Associate Fire Protection Engineer

The role

You will perform fire protection engineering services including life safety code consulting, sprinkler design, and fire alarm design. You will work under the direction of a P.E. or experienced consultant to develop plans, specifications, and inspection reports.

What you will do

• Perform professional-level fire protection engineering services such as life safety code consulting, sprinkler design, fire alarm design, and performance-based fire engineering design.
• Develop plans, specifications, and inspection reports.
• Assist in the resolution of design problems by performing field investigations or inspections.
• Perform detailed design work and detailed checking of design computations.
• Identify applicable codes and standards to reference in evaluating how to respond to inquiries.
• Conduct and document basic building code analyses, egress analyses, fire detection and alarm systems reviews, smoke control systems reviews, and basic sprinkler and water supply systems reviews.
• Apply engineering calculations including size required, means of egress, maximum allowable building area, sprinkler system water supplies and smoke control equipment.
• Submit progress reports to Project Managers and Project Leaders.
• Perform CADD document preparation/production.
• Read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) or higher in Fire Protection, Mechanical, Civil or Architectural Engineering or other related engineering field
• Demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills to write reports, business correspondence, presentations and procedure manuals, and to respond to questions from groups of managers, clients
• Passion advancing the science of safety and in exceeding our client expectations.

About the company

Jensen Hughes is a global leader in fire protection engineering with a legacy dating back to 1939. Their expertise extends to security and risk-based fields including accessibility consulting, risk analysis, and forensic investigations.