Senior Fire Protection Engineer (Hybrid)
About the role
Join Michael Baker International as a Senior Fire Protection Engineer and take the lead in shaping fire protection strategies across Texas. In this highly visible role, you’ll serve as a client-facing technical leader—driving project delivery, strengthening key relationships, and guiding solutions that protect people, assets, and mission-critical operations. You’ll have the full support of Michael Baker’s nationwide Fire Protection Engineering team while maintaining the autonomy to grow and lead our presence in the region.
Primary Responsibilities
- Business development and client management
- Be responsible for proposal preparation, project budgets and project work schedules
- Perform hydraulic calculations for sprinkler and fire pump design
- Analyze life safety requirements for buildings, including building code compliance, occupant load calculations and egress analysis
- Perform on-site system evaluations and perform final system testing
- Coincide designs with other engineering disciplines
- Grow revenue from existing client base through ensuring high quality work products and regular client interactions.
- Attend local industry events to create and maintain networking connections.
- Identify and win new work from new and existing clients.
- Client management
- Communicate with clients to understand their needs and provide technical expertise.
- Present project proposals and updates to clients.
- Ensure client satisfaction through effective project delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Registered Professional Engineer in Fire Protection
- 8+ years professional experience
- BS or MS in Fire Protection Engineering or related field
- Experience in fire protection system design including: fire sprinkler systems, fire pumps, clean agent systems, high expansion foam systems, fire alarm and mass notification systems
- Knowledge and experience of building and design codes, specifically IBC, NFPA 101, NFPA 13 and NFPA 72
- US Citizen Required
Compensation
The approximate compensation range for this position is $97,593 to $153,732. This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.
WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY
This position can be remote or hybrid, for a candidate located in the Texas region of the United States.
About Us
Michael Baker International, a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management, has been solving some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges for more than 85 years with a legacy of expertise, experience, innovation and integrity. Based in Pittsburgh and with over 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous. We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life. We Make a Difference.
About The Team
ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING ENGINEERING PRACTICE Michael Baker International seamlessly integrates all our service offerings – architecture, planning, landscape architecture, engineering and management – to solve client challenges from multiple vantage points, providing unsurpassed holistic, sustainable, and innovative solutions. From high-profile, high-image landmarks to low-cost, utilitarian solutions, our professionals know how to balance image and cost appropriately for each unique situation. At Michael Baker International, we believe that the beauty of a project resides both in performance and aesthetics – “success” to us is measured by functionality, value, and exceeding clients’ expectations to “Make a Difference.”