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Fire Safety Engineer - Remote Germany 18 month fixed term contract

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Experience in fire safety engineering and building design
  • Experience in the design, implementation, commissioning, certification and handover of MEP Fire Safety systems
  • A recognised qualification in fire safety engineering or a related discipline
  • Familiarity with German fire safety regulations

Responsibilities

  • Leading the process with IHG and the assigned project team to resolve identified IHG safety local code shortfalls
  • Tracking progress, maintaining auditable records and ensuring clear visibility of completion status
  • Working directly with IHG and the local hotel teams and stakeholders to agree practical solutions for complex properties
  • Conducting regular site visits to support implementation, provide resolution required and report on the progress of works

About the company

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IHG Hotels & Resorts

Hospitality (Hotels & Restaurants)

About IHG® IHG Hotels & Resorts [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good. With a family of 18 hotel brands and IHG One Rewards, one of the world's largest hotel loyalty programmes, IHG has over 6,000 open hotels in over 100 countries, and more than 1,900 in the development pipeline. Luxury & Lifestyle: Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas, Regent Hotels & Resorts, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Vignette Collection, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Hotel Indigo Premium: voco hotels, HUALUXE Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, EVEN Hotels Essentials: Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Express, avid hotels Suites: Atwell Suites, Staybridge Suites, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Candlewood Suites Exclusive Partners: Iberostar Beachfront Resorts InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated and registered in England and Wales. Approximately 345,000 people work across IHG's hotels and corporate offices globally. Visit us online for more about our hotels and reservations and IHG One Rewards. To download the new IHG One Rewards app, visit the Apple App or Google Play stores. For our latest news, visit our Newsroom and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryHospitality (Hotels & Restaurants)
Company size10001

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Job description

Location: Germany - Remote

Travel: Regular travel required across Northern Europe  


Whether you're leading at scale or ready to take on your next defining challenge, you'll find support, purpose and the scope to make a real impact at IHG Hotels & Resorts. Across every stage of your career, there's Room for You.  


About the role
We're looking for a fire safety engineer to join us in our Hotel Lifecycle & Growth team in Germany for an 18 month fixed term contract.  
This role will play a key part in the integration of portfolio hotel into IHG's brands. Working across IHG and various portfolio stakeholders, you'll coordinate and track the delivery of brand safety & local code requirements identified during the pre-deal due diligence process, helping ensure hotels are integrated safely, efficiently and within agreed timelines.
This is a highly visible role where you'll combine your general engineering understanding / experience and your specific fire safety competencies / expertise, stakeholder management and project leadership to help deliver safe and secure hotels for guests and colleagues while supporting successful owner outcomes.


Your day to day
You’ll play a key role in delivering safe, compliant hotels ready to open on schedule as IHG-branded properties.
In this role, you will ensure IHG brand standards and local regulatory requirements are assessed, documented, and aligned to project timelines.

•    Leading the process with IHG and the assigned project team to resolve identified IHG safety & local code shortfalls.  
•    Tracking progress, maintaining auditable records and ensuring clear visibility of completion status.  
•    Working directly with IHG and the local hotel teams and stakeholders to agree practical solutions for complex properties.  
•    Conducting regular site visits to support implementation, provide and issue resolution required and report on the progress of works.  
•    Act as a central point of communication, coordination and reporting for all project stakeholders across the duration of the signing to opening program.  
•    Remain engaged post opening to ensure any unfinished activities are addressed and to support the Hotel Operator in the first few months

What we need from you
We're looking for someone with strong technical expertise, excellent project management skills, and the ability to build relationships across multiple stakeholder groups.
You'll bring:
•    Experience in fire safety engineering and building design
•    Experience in the design, implementation, commissioning, certification and handover of MEP & Fire Safety systems.  
•    A recognised qualification in fire safety engineering or a related discipline.  
•    Familiarity with German fire safety regulations.  
•    Familiarity with international fire safety codes and risk-based fire safety assessments.  
•    Fluent business-level English, both written and spoken. German language skills are ideal, but not strictly required
•    Strong organisation, stakeholder management, and project coordination skills.  

Your ambition. Your growth. Your success

If this is You, there's Room for You.  
 

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