The Senior Fire & Life Safety Project Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end management and delivery of Fire & Life Safety projects, with overall accountability for technical quality, commercial performance, programme, resources, client management and successful project completion.
The role requires strong technical knowledge across Fire & Life Safety disciplines, combined with proven project and commercial management capabilities. The Project Manager will lead multidisciplinary FLS teams, manage project risks and resources, control scope and budget, coordinate with clients and stakeholders, and ensure deliverables meet applicable codes, standards, authority requirements and contractual obligations.
- Provide overall technical leadership for Fire & Life Safety projects.
- Manage and coordinate technical inputs across:
- Fire and Life Safety strategies.
- Fire protection and firefighting systems.
- Fire alarm and detection systems.
- Passive fire protection.
- Smoke control and smoke management systems.
- Means of egress and evacuation.
- Fire and smoke compartmentation.
- Alternative and special fire suppression systems.
- Fire service access and firefighting provisions.
- Performance-based fire engineering solutions, where applicable.
- Ensure FLS designs and deliverables comply with applicable local codes, Civil Defence requirements, adopted international standards and project requirements.
- Review critical technical deliverables and ensure appropriate technical review and quality-control processes are completed before submission.
- Provide technical direction to project engineers, specialists and design-review teams.
- Lead resolution of complex technical issues and multidisciplinary interface matters.
- Ensure that technical decisions, assumptions, deviations and agreed design solutions are appropriately documented.
- Coordinate technical submissions and responses to Civil Defence and other relevant authorities.
- Lead technical workshops and meetings with clients, designers, contractors and approving authorities as required.