Fire Protection Engineer (2+years)
About The Position
Our mission is simple: To empower our team to deliver innovative engineering solutions focused on our clients’ success. As a Fire Protection Engineer at Coffman Engineers, you’ll be part of a collaborative, creative, and high-performing team that believes in making a difference for our clients and our communities. You’ll experience a culture where your growth and contributions truly matter. Coffman Engineers is seeking a highly skilled, self-motivated, Fire Protection Engineer with two or more years of experience. This individual will have an interest in working with professionals on challenging projects providing our clients with automatic suppression system design; fire detection, alarm and mass notification system design; code analysis; egress analysis; fire resistant construction analysis; smoke control analysis; as well as general fire protection and life safety concepts and research.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in engineering from accredited college or university or Fire Protection specific degree
- 2+ years of working experience
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Computer skills necessary for daily activities, including email, word processing, spreadsheets, simple graphics, and a working knowledge of computer aided drafting
Nice To Haves
- Fire Protection specific degree
- Registered as a Professional Engineer (PE)
- Engineer-in-Training (EIT) or ability to take the FE exam within the next six months
- Experience with the current version of AutoCAD and Revit
Responsibilities
- Providing clients with automatic suppression system design
- Fire detection, alarm and mass notification system design
- Code analysis
- Egress analysis
- Fire resistant construction analysis
- Smoke control analysis
- General fire protection and life safety concepts and research
- Managing day-to-day contacts with internal and external clients while utilizing experience and technology to meet expectations
- Performing research and documenting for internal and external distribution
- Analysis of existing fire protection systems
- Design new fire protection systems including suppression systems, fire detection, fire alarm and mass notification systems
- Building and fire code analysis and interpretation
- Utilization of FDS, Pyrosim, CONTAM programs to execute performance-based design efforts
- Project management skills for managing internal projects as well as external client needs
Benefits
- Paid overtime at 1.0 times hourly rate
- Competitive end of year discretionary bonus based on company/team/personal performance
- Hybrid Work Schedule
- 401k with maximum of 5% Contribution Matching for 9% Employee Contribution
- Flexible PTO program
- Family-friendly policies
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
