Fire Protection Engineer
Job Description
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 seeking a Fire Protection Engineer to support our Design and Engineering team throughout the USA on a number of exciting projects.
As a Fire Protection Engineer, you will participate within the fire protection discipline team of multiple concurrent projects through pursuits, proposal, design, and construction phases. You will be responsible for advancing design efforts and making design decisions. You may also support proposal and business development efforts, working with project teams, other senior and junior engineers, project managers, and clients on various projects involving commercial, industrial and municipal / government projects. This role is home based , however you need to live within commutable distance to an Airport so as to attend client meetings in various locations apart from your own State.
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on start date, and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $84,400 - $142,140. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location
Responsibilities
Role accountabilities:
- Have project level experience in fire alarm, smoke control, fire suppression, and other related design with ability to independently perform code analysis, calculations, and other relevant decisions based on direction by senior engineers and professional experience.
- Self-motivated and team-oriented with the ability to work both independently and within a team.
- Lead design teams to develop construction-ready drawing packages with inter-discipline coordination.
- Design for available capacity, redundancy, reliability, efficiency, and safety, as well as constructability and cost.
- Travel to project sites for engineering site surveys, data collection for system studies, system audits and collaboration with clients’ team members.
- Maintain knowledge of industry standards, building codes, and safety standards such as NFPA, as well as international standards.
- Fluency in design and modeling software (AutoCAD, Revit, hydraulic calculation software).
Job Requirements
Qualifications & Experience:
- Education - BS in a relevant Engineering discipline or equivalent
- Minimum years of experience - 5 or more years of relevant experience in Fire Protection Engineering
- Professional license (e.g., EIT/PE or GIT/PG)
- NICET accreditation preferred
- Lean design and construction experience.
- LEED Accredited Professional.
