Associate Fire Protection Engineer
Job Description
POSITION - ASSOCIATE FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEER
LOCATION - USA REMOTE
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis is looking to hire a Senior Fire Protection Engineer to support the Places Design & Engineering group. The ideal candidate would be an experienced Fire Protection Engineer with extensive experience in facility design. In this role, you will work directly with other Fire Protection Engineers, Mechanical and or Electrical Engineers, Architects, and clients on a range of facility design projects, including Federal projects. You will lead the fire protection discipline of multiple and concurrent projects through the pursuit, proposal, design, and construction phases. The ideal candidate will have their FPE license in a USA State.
If this is your next role, please apply today with your resume and a brief project list.
Responsibilities
Role accountabilities:
- Lead design teams and mentor junior staff to develop construction-ready design packages of drawings and specifications with inter-disciplinary coordination. The successful candidate will have an advanced technical understanding of fire alarm and suppression systems, smoke control, and other related equipment and technologies associated with this specialization
- Deep knowledge of life safety codes
- Knowledge of industry standards, building codes, and safety standards such as NFPA, NEC, NESC, UL, but especially federal agency standards such as UFC and UFGS
- Develop budgets, proposals, schedules, project and staffing plans as well as identify, qualify, and pursue potential clients and project opportunities. The ideal candidate would be well-networked with the American Federal Government Agencies
- Fluency in design and modeling software that includes Revit (must have), BIM, Autodesk Construction Cloud, AutoCAD, HydraCAD, Navisworks, SpecsIntact (must have)
- Travel to project sites for fire protection site surveys, data collection for fire protection studies, and collaboration with client team members
- Skilled in designing fire protection systems in heavy industrial, commercial, manufacturing, and processing facilities. Like: water and wastewater treatment sites, EV assembly plants, lithium-ion battery plants, and data centers, etc.
Job Requirements
Qualifications & Experience:
- U.S. citizenship is required for this position as part of federal employment eligibility requirements
- Bachelor of Science (BS) in mechanical or fire protection engineering with at least 10 to 15 years of experience in consulting engineering and performing facility design
- Fire Protection Professional Engineering Licensure in the United States (must have)
- Extensive experience producing IFC design packages for federal agency facilities
- Strong communication skills related to presentations, project communications, and written documents
- Looking for a candidate who can build positive relationships with internal and external team members. And be able to build additional project opportunities with Arcadis based on those positive relationships!
