Fire Protection Engineer

Fire Protection Engineer

AECOM is seeking a Fire Protection Engineer to be based in Arlington, VA. Our business focuses primarily on providing professional and technical services in the engineering design, code consultation and construction phase services for a wide variety of clients both in the private sector and public sector. We execute large and complex engineering projects and provide a comprehensive range of professional planning and design, systems engineering and technical assistance, program and construction management, and operations and maintenance services.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Work closely with other engineers, executing tasks assigned by the department manager including developing fire suppression designs, fire alarm designs, mass notification system designs and performing life safety code analysis work.
• Perform performance-based design of fire suppression and fire alarm/mass notification systems.
• Conduct life safety code analysis and egress analysis.
• Fire modeling and egress modeling.
• Battery hazard / fire risk mitigation.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Fire Protection Engineering or related field from an ABET accredited University and 2 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Due to the nature of the work, U.S. Citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient with REVIT and/or AutoCAD.
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Outlook and similar Microsoft suite products.
• Positive attitude and strong written/verbal communication skills.

• Relocation assistance is not available for this role
• Sponsorship for US Employment Authorization is not available now or in the future for this position.
• This position requires a hybrid work schedule which includes in office work in Arlington, VA. The selected candidate must be available to work in Arlington, VA on a scheduled basis.