Life Safety Systems/Fire Alarm Construction Administration (CA) Engineer
Largeton Group · Tampa, FL · 1 wk ago
Full-time
Location: Tampa, FL (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ months
About the role
As a Life Safety Systems/Fire Alarm Construction Administration (CA) Engineer, you will use your skills and experience to help clients by providing code-compliant asset protection, fire mitigation, and life safety solutions. You will provide guidance to co-workers and receive solutions from senior design professionals to take ownership of various projects as the engineer of record. These solutions include fire alarm, fire detection, fire suppression, gas detection, life safety considerations, smoke modeling, and explosion prevention. You will interface directly with client counterparts in designing their facilities and with state and local code officials.
Responsibilities
- Apply Life Safety & Fire codes and industry standards to provide calculations, equipment sizing and quantities, equipment and construction specifications, network diagrams, and construction deliverables in both 2D and 3D platforms for a constructible design.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering
- Knowledge and design experience with Fire Alarm Systems and related manufacturers' equipment, including VESDA systems
- Experience in the field installing, inspecting, or testing fire alarm systems
- Familiarity with the following manufacturers: Notifier, Edwards, and Xtralis
- Knowledge of IBC, IFC, NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, and NFPA 72 Fire Alarm and Signaling Code
- Knowledge and application of NFPA 70 (NEC) and electrical design requirements
- Knowledge of general design and construction specifications
- Experience leading projects and managing resources
Skills
- At least 4 years of Autodesk Revit design experience
- Professional Engineering (PE) license (preferred)
- Knowledge of NFPA 75, NFPA 76, NFPA 2001, and NFPA 13 codes (preferred)
- Design experience in data centers (preferred)
- Experience mentoring junior staff (preferred)
- Experience estimating and scheduling mid-to-large-scale projects (preferred)