Senior Fire Protection Engineer/Designer
About The Position
Join a People-First, Employee-Owned Firm That’s Redefining Flexibility and Growth. Senior Fire Protection Engineer/Designer (MEP) – National Capital Region (Hybrid). At Interface Engineering, we believe your career should be as dynamic and rewarding as the projects you support. As a 100% employee-owned firm, we offer a Collaboration from Home policy, giving you the flexibility of a hybrid schedule (3 days/week in-office) while staying connected to a team that values innovation, inclusion, and impact. We’re not just engineers—we’re collaborators, mentors, and trailblazers in high-performance design. Our Pathway to Leadership program offers a transparent, personalized roadmap for career advancement, empowering you to grow in the direction that excites you most. Interface has the company culture and work environment you have been seeking! You’ll find a workplace with a culture of fun, superior work/life balance benefits, expansive personal development opportunities, innovative technology, and great relationships. You’ll work alongside MEP industry leaders who will help you develop your own thriving career path. Our work takes us around the globe and on a steady growth curve. Our success and innovation are powered by people like you! The following Core Values capture the essence of who we are. We live and breathe them, and they inform everything we do: We are Conscientious. We are Empowered. We are Respectful. We are Transformative. We are Resilient.
Requirements
- 8+ years’ experience in fire protection system consulting and design.
- Expert knowledge of NFPA standards and I-Codes.
- Specialization in fire sprinkler systems, code consulting, and other water-based systems design.
- Design lead experience.
- Willingness to travel for site visits, meetings, and witness testing.
- Working knowledge of computer aided design programs (Revit, Autosprink for Revit, AutoCAD).
Nice To Haves
- PE in Fire Protection
- NICET certification in Fire Alarm and/or Water-Based Fire Protection Systems Layout
- Associates or bachelor’s degree in Fire/Mech/Elec Engineering
Responsibilities
- Fire sprinkler system design
- Water-based or special hazard-based fire protection systems design
- Hydraulic and water supply calculations
- Building code analysis
- Evaluation of existing building fire protection and alarm systems
- Due diligence report generation
- Client interaction
- Multi-discipline coordination
- Product selection and evaluation
- Project specifications development
- Providing exemplary service to fellow team members and clients
Benefits
- Competitive Pay: $102,431 to $159,339 annual salary and conditional bonus
- Employee Ownership: Build equity through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- 401(k)
- medical/dental/vision
- life & disability insurance
- transportation benefits
- PTO
- paid holidays
- company closure to clients from Christmas to New Year’s
- Paid volunteer time
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
