Fire Alarm and Life Safety Engineer Job Moraine Ohio USA,Engineering

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Fire Alarm and Life Safety Engineer

Full Time Key Position Moraine, OH, US

3 days ago Requisition

I. Job Profile

Job Title Fire Alarm and Life Safety Engineer Department System Engineering Department

Direct Supervisor Utility Maintenance Manager Direct Subordinates None

II.

Job Summary

Responsible for the reliability, compliance, maintenance, and lifecycle management of plant fire alarm and life safety systems.
Plans inspections, testing, preventive maintenance, repairs, system improvements, and emergency restoration activities.
Coordinates contractors, EHS, Facility, Production, Security, monitoring companies, and authorities having jurisdiction as required.

III. Job Functions and Duties

Manage fire alarm and life safety systems, including control panels, initiating devices, notification appliances, sprinkler supervisory and waterflow signals, fire pump signals, emergency lighting, exit signs, fire doors, fire/smoke dampers, and special suppression interfaces.

Maintain a complete equipment register, point list, panel/network inventory, zone map, riser interface list, and current system status for all covered facilities.

Develop and maintain daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannual, annual, and multi-year inspection, testing, and preventive maintenance plans.

Review and respond to fire alarm, supervisory, trouble, disabled, bypassed, and communication conditions; coordinate timely repair and restoration.

Lead or support functional testing of alarm initiation, notification, central-station transmission, fire pump signals, air-handling shutdown, door release, elevator recall, smoke control, gas shutoff, and other approved cause-and-effect functions.

Administer fire protection impairment procedures, including system isolation, notifications, fire watch, temporary protection, restoration, and closure documentation.

Review fire alarm and life safety drawings, point lists, sequence of operations, battery calculations, voltage-drop calculations, network diagrams, product submittals, and as-built documents.

Plan and coordinate new installations, modifications, replacements, permitting support, commissioning, acceptance testing, and turnover documentation.

Manage contractors, service agreements, quotations, purchase requests, schedules, site access, safety requirements, and vendor performance.

Maintain compliance with applicable fire alarm, fire protection, electrical, building, and life safety requirements, including company standards and adopted codes.

Maintain inspection reports, test records, annual tags, deficiency logs, repair records, permits, warranties, software backups, and system programming documentation.

Investigate nuisance alarms, repeat trouble conditions, device failures, communication issues, and other recurring problems; complete root-cause analysis and corrective action.

Develop critical spare-parts plans and lifecycle replacement strategies for panels, power supplies, batteries, modules, detectors, notification devices, and communication equipment.

Provide emergency response and after-hours support for fire alarm and life safety system failures, impairments, and restoration activities.

Provide technical training and operating guidance to Facility, Utility, Security, EHS, and other affected personnel.

Nothing in the Position Description restricts management's right to assign or re-assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

IV. Qualification

Job Requirements

Language English is required. Mandarin is preferred but not required. Ability to read, understand, and interpret safety rules, codes, drawings, specifications,…