About the job
Main Areas of Responsibility:
Throughout the 4-year apprenticeship, you will complete compulsory modules designed to help you gain the required skills and knowledge in Fire Engineering.
These modules will teach you how to apply scientific and engineering principles and codes of guidance, understand how fires develop and their effects, and learn about the interaction of fire with buildings, people, and the environment.
For the duration of your apprenticeship, you will be working under the close guidance of your mentor.
Year 1 Fire Engineering Apprenticeship Compulsory Modules:
Introduction to Combustion and Fire
- The aim of this module is to introduce the fundamentals of combustion and fire, with the main goal being to understand combustion, fire, and explosion phenomena.
Safety and Fire Law
- This module covers the basics of the UK legal system, understanding the employment relationship, and developing basic leadership, management, and teamwork skills.
Energy Transfer and Thermodynamics
- This module introduces the necessary elements for further education in building and fire safety engineering, covering principles of energy transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics.
Engineering Design Practice
- This module introduces a simple design to develop a scientific and analytical approach to solving environmental/safety control problems in the built environment.
Building, Materials and Fire
- This module introduces the functional requirements of materials for structures, investigating materials used and examining key construction methods.
Engineering Analysis 1
- This module develops fundamental calculus and mathematical skills, providing techniques to analyse engineering problems through practice.
Skills for Science and Engineering
- This module develops mathematical, analytical, IT, communication, and research skills essential for course progression.
Year 2 Fire Engineering Apprenticeship Compulsory Modules:
Fluid Dynamics of Fires
- This module covers fluid flow principles applied to flames, fires, and explosions, building on level one themes to improve understanding of combustion, fire, and explosion phenomena.
Fire and the Built Environment
- This module develops your understanding of fire impact on the built environment, covering construction, materials, smoke control, regulations, standards, and fire behaviour through national and international case studies.
Accidents and Catastrophes
- This module develops your awareness of accident and catastrophe phenomena and their societal impact, exploring technological accidents and case studies of fire impact on buildings, and building employability skills including independent working, analysis, problem solving, presentations, and group work.
Safety, Health and Environment
- This module covers key areas of workplace health and safety, focusing on hazard identification and control.
Project Management
- This module focuses on the role and responsibilities of a project manager, including leadership and organisation skills, and developing analytical, monitoring, and controlling techniques.
Computational Engineering
- This module introduces fire hazard analysis and provides skills in using specialist software to solve computational fire engineering problems.
Engineering Analysis 2
- This module builds upon previously learned skills, providing mathematical skills for the final stage of study, and teaching the use of infinite series, integral calculus, differential equations, and matrix algebra to solve common engineering problems.
Year 3 Fire Engineering Apprenticeship Compulsory Modules:
Enclosure Fire Dynamics
- This module provides an understanding of enclosure fire and control mechanisms, exploring relationships, solutions, and models for fire safety design and investigations, while also building employability skills including independent working, analysis, problem solving, presentations, and working with others.
Fire Protection Engineering
- This module aims to develop your skills in numerical analyses. You will evaluate different appropriate fire protection applications.
Fire Investigation
- This module develops your ability to investigate fires for officials, covering scene recognition, fire dynamics, fire setter motives, evidence analysis, and investigation structure for various incidents.
Probabilistic Risk Analysis
- This module develops theoretical and practical systems analysis and probability theory, introducing probabilistic risk assessment and modelling in technical systems, and building independent working, analysis, modelling, and problem-solving skills.
Engineering Design Project
- This module develops individual and team engineering design skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, and key skills through case studies.
Engineering Dissertation
- This module involves independent study (theoretical, computational, experimental, or investigative analysis) to enhance your research, communication, and evaluation skills.
About you
Role Requirements:
Skills/Qualifications:
Essential:
• Good level of communication skills
• Good time manager with tenacity and ability to work under pressure.
• A high concern for standards
• A high concern for detail
• Ability to use own initiative to complete key work
• Customer care relations
• Good team working skills
• Adaptable and flexible
• Willingness to travel as required for study
• Located in the North East of England
Applicants are also required to have ONE of the following:
• BCC at A2 including Mathematics OR Science subject (Physics, Chemistry, Environmental Science)
• Relevant National Diploma grades DMM
• IB 24 Points including maths or Science at Grade 5
• Maths and English GCSE at Grade C/4 or equivalent
• Applicants will be required to have a minimum level of proficiency in English Language equivalent to IELTS Grade 6 with no subscore lower than 5.5.
• Applicants from individuals with non-standard qualifications, relevant work or life experience and who can demonstrate the ability to cope with and benefit from degree-level studies
• Candidates who have not studied recently may be required to undertake an Access programme.
