Senior Engineer

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Job Overview Jensen Hughes have a rare and exciting opportunity for a talented Senior Engineer to join our market leading Milan team and help us drive excellence across our projects and deliver world class fire and life safety solutions to our diverse client base in 2024
Jensen Hughes is a company fiercely committed to our purpose, our clients, and every single member of our team is essential to our success. Worldwide Jensen Hughes is recognized 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, Denmark, 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 industry/property clients. As a Project Manager at Jensen Hughes, you will be an integral part of a dynamic technical team, working with our experienced Engineers alongside other teams 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. You will be given early the opportunity to progress rapidly. Responsibilities In this role you will both manage the project and lead the project technically, managing all aspects related to fire risk. Manage external client and stakeholders, as well as internal staff to complete work on-time and within budget, including interfacing with teams working on other programs/projects in the location. Coordinate design and construction activities with the clients, consultants, and stakeholders. Oversee interdisciplinary teams and provide review and guidance to project team during development of project deliverables. 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 become the 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. Application of national and international legislation and standards on Fire and Life Safety in the various areas of corporate interest (civil, commercial and industrial) Project Review, Codes Consultancy. Field inspections (Europe). Advice and promotion of fire safety science. Application of risk analysis models. Requirements and Qualifications A background in fire engineering preferably within a consultancy environment, with a specific focus on fire protection systems design. A bachelor's degree or higher within any engineering specialties, e.g. civil, mechanical, environmental, chemical. The ability to undertake works independently. The ability and experience mentoring and managing junior professionals. Italian language fluency, written and spoken is essential. Excellent knowledge of English, written and spoken is desired. Willingness to make short but frequent national and European trips (at full capacity, 2-3 days every 1-2 weeks). Excellent knowledge of MS Office and AUTOCAD/BIM. Passion for the study of scientific subjects. The possession of registration on the lists of the Ministry of the Interior pursuant to Law 818/84 is not mandatory but will be considered as a preferential skill. The profile is completed by proactivity, operational autonomy, empathy and aptitude for contact with the customer. #LI-MR
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