Senior Fire Safety Engineer

Position: Senior Fire Life Safety Engineer
Requisition

Job Level: Mid Level

Home District/Group:
Kiewit Industrial & Water Engineering

Department:
Design Engineering

Market:
Industrial

Employment Type:

Full Time

Position Overview

We are adding Senior level Fire Life Safety Engineers to our Industrial Engineering team. Our Fire Life Safety Engineers are often the bridge between process safety, facility engineering and construction execution. They ensure that fire protection systems are not only code compliant but also aligned with operational risk, equipment layout and process hazards. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow your skills in Fire Protection and expand your knowledge to other industries - we want to talk with you.

The Fire & Life Safety (FLS) Engineering Department primarily supports Kiewit's power generation, infrastructure, industrial and water work across all of North America. The FLS department is the go-to department within the Kiewit organization for all things fire protection and life safety related. This requires engineers within the FLS department to have a wide range of skills and knowledge ranging from site layout considerations, code and standard analysis, detailed design, to construction administration.

These skills are then required to be applied across multiple project types and implementation methods from design-build to Engineering, Procurement, & Construction (EPC).

What separates Kiewit's FLS department from other firms is integration with construction. The FLS engineers are involved on projects from estimate through award including creation of bid documents, selection of subcontractors, review of submittals, and project close out. During design and procurement the FLS engineers work with our Kiewit construction personnel to ensure constructability, schedule, and costs. During construction the FLS engineers manage and track the performance of the fire protection subcontractors and serve as the responsible engineer assigned on the project for that contract.

Accountability, teamwork, and ownership are key themes in our work. We are one of North America's largest and most respected engineering and construction organizations with a combined staff of more than 3,600 engineers and design professionals with expertise spanning all major engineering disciplines. Backed by over 100 years of construction experience, our construction-driven engineering focuses on constructability and safety in the earliest phases of projects to ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery.

District Overview

Kiewit Industrial & Water Engineering is a full-service consulting and engineering firm serving the infrastructure and engineering markets. Our combined staff of more than 1,700 engineers and design professionals have expertise that spans all major engineering disciplines to serve transportation, power, water/wastewater, mining, building, and oil, gas & chemical markets. Backed by 130 years of construction experience, our construction-driven engineering focuses on constructability and safety in the earliest phases of projects to ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery.

Our rapidly growing Industrial Design Group, which includes process, electrical, controls, structural, architectural, geotechnical, and civil disciplines, is a multi-faceted and leading-edge division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on EPC and design-build delivery of industrial projects in markets such as Data Centers, Mining, Industrial and Municipal Water/Wastewater and Campus Energy. In addition to our Industrial markets, our fire protection group provides direct support for Kiewit's Infrastructure and Power generation engineering and construction teams.

In this capacity, engineers can expect to be exposed to various different project types and challenges.

Location

This position is based out of our either our Houston, TX, Dallas/Fortworth TX, Lenexa, Kansas or Lone Tree, Colorado, Bloomington MN offices or near other offices within Kiewit within the United States.. Some consideration may be made for highly skilled and Lead engineers in other remote locations. We offer relocation to our district office in Lenexa Kansas.

Responsibilities

* Provide fire protection and life safety design, analysis, construction support for industrial facilities, which includes fire and smoke modeling, hazards analysis, risk assessments and scenario evaluations, smoke management plans, explosion protection stategies, and fire-area separation concepts. Lead Fire Protection projects and other engineers.

* Perform fire hazard analysis for the site to determine hazards and appropriate active and passive fire protection schemes in conjunction with the requirements of the applicable codes, standards, and contract requirements.

* Generate calculations to size water supply, fire pumps, and underground pipe sizing.

* Develop subcontractor scope of work packages based upon the fire hazard analysis and calculations.

* Award and manage subcontractors based upon the scope of work packages…