Engineer, Fire Protection
Impactiva
Date: 9 hours ago
City: Medina
Contract type: Full time
Specialty
Bachelor’s degree in Fire Protection Engineering or Mechanical/Electrical/Architectural engineering disciplines.
Technical Knowledge
Lead the design review phase, ensuring that all fire protection and life safety systems are compliant with applicable regulations and witness of testing various fire suppression and detection systems, ensuring code compliance
Experience
Minimum 08 to 12 years’ experience in relevant Position.
Primary Functions
Fluent English and local language skills
- Sound knowledge on fire engineering plans review.
- Sound knowledge on relative codes and standards such as SBC (Especially 201 & 801), IBC, IFC, HCIS and NFPA standards.
Bachelor’s degree in Fire Protection Engineering or Mechanical/Electrical/Architectural engineering disciplines.
Technical Knowledge
Lead the design review phase, ensuring that all fire protection and life safety systems are compliant with applicable regulations and witness of testing various fire suppression and detection systems, ensuring code compliance
Experience
Minimum 08 to 12 years’ experience in relevant Position.
Primary Functions
- Interpret and enforce local, national, and international fire/life safety codes (e.g., NFPA, SBC, IBC, IFC, FM).
- Provide expert technical support to other engineers, architects, and contractors to strengthen fire protection within blueprints. They create plans for fire detection tools, such as extinguishers, alarm systems sprinklers, fire pumps, and more. Their work also helps designers evaluate a building’s lifetime safety. The construction plans that fire protection engineers put in place guarantee needed protection measures are present
- Reviewing project FLS documents, including drawings, specifications, and calculations, to ensure they align with AHJ requirements, code compliance.
- Ensure means of egress, fire ratings, occupancy classifications, and systems (e.g., sprinklers, alarms) meet applicable regulations.
- Conduct technical reviews of fire protection and life safety plans.
- Approve or recommend modifications to submitted designs.
- Coordinate with other disciplines and departments (e.g., structural, electrical, civil) for integrated review.
- Investigating fire incidents, determining root causes, and providing technical expertise to prevent future occurrences.
- Develop and implement fire safety protocols, procedures, and ERP.
- Contributing to architectural and urban planning processes to integrate fire safety measures into new developments and historical preservation efforts.Perform on-site inspections during construction phases to ensure installation aligns with approved designs.
- Witness system testing and commissioning (e.g., fire alarm, sprinkler, smoke control).
- Identify and document deficiencies or violations, issue correction notices
- Investigating deficiencies in buildings and construction sites that could potentially cause fires in the future. Additionally, the successful candidate will be responsible for determining the causes of recent fires to uncover how they could have been prevented. This variety of tasks ensures that the role is dynamic and offers opportunities for growth and development.
- Prepare and write reports that outline specific fire prevention topics and procedures. They review the work performed and provide written updates to key stakeholders.
- Incorporating fire safety procedures into designs – such as sprinkler systems, emergency exits, and fire alarms – to minimize the risk of injury and loss of life in the event of a fire, taking into account both the structural integrity of the building and human behavior
- Analyses existing protection measures and designs up-to-date fire protection systems
- Conducts fire risks and develops appropriate safeguards.
- Conduct a comprehensive review of fire and life safety (FLS) strategies by evaluating FLS Basis of Design Reports and Concept Design Reports, analyzing compliance for projects, and examining FLS Technical Design Drawings and Reports.
- Conduct site inspections for Certificate of Completion (COC) issuance at completion stages and confirm the Building Completion Certificate (BCC) after final site visits.
- Prepare operational and project progress reports
- MUST – certified fire protection specialist (CFPS) certification or Equivalent.
Fluent English and local language skills
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