Fire Protection Engineer

About the Position

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

• You will serve as a design engineer, responsible for coordinating or monitoring, planning, and design efforts for assigned portions of systems or facilities being constructed in the SWM area of responsibility.
• Review studies, scopes of work, and preliminary, pre-final, and final design plans and specifications prepared in-house and by Architect-Engineers.
• Interpret, adapt and apply numerous guidelines, foreign codes, precedents, and engineering principles and practices to determine most feasible design or possible alternative solutions.
• Prepare technical specifications, design criteria, and drawings in conjunction with designs generated in-house.
• Develop design criteria to be included in scopes of work for use by A-E firm in developing designs.
• Conduct shop inspections of major items of fire protection equipment being fabricated in the US or in other countries for inclusion as Government or contractor furnished equipment.

• 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 requirement of 15% of the time.
• This position requires the incumbent be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Secret security clearance or access for the duration of employment.