Fire Sprinkler Designer

Join us in providing top-tier fire protection safety solutions for commercial and residential properties nationwide. We are dedicated to innovation, excellence, and delivering reliable fire protection systems to our clients. Be part of a dynamic team that values expertise, collaboration, and growth opportunities as we continue to expand our reach and impact in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Reviews work order and procedural manuals to determine critical dimensions of design and designs fire protection sprinkler systems within allocated hours for each job.
• Calculates figures to convert design dimensions to resizing dimensions specified for subsequent production, layout and installation processes.
• Submits design plans to proper department leadership for approval and obtains permits as required.
• Confers with engineering and design staff to determine design modifications and enters editing information into computer.
• Keys in specified information to produce graphic representation (hard copy) of design for review and approval by engineering and design staff.
• Makes 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.
• Make revisions to size, shape and arrangement of parts to create practical design drawings.
• Sketches rough layout of system and computes angles, weights, surface areas, dimensions, radii, clearances, tolerances, leverages and location of holes.
• Drafts detailed multi-view drawings of layout and systems.

Competencies

• 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.
• Prefer to have survey skills and an understanding of the construction coordination process.

Education and/or Experience

• 3-5 years related experience and/or training in the design of fire alarm, water, foam and gas delivery systems; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Bachelors degree preferred

Computer Skills

• Knowledge of CAD design software
• Microsoft Office products word processing software

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• NICET certification preferred but not required