We have provided the link below to the University Apprenticeship: https://www.lancashire.ac.uk/degree-apprenticeships/courses/fire-engineering-beng
Falck's Winning Behaviours:
Our Winning Behaviours define how we act towards our customers, society and each other. They are the foundation of what we do, the services we deliver and the company that we are. They provide clarity in how we act in our daily work and aspiration for how we can be even better.
Winning Behaviours at Falck are specific, actionable and motivational statements that are centred around behaviour. Behaviours important as it is something, we can all relate to; we each behave in a certain way, and we notice the behaviour of others around us.
To put it simply: actions speak louder than words. Having actionable Winning Behaviours rather than values therefore allows us to sustain the behaviours much more effectively and ensure they become deeply integrated into our culture at Falck. They guide us on how we should act in our daily work and how to make decisions in uncertain situations. These behaviours are already present at Falck, they are how we act daily, but by defining them and uniting behind the same three behaviours.
We stand together as one.
We are committed to care:
People in need are at the heart of every decision we make, and we always strive to improve our competitive edge in offering excellent services to save and improve more lives.
We respond fast and have what it takes, to turn care into action.
We care about what we do, who we work for, who we provide our services to and the people we work with.
We Build Trust:
Quality and ethics take priority in everything we do. We protect our license to operate, by being transparent and living by high compliance standards.
We make no compromise when it comes to loyalty and consistency to earn and uphold the trust of our customers and society. We approach competition with a strong ethical compass.
We are open and honest with our managers, our employees and each other. We are never afraid to speak up if Falck’s integrity is at stake.
Together, we create more value:
We bring value to society and people in need, by being there when they need us.
We never settle to create value for shareholders. In doing so, we honor past investments in our business and allow for future funding in developing emergency response and healthcare services.
We work efficiently together across functions, countries and business units to continuously improve our services and surpass ordinary standards which sets us apart from competition.
About us
What Falck Fire Services UK can offer you:
- Salary £35k – 40k per annum, experience dependent
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme after the first 3 months of apprenticeship. The company will contribute 3% of pensionable salary on the basis that the employee contributes 5% of pensionable salary.
- Company Sick Pay Scheme (Up to 2 months CSP depending on length of service)
- 34 Days Holiday Entitlement (inclusive of 8 Statutory holidays)
- 42hrs per week, across Monday-Friday
- Westfield Health Cash Plan Scheme
- Cycle 2 Work Scheme
- Life Assurance Cover (Death In Service
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Health & Wellbeing Campaign - regular competitions
- Falck Benefit Hub (provides discounts with 300+ retailers)
- Free Employee Assistance Programme via Legal & General
- Eligible to register for Blue Light Card Discount Account via Falck email account
Contact
How to Apply:
If you would like to apply, please submit the following to People.Culture@Falck.com:
• Your CV
• A Written Statement answering ONE of the following questions using examples which relate to a project/job you have been involved in. This should be between 500-750 Words:
1) Why understanding fire dynamics is crucial for safety: Explain what "fire dynamics" means and why having a solid understanding of it is essential for anyone involved in designing, assessing, or managing fire safety, particularly in complex environments like petrochemical facilities.
2) The Concept of Deflagration vs. Detonation: Briefly explain the difference between deflagration and detonation in the context of explosions involving flammable substances. Discuss why understanding this difference is important for designing protective measures.
3) Understanding Flammable and Combustible Liquids: Explain the difference between flammable and combustible liquids based on their flash points. Discuss why this distinction is critical for safe storage, handling, and fire protection design in industrial settings.
The deadline for applications is Tuesday 17th June 2025, with interviews looking to take place the Week Commencing Monday 30th June 2025.
Careers with real life impact
Falck is an international organisation of diverse professions and we offer a range of opportunities with the aim of providing our employees with fulfilling work lives.
At Falck you build your career with a global provider of emergency response and healthcare services. You have the opportunity to develop, learn and advance across positions and markets. Behind the desk or on the road, your every action helps us to be there when people need us. That’s why a career at Falck impacts more lives than your own.
At Falck you will be working with professional colleagues who act with care at heart.
Here you have thousands of colleagues always ready to step in with help and support when you need it. We have different skills and personalities but we all act with care at heart. With empathy and professionalism, we care for people in need, for each other, our company and society.
We want to help people live safer and healthier lives and not just today, that’s why we are building a Falck for the future. A company where you have the support, training and equipment you need to do your job right and make a difference for communities around us. This applies whether you make split second decisions to save the lives of others or your work supports those who do.
Our colleagues are committed to care, we care about what we do, who we work for, who we provide our services to and the people we work with. Quality and ethics take priority in everything we do. We bring value to society and people in need, by being there when they need us.
Do you want a career with real life impact?