What are the responsibilities and job description for the Exterior Fire Sprinkler System Designer/Engineer for Install and Sales position at Frontline Wildfire Defense?
Job Title: Exterior Fire Sprinkler System Designer/Engineer Install and Sales
About Frontline Wildfire Defense
Our mission is to protect homes, families and communities from wildfire disasters.
Frontline enables customers to track wildfires, receive important alerts, and safely navigate a wildfire, while protecting a customer’s home with the remotely operated Frontline Wildfire Defense System. With multiple levels of redundancy, our system hydrates the materials of a home and its surrounding area to prevent ignition from flying embers - the #1 cause of structure loss during wildfire.
We are a small team in the early stages of growth, and yet we have already made significant contributions to protecting homes as well as earning revenue by successfully installing systems throughout Northern and Southern California. We have an experienced team of engineers, product designers, and investors and we are poised to grow rapidly.
About This Opportunity
Hydration and sprinkler coverage is central to our protection philosophy, and as such distributing water from source to riser to sprinkler heads with appropriate pressure and flow is critical to our product success, as is identifying the location and density of sprinklers. As Exterior Fire Sprinkler System Engineer, you will ensure that our water distribution systems are optimized for performance and reliability, and you will be able to communicate those requirements through professional detailed drawings. You will use your hydraulic calculations expertise to provide design tools to our field sales teams and to help optimize component selection for our manifold and distribution zones. You are organized, passionate about making a big impact in a company with a big mission, and work well in a flexible, scrappy environment.
Responsibilities:
- Provide exterior sprinkler system design/construction drawings for use by company project managers and installers to install Frontline systems
- Partner and collaborate with Sales Reps to determine feasibility and to solve the specific technical challenges related to potential projects during the sales process
- Review construction contract documents and coordinate with sub-contractors and General Contractor/owner to gather the required information to design the project’s sprinkler system
- Create detailed drawings through extensive use of AutoCAD, AutoSprink, or HydraCAD type programs, SolidWorks experience a bonus.
- Perform hydraulic calculations
- Provide feedback to product team based on experience from the field
- Develop and validate hydraulics calculator and design tools to facilitate preliminary designs by sales team
Experience / Qualifications:
- 5 years of hydraulic engineering and plumbing design experience, preferably in fire protection systems
- Strong analytical, critical thinking and mathematical aptitude, with attention to detail, good working knowledge or hydraulic calculations and ability to read and understand construction blueprints
- Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills with great attention to detail
- Experience working with General Contractors, Architects and Owners’ Reps a plus
- Interior Fire Sprinkler Designer Certification
Compensation:
- Salary and tied to experience and performance
- Salary range $70,000 - $130,000
Life At Frontline
- Join a passionate & driven team, with a mission and a sense of humor
- Hybrid work environment
- Competitive salary & equity package
- Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
- 401k
- Flexible time off policy
- 10 paid Holidays per year
Diversity and inclusion are essential values at Frontline. We know we'll do our best and most impactful work when we feel we're represented and we belong. We encourage talented people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary : $70,000 - $130,000
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