Fire Protection Consultant / Engineer

About the role

Jensen Hughes is seeking an experienced Fire Protection Consultant in the Pacific Northwest, ideally near Portland, Oregon or Bellevue, Washington. We are looking for highly motivated, experienced individuals to work in all aspects of fire protection engineering, including building and fire code consulting, fire protection systems, and fire protection strategies.

Responsibilities

• Management and implementation of a wide variety of engineering design and consulting projects.
• Satisfy client needs and expectations by completing assigned tasks on schedule and within budget.
• Cook up and conduct building and fire code reviews and analyses, including plan reviews and site visits.
• Prepare and peer review of project-related technical reports.
• Develop fire protection strategies, performance-based design approaches, and alternative solutions to resolve client design issues.
• Effectively communicate with project team members, clients, and others.
• Support business development and client relationship management efforts in the sub-region (up to 10% of role).

Requirements and Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in any of the following areas: code consulting, design of fire suppression and alarm systems, and developing performance-based strategies in a project design environment
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering (preferably Fire Protection), Architecture, or related field.
• Registered Professional Engineer license, NICET certification, or equivalent strongly preferred. We will also consider candidates that have significant industry experience in fire protection and code consultant but are not on the engineering track.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven project management experience.
• Experience in developing building code concepts and equivalencies, conducting building plan reviews, and conducting field reviews/inspections.
• Ability to present clear and technically sound fire protection engineering strategies.
• Ability to work well independently and to interact with other industry professionals, associated trades, and jurisdictional authorities.
• Fire alarm & fire sprinkler design knowledge/experience is a plus.