Fire Alarm and Life Safety Engineer

Fuyao Glass America•Moraine, OH

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for the reliability, compliance, maintenance, and lifecycle management of plant fire alarm and life safety systems. The position involves planning inspections, testing, preventive maintenance, repairs, system improvements, and emergency restoration activities. The engineer will also coordinate with various internal departments, external contractors, and regulatory authorities as needed.

Requirements

Ability to read, understand, and interpret safety rules, codes, drawings, specifications, operating instructions, maintenance manuals, test reports, and written procedures.
Ability to communicate effectively with technicians, engineers, leadership, contractors, inspectors, and emergency-response personnel.
Three or more years of experience with fire alarm, life safety, fire protection, electrical controls, or related building systems in an industrial, manufacturing, commercial, or institutional environment.
Ability to troubleshoot electrical and low-voltage circuits, analyze practical problems, manage multiple priorities, and work independently.
Must be able to support scheduled shutdowns, emergency response, occasional overtime, and after-hours work.
Knowledge of permit, impairment, LOTO, electrical safety, and contractor-control procedures is required.
Working knowledge of fire alarm and life safety requirements, including NFPA 72, NFPA 25, NFPA 13, NFPA 20, NFPA 70, NFPA 70E, NFPA 80, NFPA 101, applicable building/fire codes, and local requirements.
Knowledge of addressable fire alarm panels, initiating devices, notification appliances, releasing systems, power supplies, batteries, networked panels, and central-station communication.
Knowledge of sprinkler waterflow, valve tamper, fire pump, dry-system, deluge, clean-agent, CO₂, and other life safety system interfaces.
Ability to read and develop fire alarm drawings, riser diagrams, point lists, cause-and-effect matrices, sequence-of-operation documents, and as-built records.
Ability to perform or oversee inspections, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and verification using appropriate meters, software, and fire alarm test equipment.
Strong root-cause analysis skills for nuisance alarms, recurring trouble conditions, device failures, communication faults, and system impairments.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, CMMS/document-control systems, PDF review tools, and AutoCAD or similar drawing software.
Project planning, scheduling, budgeting, procurement, contractor management, and construction coordination skills.
Clear technical writing, report preparation, recordkeeping, and communication skills.
Strong organization, judgment, teamwork, and emergency-response coordination skills.
Fire alarm system manufacturer training and applicable NFPA 72 inspection, testing, programming, or maintenance training.
LOTO, electrical safety / arc-flash awareness, lift and fall-protection training, and other site-required safety training.
Plex/EPAC or applicable CMMS training, document-control procedures, impairment/fire-watch procedures, and company emergency-response training.

Nice To Haves

Mandarin is preferred but not required.
Experience with addressable fire alarm systems, central-station monitoring, sprinkler monitoring, and system commissioning is preferred.
NICET Fire Alarm Systems certification or equivalent manufacturer training is preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage fire alarm and life safety systems, including control panels, initiating devices, notification appliances, sprinkler supervisory and waterflow signals, fire pump signals, emergency lighting, exit signs, fire doors, fire/smoke dampers, and special suppression interfaces.
Maintain a complete equipment register, point list, panel/network inventory, zone map, riser interface list, and current system status for all covered facilities.
Develop and maintain daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannual, annual, and multi-year inspection, testing, and preventive maintenance plans.
Review and respond to fire alarm, supervisory, trouble, disabled, bypassed, and communication conditions; coordinate timely repair and restoration.
Lead or support functional testing of alarm initiation, notification, central-station transmission, fire pump signals, air-handling shutdown, door release, elevator recall, smoke control, gas shutoff, and other approved cause-and-effect functions.
Administer fire protection impairment procedures, including system isolation, notifications, fire watch, temporary protection, restoration, and closure documentation.
Review fire alarm and life safety drawings, point lists, sequence of operations, battery calculations, voltage-drop calculations, network diagrams, product submittals, and as-built documents.
Plan and coordinate new installations, modifications, replacements, permitting support, commissioning, acceptance testing, and turnover documentation.
Manage contractors, service agreements, quotations, purchase requests, schedules, site access, safety requirements, and vendor performance.
Maintain compliance with applicable fire alarm, fire protection, electrical, building, and life safety requirements, including company standards and adopted codes.
Maintain inspection reports, test records, annual tags, deficiency logs, repair records, permits, warranties, software backups, and system programming documentation.
Investigate nuisance alarms, repeat trouble conditions, device failures, communication issues, and other recurring problems; complete root-cause analysis and corrective action.
Develop critical spare-parts plans and lifecycle replacement strategies for panels, power supplies, batteries, modules, detectors, notification devices, and communication equipment.
Provide emergency response and after-hours support for fire alarm and life safety system failures, impairments, and restoration activities.
Provide technical training and operating guidance to Facility, Utility, Security, EHS, and other affected personnel.