About the role
As a Fire Protection Specialist, you’ll spearhead the growth of our Firestop business across the South of England. Using your technical expertise, you’ll actively develop business while working closely with teams across Hilti to identify opportunities, influence outcomes and strengthen our position in passive fire protection.
Your impact will be invaluable in this specialist commercial position. Your technical understanding of passive fire protection will help influence customer and project decisions, turning technical engagement into sustainable sales growth and increasing the adoption of Hilti Firestop solutions across your region.
A key part of the role is also growing our capability from within, sharing your expertise with field teams so opportunities are identified earlier and specialist support is brought in at the right stage.
What You'll do
- Own, identify and develop strong commercial pipelines across existing and prospective customers with passive fire requirements.
- Deliver technical presentations, seminars and education on Hilti Firestop systems, applications, performance and limitations for external stakeholders.
- Act as the specialist partner for the wider team, championing collaboration whilst bringing technical expertise into opportunities at the right stage to influence outcomes.
- Deliver practical training, coaching and field support that helps colleagues identify, qualify and progress Firestop opportunities.
What You’ll Bring
- Strong technical knowledge and experience of passive fire protection / Firestop.
- Customer-facing experience within sales, business development or engineering.
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to identify, develop and progress sales opportunities.
- Confidence communicating, presenting and influencing with contractors, designers, consultants and building owners.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage a pipeline and activity across your region.
- A collaborative approach, working effectively across sales, engineering and specialist teams.
- A full UK driving licence and the flexibility to travel regularly across the South of England as part of this field-based role.
What’s In It for You
We really value our people and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this. Some of our benefits include:
- A competitive base salary and uncapped bonus potential.
- Company vehicle and a fuel/charging card.
- Extensive onboarding and training process and companywide events in Manchester.
- 33 days holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus paid days off for great moments in life - your birthday, moving home, getting married and moments where you may need more support – fertility treatment, neonatal birth, home emergency day.
- You also have the opportunity to buy additional leave days each year.
- Private healthcare, life insurance and wellbeing support.
- 6% pension contribution.
Why Hilti
Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.
Commitment to Inclusion
At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.
