Fire Protection Engineer
Telgian
- Wilmington, DE
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Establish criteria for the design of fire alarms, suppression and/or life safety systems based on client's environmental and regulatory compliance needs
- Review existing fire alarm, suppression and/or life safety systems for operational functionality, compliance and regulatory requirements; determines improvement recommendations
- Develop and deliver reports to clients on recommended updates to ensure compliance and /or operational functionality of fire, suppression and/or life safety systems
- Meet with jurisdictional authorities and clients as needed to resolve compliance questions around client fire, suppression and/or life safety systems
- Prepare for and attend appeals and hearings as required to support and/or resolve regulatory findings
- Perform modeling of fire, smoke, water distribution and other related variables for fire, suppression and/or life safety systems
- Identify and/or establish design criteria for specific systems applications; may include specific UL/FM test criteria and performance based tests as required
- Perform information and document gathering, and serves as Engineer of Record, on assigned projects working with design/consulting teams to meet the project requirements; signs/seals engineering documents as required
- Develop and provide evaluation and emergency response training
- Apply standard techniques, principles and criteria to perform assigned tasks.
- Other duties as assigned.
- 4 years college degree (ie: Bachelors) or a combination of equivalent experience and certification, Engineering or related field, required
- Professional Engineer (PE) certification (or ability to obtain), preferred
- NICET certification, preferred
- Certified Fire Protection Specialist, preferred
- Ability to travel 50-75%
- 5 years field engineering/consulting experience in fire protection and/or architecture, preferred
- Working knowledge of Fire, Life Safety and Building Codes, NFPA Standards, and UL/FM standards
- Ability to apply broad knowledge of principles and practices in a specific area of practice.
- Ability to manage small project of limited complexity
- Ability to evaluate, select and apply standard techniques and procedures and criteria to perform a task.
- Demonstrated project management experience
- Working competency with MS Office & MS Project software
- Ability to perform basic calculations using egress, fire smoke and water modeling software.
- Demonstrated proficiency in verbal, written, presentation skills