Senior Fire Protection Engineer

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients our communities and our planet. If this sparks your interest youre in the right place.

As a Senior Fire Protection Engineer you will lead fire protection engineering services from schematicdesign through construction administration across a wide range of sectors including Federal K-12Healthcare Higher Education Justice/Civic Sports and Culture & Performing Arts. As a key member ofan integrated design team you will collaborate closely with other disciplines to deliver highlycoordinated building designs that elevate human experience through thoughtful performance-drivendesign solutions.

Position Summary:

You will lead the design of fire protection systems and collaborate closely with the mechanical engineering team to develop engineering drawings and perform required calculations.

The successful candidate will

• Lead fire protection engineering teams across multiple regions providing technical leadership staff oversight mentorship and project-specific support.
• Manage the planning execution and delivery of fire protection design services firmwide ensuring schedules milestones budgets and quality standards are met.
• Develop fire protection scopes of work project budgets proposals and design strategies across a diverse range of project types and market sectors.
• Prepare and review fire and life safety analyses building code compliance reviews (IBC Chapters 110) and applicable NFPA standards.
• Oversee the production coordination and quality assurance of construction documents technical reports specifications and plan review deliverables.
• Coordinate with clients consultants vendors and local and state authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) to support permitting approvals and effective project execution.
• Lead construction administration activities including submittal reviews site observations construction meetings and issue resolution during implementation.
• Support business development efforts through client relationship management participation in interviews and contributions to proposals/RFP responses.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Fire Protection Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related engineering
• 7 years of experience in the design and analysis of fire protection systems within the built
• Active Fire Protection Professional Engineer (PE) licensure required.
• Demonstrated experience with both new construction and renovation/retrofit of fire protection systems.
• Strong working knowledge of International Building Code (IBC) International Fire Code (IFC) and applicable NFPA codes and standards.
• Excellent verbal written and organizational skills with the ability to communicate effectively across multidisciplinary teams clients and stakeholders.

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture engineering interiors planning and building optimization for new builds renovations and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration open information sharing shared risk and reward value-based decision making and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge the ME2040 and the SE2050 and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values commitment creativity environmental stewardship fun integrity ownership sharing teamwork we elevate the human experience through design together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.