fire are looking for a fire engineer to join our dynamic team of structural engineers and fire engineers. The role may be based at our head office in Christchurch or at our satellite offices in Auckland or Queenstown, depending on the candidate’s suitability.
Role Requirements
The successful candidate will be PTL’s full-time fire engineer, enhancing PTL fire engineering consultancy business and contributing towards cutting-edge, sustainable building fire safety design involving mass timber.
The successful candidate will:
Have an internationally recognised tertiary degree in fire engineering e.g. Masters of Fire Engineering
Have NZ based consulting experience in fire engineering, preferably 1-3 years
Have preferably some experiences in structural engineering or structural fire engineering
Have excellent interpersonal skills, to foster peers/clients relationships
Be able to learn quickly and work independently to deliver high-quality project outcomes
Benefits
The opportunity to work on a wide range of building projects, including residential, commercial and industrial buildings and specialised mass timber designs
The opportunity to enhance knowledge in mass timber fire safety through on-going building projects, research projects, and regulatory projects
A competitive renumeration package tailored to the candidate's consulting experience and expertise including performance-based bonuses
An opportunity to join PTL's Employee Share Option Programme (ESOP), providing the employee with a chance to have ownership in PTL and share in its success
An opportunity to work closely with various universities and research institutes through on-going, mutually beneficial collaborations in structural engineering, fire engineering and timber engineering
Flexible working arrangements to achieve important work life balance and family commitments
About us
PTL Structural & Fire are a team of highly skilled structural engineers and fire engineers specializing in the design and construction of a wide range of buildings. With over 50 years combined experience in applying state-of-the-art techniques to design innovative and functional structures, PTL engineers provide professional consulting services, working in partnership with developers, architects, and construction companies to deliver building projects of high quality with real buildability. PTL Structural & Fire work with all structural materials and are recognized as global leader in mass timber building design. As inventors and key developers of the Pres-Lam structural system, PTL Structural & Fire are at the forefront of this emerging mass timber market as experts in large-scale engineered timber buildings.