Fire Protection Engineer
Vanderweil
- Miami, FL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design of fire suppression and fire alarm systems throughout all company market sectors including academic, commercial, healthcare, science and technology and mission critical.
- Engineer will be responsible for designs of automatic sprinkler, standpipes, high rise fire pumps, gaseous agent suppression, fire alarm, voice evacuation, mass notification, special technology fire detection and smoke control.
- Coordinate with the design team and/or construction staff to lead related portions of construction planning and visit the project construction site throughout the construction administration process along with field reports, RFI responses and FP / FA shop drawing and submittal reviews.
- Design and layout systems, create drawings using Revit, Autocad, HydraCALC.
- Survey existing project sites to document existing conditions and to assess existing FP / FA infrastructure.
- Other duties as assigned
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Fire Protection Engineering.
- 8+ years of professional fire protection engineering industry experience designing fire protection and fire alarm systems.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD and Revit with fluency in MS Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook and cloud tools. Strong communication and computer skills are required.
- The preferred candidate will have excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills
- Candidate must have the ability to create and modify technical drawings and specifications
- Customer service perspective with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff
- Must be able to visit job sites, ascend and descend stairs, lift 25 pounds and may sit for extended periods of time