Junior Fire Protection Engineer
Job Description
Arcadis is seeking a Junior Fire Protection Engineer to support our Design and Engineering team throughout the USA on a number of exciting projects.
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:
As a Junior 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.
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 $70,800 - $122,130. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.
Responsibilities
Role accountabilities:
- Ability to understand required scope of fire alarm, smoke control, fire suppression, and other related design with ability to interpret code analysis, calculations, and other relevant decisions based on direction by senior engineers.
- Participate on 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. Inter-discipline knowledge of facility systems.
- Travel to project sites for engineering site surveys, data collection for system studies, system audits and collaboration with clients’ team members.
- Ability to understand intent of industry standards, building codes, and safety standards such as NFPA.
- Knowledge of and ability to learn design and modeling software (AutoCAD, Revit, hydraulic calculation software).
- Work with Engineering team to develop sealed drawings and specifications.
Job Requirements
Qualifications & Experience:
Education - BS in a relevant Engineering discipline or equivalent
Minimum years of experience - 2 or more years of relevant experience in Fire Protection Engineering
Preferred Qualifications :
- Professional license (e.g., EIT/PE or GIT/PG)
- Lean design and construction experience.
- LEED Accredited Professional.
