Degree Apprentice Fire Engineer
bureau veritas
London (EC3R 6DL)
Closes in 15 days (Friday 19 June 2026)
Posted on 4 June 2026
Contents
Summary
Join Bureau Veritas as a Fire Engineering Degree Apprentice in London. Earn a fully funded BSc while gaining hands-on experience on real projects. Work alongside experts, develop technical skills, and start a meaningful career helping to make buildings and communities safer.
- Wage
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£28,500 a year
- Training course
- Fire safety engineer (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 40-hours per week, based in our London office.
Working hours are typically 08:30 - 17:30.
As part of the programme, you will attend the University of Central.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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2
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
👷♀️ What you’ll be doing:
As a Degree Apprentice Fire Engineer, you’ll be learning on the job while contributing to real projects.
You’ll:
- Support the design of fire safety strategies across a variety of buildings and projects
- Assist in developing fire safety reports, drawings, and technical documentation
- Learn how to apply UK and international fire safety regulations
Develop knowledge of smoke modelling, evacuation analysis, and fire protection systems - Work alongside experienced Fire Engineers, gaining hands‑on experience from day one
- Build the skills needed to become a fully qualified Fire Engineer
🌍 Why Bureau Veritas?
We don’t just offer jobs - we build careers.
- Purpose‑driven work: Help create safer buildings and communities
- Fully funded degree: Graduate without student debt
- Expert mentorship: Learn from experienced Fire Engineers
- Career progression: Clear pathway into a permanent Fire Engineer role
- Global organisation: Be part of an internationally recognised brand
- Supportive culture: We invest in your development from day one
📅 What happens next?
- Submit your application
- Complete an initial screening call
- Attend an assessment day in London (23rd June)
- Receive an offer and begin your journey with us in Sept 2026
Ready to get started?
If you’re looking for a career where you can learn, grow, and make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Where you'll work
Centennium House
100 Lower Thames Street
London
EC3R 6DL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF LANCASHIRE
Training course
Fire safety engineer (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Use and evaluate modelling software including smoke and evacuation models.
- Develop or review, safe, technical solutions to fire safety engineering problems through the use of research techniques, current and emerging technologies, products and innovations as well as best practice. Examples include: ability to use of range of research methods to collect and analyses data to draw well-founded practical conclusions for implementation, applicable research strategy and methodology, literature searches.
- Communicate and provide guidance to others using language to suit the audience through varying methods: design models, calculations, reports, drawings, specifications, presentations, digital media and discussions with those both inside and outside the industry.
- Demonstrate solutions proposed are safe and the level of safety they provide. Critically analyse prescriptive recommendations and alternative solutions, the use of bench-marking, cost and or benefit and sensitivity analysis.
- Present detailed fire safety engineering solutions for concept design and detailed design.
- Coordinate fire safety solutions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Review and interpret fire related information such as product certification and test reports, cause and effect information and design detail drawings.
- Carry out and record the continuing professional development necessary to maintain and enhance knowledge and competence as a fire safety engineer.
- Interpret and apply design and quality standards including codes of practice, legal and regulatory frameworks, in the development of fire engineering solutions, Examples include: planning, designing, construction and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure in compliance with current codes, standards and legislation, industry regulations.
- Evaluate the impact of fire safety engineering on society and the environment taking account of business, client and end user needs in its construction, management and use.
- Monitor and manage the planning, budgeting and organisation of tasks, people and resources for projects and change management activities, working to agreed quality standards, project programme and budget, legal, contractual and statutory requirements.
- Apply the principles of teamworking and developing staff across disciplines.
- Develop or review fire safety solutions and be able to objectively review, identify issues, offer alternative solutions or opinions including, fire engineered analysis, means of escape calculations, smoke ventilation calculations, heat transfer calculations and hazard identification and fire risk assessments.
- Use and evaluate modelling software including smoke and evacuation models.
- Develop or review, safe, technical solutions to fire safety engineering problems through the use of research techniques, current and emerging technologies, products and innovations as well as best practice. Examples include: ability to use of range of research methods to collect and analyses data to draw well-founded practical conclusions for implementation, applicable research strategy and methodology, literature searches.
- Communicate and provide guidance to others using language to suit the audience through varying methods: design models, calculations, reports, drawings, specifications, presentations, digital media and discussions with those both inside and outside the industry.
- Demonstrate solutions proposed are safe and the level of safety they provide. Critically analyse prescriptive recommendations and alternative solutions, the use of bench-marking, cost and or benefit and sensitivity analysis.
- Present detailed fire safety engineering solutions for concept design and detailed design.
- Coordinate fire safety solutions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Review and interpret fire related information such as product certification and test reports, cause and effect information and design detail drawings.
- Carry out and record the continuing professional development necessary to maintain and enhance knowledge and competence as a fire safety engineer.
- Interpret and apply design and quality standards including codes of practice, legal and regulatory frameworks, in the development of fire engineering solutions, Examples include: planning, designing, construction and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure in compliance with current codes, standards and legislation, industry regulations.
- Evaluate the impact of fire safety engineering on society and the environment taking account of business, client and end user needs in its construction, management and use.
- Monitor and manage the planning, budgeting and organisation of tasks, people and resources for projects and change management activities, working to agreed quality standards, project programme and budget, legal, contractual and statutory requirements.
- Apply the principles of teamworking and developing staff across disciplines.
- Develop or review fire safety solutions and be able to objectively review, identify issues, offer alternative solutions or opinions including, fire engineered analysis, means of escape calculations, smoke ventilation calculations, heat transfer calculations and hazard identification and fire risk assessments.
Training schedule
🎓 About the apprenticeship:
You’ll complete a Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), combining classroom learning with hands‑on experience.
Programme highlights:
- Duration: 4.5 years
- 4 years of academic study
- Final 6 months completing your End Point Assessment (EPA)
- Study location: UCLan campus, Preston
- Format: Block release (4 × two‑week blocks per year)
- Schedule: Monday - Friday, typically 09:00 - 16:00
We’ll support you every step of the way:
- 100% of tuition fees covered
- Travel and accommodation to the university paid
- Earn a salary while you learn
- Ongoing mentoring and structured development
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
BTEC in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and not require sponsorship.
This role is based in our London office, and candidates should be able to commute or be willing to relocate to the London area by the start date.
About this employer
An award-winning employer, our people are trusted and responsible, believing in what they do with a clear commitment to contribute to transforming the world we live in and shaping a world of trust. Bureau Veritas operates in a wide range of sectors, delivering Testing, Inspection and Certification services to some of the world’s biggest household names. With more than 400,000 global clients and a reputation for quality, we are at the forefront of service and innovation.
After this apprenticeship
On successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will achieve a BSc (Hons) in Fire Safety Engineering and progress into a permanent Fire Engineer role within the team.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY OF LANCASHIRE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000035148.
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Closes in 15 days (Friday 19 June 2026)
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