Compiled 9 September 2026 · Edinburgh, Central Belt & remote UK

Fire protection engineering jobs, and the roles either side of it

Live adverts pulled from Adzuna, Indeed, Glassdoor, Scotjobsnet and employer sites, then sorted into fire engineering, fire safety, active and passive systems, and the commercial roles a fire engineer can step into. Starred roles are the ones worth opening first.

128 live roles95 in Edinburgh, Lothians, Fife, Glasgow & Central Belt33 remote or UK-wide★ = first lookPay shown only where the advert states it

Fire engineering & consultancy 27

Design, strategy, nuclear, litigation and expert-witness fire engineering. The straight-line move.

Fire safety, risk & compliance 15

Fire risk assessment, fire safety adviser and manager posts, building safety. Estate and public-sector employers, usually with pensions and hybrid patterns.

Active systems: sprinklers, alarms, suppression 35

Design, commissioning, service and management of sprinkler, alarm, detection, mist and suppression systems. Management and design roles suit an engineer; the service-engineer posts are listed for completeness.

Passive fire protection 3

Fire stopping, fire doors, dampers and compartmentation. A growing market in Scotland after the building-safety reforms.

Left and right: sales engineer, specification, estimating, business development 15

Roles where the technical credibility of a fire engineer is the selling point. Includes specification sales in adjacent building products and security sales engineering.

Remote and UK-wide 33

Adverts that state remote, hybrid, home-based or UK-wide working. Fire engineering consultancies increasingly hire fully remote at senior and principal level.

Employers to approach directly 27

Fire engineering consultancies and system houses with Edinburgh or Glasgow offices, plus the public-sector boards that carry fire safety posts. Every link was checked live on 9 September 2026.