Senior Fire Protection Engineer

Senior Fire Protection Engineer

Jensen Hughes has career opportunities for a Mid – Senior level Fire Protection Engineers & Consultants across all major offices in our U.S. South Region. These roles are available for in-office and hybrid work arrangements. A remote (home office) location would be considered for candidates with significant experience and business development capabilities. Jensen Hughes is a leading fire protection consulting firm providing a range of professional services including building/fire code consulting, sprinkler design, fire alarm design, and performance-based fire engineering design on local, national, and international projects. The successful applicant will have a well-rounded background in fire protection and code consulting and possess strong analytical and creative thinking skills. The role will involve many aspects of fire protection engineering with a focus on Building and Fire Code consulting and fire system design. The candidate will be responsible for the review and implementation of fire protection strategies, will coordinate on all matters with design teams and authorities having jurisdiction, and will lead design teams internally and externally with clients. Additional leadership opportunities may be available to senior staff with established clients.

Responsibilities include:

• Management and implementation of a wide variety of fire protection engineering design and consulting projects.
• Satisfy client needs and expectations by completing assigned tasks on schedule and within budget.
• Coordinate and conduct building and fire code reviews and analyses, including plan reviews and site visits.
• Preparation and peer review of project-related technical reports.
• Develop fire protection strategies, performance-based design approaches, and alternative solutions to resolve client design issues.
• Effectively communicate with project team members, clients, and others.
• Assist with and lead business development activities.
• Apply fundamental fire and life safety engineering principles to create performance-based solutions to design challenges that are not addressed by the straightforward application of existing fire protection codes and standards.
• Evaluate existing facilities for compliance with building code of record and provide recommendations for improvements. Evaluations will include site surveys and analysis of life safety systems, fire detection and alarm systems, smoke control systems, and active as well as passive fire protection systems.
• Perform calculations related to means of egress sizing, maximum allowable building height and area, sprinkler system water supply capacity (i.e., hydraulic calculations) and smoke control equipment.
• Compose technical letters and reports to address specific technical concepts as may be needed by assigned tasks.

Requirements and qualifications include:

• 5+ years of experience in the following areas: code consulting, design of Fire Suppression and Alarm Systems, Fire Performance-Based Design (PBD) + Egress Modeling, AHJ Plan Representation + Plan Review, Fire + Life Safety Building Commissioning.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering (preferably Fire Protection) or related field.
• Registered Professional Engineer or other professional designation preferred. We will also consider candidates that have significant industry experience in fire protection and code consultant but are not on the engineering track.
• Ability to present clear and technically sound fire protection engineering strategies.
• Ability to work well independently and to interact with other industry professionals, associated trades, and jurisdictional authorities.
• Consulting experience and experience with preparing proposals and assisting with or leading business development activities preferred.