Senior Fire Protection Engineer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is looking to hire a Senior Engineer experienced in design of Fire Protection and/or Fire Alarm systems to join our Design & Engineering team throughout the USA on a number of exciting projects. As a Senior Fire Protection Engineer, you will lead the fire protection discipline of multiple concurrent projects through pursuits, proposal, design, and construction phases. You will be responsible for leading design efforts and serve as the engineer of record. You will also support proposal and business development efforts, working with project teams, other senior and junior engineers, project managers, and clients on various projects involving commercial, industrial and municipal / government projects. This role can be fully remote, however you need to live within commutable distance to an Airport so as to attend client meetings in various locations apart from your own state.

Role accountabilities:

• Have project leadership level of experience in fire alarm, smoke control, fire suppression, and other related design.
• Self-motivated and team-oriented with the ability to work both independently and within a team. Exceptional attention to detail with strong organizational skills.
• Lead design teams to develop construction-ready drawing packages with inter-discipline coordination. Design for available capacity, redundancy, reliability, efficiency and safety, as well as constructability and cost. Inter-discipline knowledge of facility systems. Experience developing solutions to complex projects.
• Travel to project sites for engineering site surveys, data collection for system studies, system audits and collaboration with clients’ team members.
• Knowledge of industry standards, building codes and safety standards such as NFPA as well as international standards.
• Fluency in design and modelling software (AutoCAD, Autodesk Construction Cloud/BIM360, Revit, hydraulic calculation software).
• Ability to perform various system studies.
• Work with designers to develop sealed drawings of your designs. Provide mentoring to junior staff. Review contractors’ shop drawings and product submittals during construction phase.

Qualifications & Experience:

• BS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or NICET Level 3 or 4 certification.
• 8 or more years of relevant experience in engineering directly related to fire protection and/or fire alarm design including prescriptive, performance-based design as well as fully detailed design.
• Ability to produce fire alarm design drawings including device layouts, installation details and risers based on applicable code requirements.
• PE registration.
• Experience designing for United States federal agencies such as USACE, NAVFAC, USDOE, etc. Added experience with design of telecommunications, CCTV, access control, or desire to learn.
• Solid experience working and designing in Revit. Significant experience leading design teams.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on start date, and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $97,600 - $168,360.

Join Arcadis. Create a legacy.