Senior Fire Safety Engineer (all genders)
Job Description & Overview
About The Company
GROPYUS is a technology-based construction company focused on building multi-story residential buildings. Thanks to its prefabricated building system with a wide range of design options, automated offsite construction, and fully digitalized processes, the company is able to create resilient timber housing quickly and cost-effectively. GROPYUS is using scalable construction and manufacturing solutions to tap into a future market, strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity, and play a substantial role in improving sustainability. The company delivers its multi-family houses as a complete and turnkey solution. The combination of technology, construction, robotics, and manufacturing expertise means buildings can be created in a fully digitalized end-to-end process. The building system is based on versatile wall and slab elements, making it easier to optimize land use, customize plans, and build fast with both off-site construction and on-site assembly. This system is complemented by the Building Operating System–developed in-house.
What you’ll be doing
- Fire Safety Design and Product Development for timber buildings in building class 4 and 5
- Implementation of state-of-the-art solutions in our residential Building Product
- Constant and controlled evolution of the Product within the Series- and Change Management
- Coordination with design disciplines like Architecture, Engineering, MEP, Building Physics, Acoustics, and Energy Design
- Contribute to the improvement of short-term and long-term certification strategies of our building product
- Design and coordinate physical tests in the GROPYUS prototyping center at our factory and with external testing institutes
- Communication with external consultants, authorities, and institutes
- Contribute to the public discourse over the advancement of fire safety regulations in Germany through various involvements of GROPYUS
What’s exciting about the role
- Challenge the industry and develop new ways to work on buildings
- Opportunity for continuous learning and development
- Being surrounded by professionals coming from diverse backgrounds (tech, production, automotive, product, sustainability etc.), working together on a common goal
About you
Must have
- Experience in the construction industry and project experience in LP5+ project stage in Germany and/or Austria
- Proficiency in relevant German and/or Austrian regulations and codes
- Experience in developing fire safety strategies
- Fluent German skills
Nice to have
- Experience in residential buildings of building class 4 and/or 5
- Experience in timber construction
- Experience in certification of products
- Experience in Rhino or Revit a plus, alternatively AutoCAD
- Fluent English skills
What we offer
- An unlimited contract with 30 vacation days.
- Flexible work: We value regular in‑person collaboration in the office, while also offering working from home and the opportunity to work up to 40 days a year from abroad.
- Attractive perks and benefits: We offer a company pension scheme, language courses (English/German), and employee discounts with selected sustainable brands. Furthermore, our external partners in mental health support you in strengthening your mental health through anonymous private/group sessions.
- Virtual Shares Program: Participate in the success of GROPYUS through our Virtual Share Program.
- Ownership: You can truly make your mark with your work and contributions – on all our organizational levels.