Fire Protection Engineering Intern - SUMMER 2027

Summer Consultants • Greenbelt, MD

18h

About The Position

Summer Consultants is seeking a Fire Protection Engineering Intern for Summer 2027. The role offers hands-on experience in the MEP/FP industry, primarily on renovation projects involving existing building constraints. Interns will contribute to project design and problem-solving, including surveying existing conditions, analyzing life safety, and laying out fire alarm and fire suppression systems. They will work with experienced engineers and may visit client sites to learn about projects in the field. The company describes its environment as fun, small, and exciting, and its projects as varied rather than typical or identical.

Requirements

• Have completed two years toward a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Fire Protection Engineering.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Ability to conduct day-long field surveys indoors and outdoors in conditioned and unconditioned spaces.
• Ability to walk up to 10,000–20,000 steps in a day, climb up and down a 6-foot ladder, kneel, squat, and bend.
• Ability to obtain site access at client locations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AutoCAD and Revit.

Responsibilities

• Survey existing building conditions.
• Analyze life safety.
• Lay out fire alarm systems.
• Lay out fire suppression systems.
• Help solve clients’ project problems.
• Contribute to designing quality projects from day one.

Benefits

• Earn one hour of sick leave for each 30 hours worked.
• Reimbursement for parking and travel costs to job sites.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern