Fire Protection Engineer
Job Description
At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.
You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.
Our East Geography (Washington, D.C., Boston, New York) is seeking a Fire Protection Engineer in the Arup’s fire protection engineering practice in the Americas.
This position will work closely with leading architects/engineers, process designers, end-users and building developers/owners, and will provide innovative, facility-specific, and performance-based solutions for a wide range of projects spanning commercial, property, healthcare, government, and institutional markets. The successful candidate will complement our fire protection engineering team contributing to technical engineering services on our projects and assist in managing ongoing projects.
The America's fire and life safety team forms an integral part of the global fire engineering team which spans around the globe. The role will involve interactive and collaborative working with our fire engineers and multi-disciplinary colleagues. The projects will be diverse, exciting and range from conceptual fire strategy development to delivery of landmark projects in the built environment.
Responsibilities
The Opportunity
In this role you will provide fire protection and life safety consulting engineering services to a variety of potential clients, such as architects, developers, owners, government and insurers, including:
· Perform dynamic egress modeling
· Develop structural fire calculations
· Provide consulting for life safety, building, and fire code compliance
· Contribute to the development of prescriptive and performance-based design strategies
· Work alongside senior engineers to incorporate fire and life safety strategy concepts into the design and review
· Create life safety drawings for conformance with the life safety
· Develop fire alarm, detection, and fire suppression systems design documents and specifications
· Perform smoke control analysis and fire modelling
· Perform risk assessments
· Perform hazardous material analysis for code compliance, including but not limited to hazardous material classifications, quantity analysis, and inventory management strategies
· Knowledge of hazardous material occupancy code requirements, including the concepts of control areas, laboratory units, and/or high hazard occupancies
· Perform project site visits and communicate with architects, contractors and consulting teams
· Prepare and present technical reports and presentations to project stakeholders
· Contribute to client proposals
Job Requirements
The Skills
· A minimum of 2 years of professional working experience in Fire Protection Engineering.
· Bachelors or Masters degree in Fire Protection Engineering. Candidates with degrees in related fields will also be considered, such as Chemical Engineering.
· EIT license in fire protection engineering is desired.
· Initiative, enthusiasm, eagerness to learn.
· Strong communication skills essential for team-based working.
· Excellent planning and organization skills.
· Strong presentation skills and ability to convey technical findings and solutions to owners, user groups and design teams.
· Working knowledge of relevant software, including Office suite of software, FDS, AutoCAD / Revit.
