Fire Safety Designer​/EIT

Fire Protection Designer/EIT – HDR

HDR is a leading design and engineering company focused on building engineering, working with clients in sectors such as civic, federal, science, transportation, and water. Our Fire & Life Safety (FLS) team provides comprehensive fire protection and life safety design services across the country.

As a member of our Fire & Life Safety team, you will be tasked with executing design production and will play a key role in delivering our fire & life safety design services, which include active and passive fire and life safety systems, code consulting, life safety and egress evaluations, performance‑based design, fire/smoke/egress modeling, inspection and plan review, hazard and risk analysis, emergency management and planning, structural fire protection, fire root‑cause analysis, and accessibility consulting.

• Assist on the fire protection portions of projects under the direction of a Senior Fire Protection Engineer
• Meet with clients and contractors
• Interpret engineering data for designers and drafters
• Check the drawings on a continuing basis to ensure accuracy and completeness, and promote the skills of designers and drafters
• Monitor the schedule and budgets for projects
• Review and summarize applicable codes, and record them for inclusion in the design record
• Coordinate work with other disciplines and consultants
• Check contract documents and shop drawings, and answer requests for information
• Assist in writing the specifications in conjunction with the Technical Services Department
• Perform other duties as needed

• Experience in a technical design or consulting role involving fire protection or other building systems
• Good working knowledge of, and experience with, Autodesk Products such as AutoCAD, REVIT, and Navisworks
• Engineer in Training (EIT) certificate
• Candidates without their EIT will be placed into a Design Coordinator job code and will be expected to obtain their EIT for career progression
• Local candidates preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Fire Protection Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture is a must

• Primary location:
  United States - North Carolina - Charlotte
• Industry: Building Engineering
• Schedule:
  
  Full‑time
• Employee status:
  Regular
• Business class:
  Fire and Life Safety

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an affirmative action and Equal Opportunity Employer (). We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.