Graduate Fire Engineer - Birmingham - 2026

Overview

With every community, Stantec redefines what’s possible.

Application deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

We’re looking for a Graduate Fire Engineer to join our progressive, award-winning Fire Engineering team in our Birmingham office as part of our 2026 Graduate Programme, delivering sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.

Our Fire Engineering team has earned a reputation for delivering technically excellent work. From concept to construction, our fire engineering expertise helps optimise design and ensure complex buildings are compliant with regulations. We have extensive experience across public sector, residential, commercial, industrial, and high-hazard process projects, providing services from site appraisal through planning, design, and delivery.

We are looking for graduates with a passion for the built environment and the desire to work in a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team focused on sustainability, technical excellence, and shaping construction in the UK and overseas. Our projects will inspire you, build your confidence, and enable you to take on the biggest challenges throughout your career.

Your Role

You’ll work with the support of your manager and senior colleagues on activities such as:

• Fire engineering design on a number of projects.
• Early-stage strategic input to design.

We provide comprehensive fire safety services to clients across sectors.

About You

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. You will bring a degree and/or master’s qualification in a relevant engineering discipline with modules relating to fire safety and fire engineering, and a keen interest in our industry.

• An Adapter: Able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic tasks.
• A Perseverer: Composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
• A Collaborator: Effective working with diverse teams, considering others’ perspectives to shape better outcomes.
• A Problem-Solver: Willing to share ideas based on what you observe, unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.

Please note: Graduates are asked to come into the office a minimum of four days per week to ensure sufficient time with your team and the appropriate level of support.

What We Offer

• A competitive salary.
• Private medical insurance.
• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection, and life assurance.
• Permanent employment contract demonstrating our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec.
• Professional progression plan, supporting you to attain professional status.
• A supportive and collaborative team environment, Early Careers peer group, and a wider Employee Resource Group (ERG) network.

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 32,000 employees working in over 450 locations across six continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver, and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy, and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We address today’s challenges while keeping a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy, and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations, or any other condition of employment. Stantec complies with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is crucial to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

We are committed to an accessible recruitment process. If you need support or require adjustments to be made, we will work with you to ensure you can perform at your best at every stage.