Senior Fire Protection Engineer-Data Center

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Location:

Houston, TX, United States | Atlanta, GA, United States | Washington, DC, United States | Chicago, IL, United States | Seattle, WA, United States | Nashville, TN, United States | Tampa, FL, United States | San Francisco, CA, United States | San Diego, CA, United States | Austin, TX, United States Department: MEP Engineering Business Unit: ANA United States Work Type:
Hybrid Date Posted:
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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:

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Fire Protection Engineer with a strong background in data center and Industrial environments to support our U.S. Places Design & Engineering  this role, you will partner closely with multi-disciplinary teams—including Mechanical, Electrical Engineers, Architects, and clients—to deliver fire protection design solutions for mission-critical facilities, with a primary focus on data centers and Industrial projects.

You will lead the fire protection discipline across multiple concurrent projects, guiding efforts from early pursuit and proposal through detailed design and construction administration.

Periodic travel to project sites is expected (approximately 1 week per month) to support client engagement, site assessments, and project delivery.

Role accountabilities:

Lead the fire protection design for data center and mission-critical facility projects, ensuring systems meet reliability, redundancy, and uptime requirements

Develop construction-ready design packages including drawings, specifications, and coordinated BIM models, ensuring alignment across all disciplines

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers and designers

Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and architectural teams to integrate fire protection systems within complex, high-density environments

Support business development efforts, including proposals, cost estimates, schedules, and client engagement

Perform site assessments, field investigations, and fire protection studies specific to data centers (e.g., suppression strategy, hazard analysis, system retrofits)
Utilize and support modeling and design through tools such as Revit, BIM platforms, AutoCAD, Navisworks, and fire protection-specific software (e.g., HydraCAD, Sprink Cad FDT, Aspire)
Maintain strong client relationships and serve as a technical advisor on fire protection strategies for data center projects

Qualifications &

Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Fire Protection Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline

Professional Engineer (PE) license in Fire Protection (U.S.) required

Demonstrated experience designing fire protection systems for data centers, mission-critical facilities, or high-tech industrial environments

Strong understanding of fire protection system strategies in data centers, including:  
    Clean agent systems (e.g., FK-5-12, Sapphire, Inergen, Aragonite)
Wet, Pre-action, Deluge and dry pipe systems

Fire Alarm Design including VESDA Type and Beam Detection Redundancy and cost-effective design considerations

Deep knowledge of applicable codes and standards including NFPA (e.g., NFPA 13, 20, 22, 24, 72, 75, 76), IFC, IBC, and FM Global guidelines)
Experience delivering Issued for Construction (IFC) design packages, ideally in complex or regulated environments

Familiarity with high-availability facility requirements and coordination with MEP systems supporting critical loads

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