Fire Protection Engineer

Strategic Mission Critical:

At Strategic Mission Critical (SMC), we are more than just engineers; we are experts focusing solely on mission critical facilities. Our seasoned leadership team brings together decades of experience, equipping data center providers worldwide with robust, reliable solutions that keep pace with the evolving digital landscape.

With a rapidly expanding market and the anticipated increase in demand driven by AI advancements, SMC is at the forefront of industry growth. We offer not just jobs, but career paths that reward innovation and expertise. If you want to work alongside highly skilled professionals with years of mission critical experience, then we want you to be part of a team, a team that works on major projects for top-tier data center providers. Your work will ensure the resilience and efficiency of data infrastructure that millions depend on.

SMC is actively looking for a Mid-Level Fire Protection Engineer/Designer to execute fire suppression and alarm design for mission critical projects. Typical project types may include design of greenfield and brownfield data center facilities, design of fit-out packages for hyperscale and enterprise clients of colocation providers, data center campus planning, conceptual designs, and hydraulic analyses.

This candidate shall be capable of executing basic fire protection design projects independently, taking established design criteria through generation of design plans and specifications for permitting. The candidate shall also be capable as serving as a day-to-day lead on large mission critical projects under the guidance of a senior engineer. The fire design scope will be a part of a broader project and therefore this candidate should be capable of interfacing with design leads within SMC (mechanical, electrical, telecommunications, plumbing) as well as externally (including architectural, civil, structural, etc).

The ideal candidate will be comfortable mentoring recent graduates and junior designers and engineers, reviewing the work of others, and collaborating with senior engineers to implement broad project goals.

RESPONSIBILITIES

This candidate will have the opportunity to execute fire protection design of various project types while working and coordinating with clients and design leads from all disciplines, as well as serve as the daily lead on smaller projects. This candidate shall have the ability to communicate effectively with co-workers and with clients while being able to meet scheduled project deadlines.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Utilize Autodesk Revit to produce contract documents for fire suppression and alarm designs
• Create schematic designs of fire pump, standpipe, and wet, dry, and preaction sprinkler systems.
• Develop fire alarm system architectures, sequences of operation, and schematic device layouts.
• Identify and communicate necessary system interconnections.
• Meet project deadlines, including working necessary hours to complete major deliverables.
• Understand local and national construction codes, client preferences, and construction process to develop a cohesive system design.
• Review and respond to RFIs and submittals as part of construction administration.
• Work with contractor teams to solve problems that arise during construction.
• Have the ability to travel when required to project sites (approximately 10-20% travel).
• Communicate clearly in person, on phone calls, and over email/messaging platforms.
• Lead junior engineers and designers to execute delivery of specific design elements.
• Mentor and train junior engineers and designers to assist in developing fire protection design knowledge base.
• Maintain excellent organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously

QUALIFICATIONS

• 4-year degree in engineering with a fire or mechanical focus preferred. 2-year degrees and MET degrees with work experience will be considered.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in facility fire protection design, particularly using Autodesk Revit for drawing development.
• Experience in fire protection design for larger industrial and commercial buildings is preferred.
• Experience working across the entire construction process, from schematic design through construction administration, including review of submittals and shop drawings, and field work such as existing condition surveys, site observations, and punch lists.
• Experience leading small fire protection design teams and having some client interface experience is preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft tools such as Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams, and Power Point.
• Experience using construction management tools such as Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud.
• Engineer-in-Training (EIT) or Professional Engineer (PE) preferred.

COMPENSATION

Base Compensation: $90,000-$140,000 (Actual compensation is subject to variation due to factors such as education, experience, skills and/or location)

SMC offers a competitive benefits package, with a 36-hour standard work week, hybrid working arrangement, 13 paid holidays, 100% coverage of medical, health, and dental insurance premiums for our full-time employees, and reimbursement of professional licensing costs. Spouse and family insurance premiums are subsidized by SMC. All full-time employees are additionally eligible for employer-sponsored life and long-term disability insurance as well as participation in our 401(k) plan, with annual safe harbor contribution.