Fire Protection Engineer

GRADE

STD
0022

Office of the State Fire Marshal Fire Protection Engineering, Northeast Regional Office 2 S. Bond Street Bel Air, MD 21014

To apply and approve professional fire protection engineering principles and practices to ensure compliance with fire laws included in the Maryland Public Safety Article and requirements of the State Fire Prevention Code as applicable to design, construction, and use of new and existing buildings and processes from a life safety and property protection standpoint; serve as a technical code enforcement resource at the regional level to the staff of the agency;

implement and coordinate code requirements with local fire and building officials and numerous state agencies; provide appropriate professional level of fire protection engineering services as directed by the Chief Fire Protection Engineer; provide code interpretation and fire protection engineering assistance to architects, engineers and other design professionals consistent with agency policies.

• Performs detailed technical review and evaluation of a broad scope and complexity of preliminary design and construction documents, including plans and specifications of all types of new construction projects and hazardous industrial processes for agency approval and compliance with applicable State fire laws, regulations and related referenced codes and standards in accordance with guidelines and priorities established by the State Fire Marshal and Chief Fire Protection Engineer.
• Performs critical review of various fire protection system “shop drawings” prepared by fire protection sub-contractors. Such Systems include automatic sprinkler; detection and alarm; standpipe; smoke control; emergency lighting and control, and other highly specialized fire protection systems. Engineering calculations are made to verify and determine adequacy of design and performance of the system in accordance with required standards and good engineering practice.
• Confers with and provides professional fire protection engineering advice, guidance and direction to architects, engineers, and other design professionals on acceptable methods and materials of achieving compliance with fire protection criteria of fire and building codes. Approval is given to proper methods and designs impacting on the architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and structural aspects of construction, equipment and processes from a fire protection engineering standpoint.
• Researches, analyzes, interprets and applies code criteria and standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education:

A Bachelor’s degree in fire protection engineering from an accredited college or university.

Experience:

Two years of professional experience in fire protection engineering work.

OR

Education:

A Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.

Experience:

Four years of professional experience in fire protection engineering work.

Note:

Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in Engineering classifications or Engineering specialty codes in the fire protection engineering field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience and education.

Employees in this classification may be assigned duties which require the operation of a motor vehicle.…