Fire Protection Engineer - Principal/ Senior

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This position is the Fire Protection Program Manager which utilizes a broad knowledge of the fire protection principles, practices, methods, and theories to identify and solve the highest complex problems and perform sophisticated analyses. An understanding of fire protection and building construction codes (especially UFC, UBC, and NFPA), regulatory requirements and industry standards ensures station reliability and efficient long-term generation.

GENERAL SUMMARY

Provide independent engineering service and support to perform highly complex engineering tasks requiring specialized skills and broad experience in the application of engineering fundamentals in support of the design modification, operating, and independent assessment of Energy Northwest facilities. Serve as an advisor to others.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Perform highly complex engineering analyses and designs in support of operations, systems, programs, audit inspections, and assessments requiring skills and experience gained through application of engineering methods and analysis, codes, standards, and regulatory requirements.

  • Work with minimal supervision.

  • Serve as an advisor providing advice and counsel on assignments concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements.  Solutions provided involve unconventional or innovative problem solving techniques.

• Provide technical leadership and training on highly complex or extended projects.

• Provide leadership of small groups to resolve complex issues.

• Provide technical direction and leadership routinely to other engineers; serve as a mentor. Provide training to others.

• Identify need and initiate development of new policies, programs, plans, and procedures to meet strategic objectives.

• Assure compliance with regulatory and industry guidance. Provide interpretation of industry guidance for application.

• Identify potential problems in design, quality, or operation and initiate corrective action

Engineering employees are expected to be available and to support the following activities as a condition of employment with Energy Northwest:

• Emergency Response Organization (ERO) including being on-call (24/7) during your required team duty (2 weeks out of every 8 weeks). 

• 12-hour work shifts during outages as part of our overall Outage support (24/7)

• Engineering duty cycle support (24/7) including call-out availability during your responsible duty assignment. (This is a shared responsibility across all engineering positions).

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
 

Engineer Principal
Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university and seven years of engineering experience;

OR a high school diploma or GED and PE license obtained by accredited examination plus eight years of engineering experience.

Engineer Senior

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and three years of discipline specific engineering experience;

OR a PE license obtained by an accredited examination and five years of discipline specific engineering experience. High school diploma or GED is required.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Experience as a systems engineer to maintain fire alarm panel/suppression systems.
• Knowledge of design and troubleshooting of fire alarm and sprinkler systems and fire extinguishers.
• Experience with oversight of fire fighter training.
• Maintains building pre-fire plans.
• Maintain current knowledge of industry developments and applications to Energy Northwest.

DESIRED EDUCATION

• Qualified as Society of Fire Protection Engineer "member" grade or a registered Fire Protection Engineer.
• PE license is preferred.
• Previous experience with fire alarm/suppression system operation and troubleshooting.

This position is open until filled.

Pay Range:

Engineer Principal Salary: $119,107 - $178,661

Midpoint: $148,884

Engineer Senior Salary: $103,563 - $155,345

Midpoint: $129,454

Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience and qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances.

Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications.

Incentive Compensation

This role is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan. Incentives are earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.

Benefits

Energy Northwest (EN) offers a highly competitive and substantial benefits package which allows qualifying employees (and their families) to enroll in medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.  Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring, and identity theft insurance. EN offers three retirement programs to qualifying employees including a matching 401(k) deferred compensation plan, the Washington State Pension Plan (PERS), and a 457(b) savings plan. Qualifying employees will also accrue 160 hours of personal time per year and nine paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate due to race, color, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability.

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Salary : $103,563 - $155,345