What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Fire Protection Engineer - Mission Critical position at Vanderweil Engineers?
Fire Protection Engineer Mission Critical
Vanderweil Engineers is a top ranked national full-service engineering firm specializing in MEP / FP, and technology services. Working in multiple sectors including Science & Technology, Mission Critical, Academic, Healthcare and Commercial buildings. In our 75th year in operation with a staff of 500 located across nine offices, we are proud to be one of the leading independently owned engineering firms in the country.
If you are looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds in the industry, we are looking for you. We offer growth and stability in an ever-changing volatile environment. We are looking for a Fire Protection Engineers who could sit in any one of our dynamic Boston, Atlanta, Alexandria, NY or Philadelphia offices (Hybrid role).
Our Fire Protection Department is leading the commercial and Mission Critical sectors with services including fire alarm and detection system design, high-rise buildings, large campus fire alarm and protection, sprinkler, emergency communications and more. If you are interested in joining an engineering firm that has set the bar for projects for 75 years and is still growing, please join us. There is a reason why we are one of the number one engineering firms in the country our people, our projects, our values.
Some of your responsibilities include the following :
- Design of fire suppression and fire alarm systems in the Mission Critical Market Sector with the potential to work throughout all company market sectors including academic, commercial, healthcare, and science and technology.
- The engineer will be responsible for designs of automatic sprinklers, standpipes, fire pumps, gaseous agent suppression, fire alarms, voice evacuation, mass notification, special technology fire detection and smoke control.
- Coordinate with the design team and / or construction staff to lead related portions of construction planning and visit the project construction site throughout the construction administration process along with field reports, RFI responses, and FP / FA shop drawing and submittal reviews.
- Design and layout systems, and create drawings using Revit, AutoCAD, and HydraCALC.
- Survey existing project sites to document existing conditions and to assess existing FP / FA infrastructure.
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