Senior Fire Protection Engineer and Team Lead

RG Vanderweil.com•Alexandria, VA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Vanderweil Engineers is seeking a Senior Fire Protection Engineer and Team Lead for their Alexandria, VA office. This is a hybrid role. The Fire Protection Department offers services including fire alarm and detection system design, high-rise buildings, large campus fire alarm and protection, sprinkler, emergency communications, and more. The company is a nationally recognized, top-ranked engineering firm specializing in MEP/FP and technology services with 75 years of experience and over 500 professionals across nine offices nationwide.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Fire Protection Engineering.
10+ years of professional fire protection engineering industry experience designing fire protection and fire alarm systems.
Proficiency in AutoCAD and Revit with fluency in MS Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook and cloud tools.
Strong communication and computer skills are required.
Ability to create and modify technical drawings and specifications.
Customer service perspective with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff.
PE required.
Proven Leadership Experience.
Valid driver’s license required with the ability to travel to project sites as needed.

Nice To Haves

The preferred candidate will have excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills.
LEED preferred.

Responsibilities

Design of fire suppression and fire alarm systems throughout all company market sectors including academic, commercial, healthcare, science and technology, and mission critical.
Designs of automatic sprinklers, standpipes, high-rise 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.
Coordinate workload and schedules of multiple concurrent projects with junior engineering staff.
Lead and mentor junior engineering staff.