Remote Position
[Remote] Fire Protection Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The client is a growing engineering consulting firm that helps clients manage fire and life safety risk through technical engineering services. The Fire Protection Engineer will independently lead engineering work, develop practical solutions, communicate recommendations to clients, and guide junior engineers or technical staff across a range of fire protection projects.
Responsibilities
- Fire protection system design
- Code analysis
- Hazard evaluation
- Commissioning
- Related technical services
- Independently lead engineering work from initial scope through final delivery
- Develop practical solutions to complex technical problems
- Identify project scope, budget, or schedule concerns early
- Explain technical recommendations clearly
- Manage expectations
- Build trusted relationships
- Assigning work, reviewing deliverables, and providing constructive coaching and feedback
Skills
- Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering or a related technical field from an accredited college or university
- At least 3 years of relevant fire protection engineering experience, with the judgment and technical depth to independently lead engineering work from initial scope through final delivery
- Professional Engineer licensure, or senior-level NICET certification, or the ability to gain those licensures within the next two years
- Experience in one or more fire protection specialties, such as system design, code analysis and equivalency development, fire hazard analysis, fire and smoke modeling, property loss control, hazardous materials protection, commissioning, or fire investigation
- Ability to develop practical solutions to complex technical problems, produce accurate work, and identify project scope, budget, or schedule concerns early
- Strong client-facing communication skills and the ability to explain technical recommendations clearly, manage expectations, and build trusted relationships
- Experience guiding junior engineers or technical staff, including assigning work, reviewing deliverables, and providing constructive coaching and feedback
- Strong organization, time management, analytical thinking, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities with limited supervision
- A valid U.S. driver's license and authorization to work in the United States are required
- Fire protection engineering or fire protection engineering technology is preferred
- Preferably in fire protection engineering
Benefits
- Bonus eligible
- Remote role with the flexibility of a home-based work environment
- Regular collaboration with clients and project teams
- Limited regional travel, with day trips favored when feasible
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