Fire Protection Engineer

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

You will serve as the Engineering Division and Middle East District staff specialist and authority in fire prevention, fire protection, and life safety engineering.

• As a Fire Protection Engineer, you will be responsible for the review of and recommendations for, any changes to all plans, original designs, and design changes for the construction programs being carried out in the in the Middle East.
• Develop design criteria to be included in scopes of work for use by Architecture-Engineering (A-E) firms in developing designs.
• Develop/draft original plans, design criteria, design drawings, and technical specifications and prepare the design analysis for all fire prevention, fire protection, and life safety features of the project design work.
• Provide specialized expertise to HQUSACE in maintaining and developing design criteria documents for aircraft hangar fire protection systems.
• Review incoming directives, scopes of work, and project criteria to determine the type of project involved, and the feasibility of using agency requirements.

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position has a temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirements of 25% of the time.
• This position is designated Tier 3, Non-Critical Sensitive, Moderate Risk and requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance Level as a condition of employment.