Fire Sprinkler Design Manager

Impact Fire•Houston, TX

About The Position

This position is a design position and reports to the District General Manager. The Designer Manager will supervise technical and administrative personnel in order to achieve any financial or operational goals. The Manager is also responsible for having a strong focus on customer service/support and for any other support tasks assigned by the District General Manager.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business discipline preferred or equivalent experience.
Possess any necessary licensing and certification required by National, State and local codes.
NICET level III or higher, Fire Protection Industry licensing is a plus.
Minimum 3-5 years experience in the fire protection design field required; demonstrating a solid understanding of drafting techniques and familiarity with design and fire sprinkler terminology.
AutoCad experience and/or hydrate experience required.
Ability to read blueprints for fire sprinkler layout.
Ability to make technical presentation internally and to customers.
Must have a sound working knowledge of NFPA 13 and related codes.
Valid driver’s license and a current and sustainable good driving record.
The ability to learn applicable installation, inspection, and servicing codes.
Commercial fire sprinkler systems background and knowledge of pipe fitting, electrical work, and commercial sprinkler system fittings.

Nice To Haves

NICET level III or higher
Fire Protection Industry licensing

Responsibilities

Manage the operations of the Sprinkler Design operations.
Uses CAD equipment to provide support to Engineering department by preparing routine layouts of fire sprinkler systems, detail drawings, assembly drawings, sketches and diagrams.
Details to include all views and dimensions necessary for installation.
Work with the General Manager and other managers to develop financial and operational goals.
Make copies of drawings and maintains information regarding changes to database.
Design fire protection sprinkler systems with as much accuracy and detail as possible to enable the field installation to be completed with as few design errors as possible.
Review work order and procedural manuals to determine critical dimensions of design and designs fire protection sprinkler systems within allocated hours for each job.
Calculate figures to convert design dimensions to resizing dimensions specified for subsequent production, layout and installation processes.
Submit design plans to proper department leadership for approval and obtains permits as required.
Confer with engineering and design staff to determine design modifications and enters editing information into computer.
Key in specified information to produce graphic representation (hard copy) of design for review and approval by engineering and design staff.
Make final sketch of proposed drawing, checking dimension of parts, materials to be used, relation of one part to another, and relation of various parts to whole structure or project.
Revise size, shape and arrangement of parts to create practical design drawings.
Sketch rough layout of system and computes angles, weights, surface areas, dimensions, radii, clearances, tolerances, leverages and location of holes.
Draft detailed multi-view drawings of layout and systems.