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A rare, prestigious client-side opportunity has arisen for an accomplished, ambitious Fire Engineer to take on a region-wide leadership role with a globally renowned hospitality group as the Senior Fire Engineering Lead for EMEAA. This is an influential, newly created position in which you will be shaping fire safety strategy across a vast international portfolio, with direct impact on the safety of hundreds of thousands of people every day. If you're a highly driven Fire Engineer, strategic, and ready for a role where your decisions genuinely matter, this is an opening that will not come around often. The Senior Fire Engineering Lead's Role As the Senior Fire Engineering Lead, you will serve as the EMEAA region's fire engineering authority. Working closely with Regional Safety Directors and a broad stakeholder network, you'll guide strategy, influence key decisions and ensure fire safety standards are consistently elevated across diverse jurisdictions. Your role will blend technical leadership with collaboration, cultural awareness, and pragmatic problem solving. You will shape standards, support global consistency, and help local teams turn technical recommendations into meaningful, real-world action. Key Responsibilities Act as subject matter expert for fire engineering across EMEAAPartner with regional safety directors to embed robust, risk-based fire safety requirementsReview, translate and communicate consultant findings to local teams in clear, actionable termsLead fire strategies for both new build and existing assets, including retrospective and remediation workNavigate regional codes and regulations, providing clarity and confident guidanceBuild capability through tools, training and resourcesSupport incident response and investigations where requiredContribute to global consistency in fire safety systems an