IT Technician

ARES Staffing Solutions; Bowmanville; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ARES Staffing Solutions seeks a Fire Protection Engineer to support Emergency Response Team documentation and compliance initiatives. You will provide technical evaluations, coordinate work across facility systems, and prepare reports for external requests or historical records.

Responsibilities include reviewing proposals, drafting specifications, and ensuring adherence to CNSC, NFPA, CSA standards and license conditions. Experience with fire risk assessments and equipment lifecycle is valuable.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Fire Protection and related codes to evaluate and improve processes.
• Ability to prepare clear, concise reports and recommendations.
• Experience with fire protection in industrial or nuclear facilities is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical evaluations and advice for commissioning, operation and maintenance.
• Receive assignments, identify issues, and coordinate technical work.
• Prepare reports for external requests and historical purposes.
• Review proposals and suggest revisions, then route for approval.
• Develop specifications and support procurement and field installation.
• Ensure compliance with CNSC, NFPA, CSA codes and station license conditions.
• Advise management on fire hazard assessments, equipment lifecycle, and PPE.
• Support fire risk assessments and develop response plans for postulated scenarios.

Skills

Fire Protection

Engineering background

Technical reporting

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Four-year university engineering degree

Job description

Position is to support Emergency Response Team documentation:

• Provide technical evaluations and advice, solve problems and coordinate technical work as required, in a number of major work areas, in support of the commissioning, operation and maintenance of the facilities.
• Receive assignments from Supervisor as well as identify potential problems and opportunities in assigned areas and/or systems in the facility.
• Prepare reports to provide information and data in answer to external requests or for historical purposes. Initiate studies or investigations where opportunities for improvement are apparent. In some instances, these opportunities may be identified by the Supervisor.
• Review proposals received from internal or external sources related to assigned area. Discuss proposal with originator as necessary to suggest changes or revisions as appropriate. Recommend disposition of proposal to Supervisor in writing for review and forwarding to approval authority.
• Prepare or help prepare specifications, for purchasing requisitions for material, services and equipment. Follow up with procurement and provide necessary technical services during field installation.
• Provide support for ensuring compliance with all site license conditions relating to CSA N293, CSA N393 and associated NFPA codes and standards related to the fire protection program.
• Provide expert advice, guidance, direction and assistance to management and fire protection staff, regarding fire hazard assessment, fire response equipment lifecycle and fire response personal protective equipment and kit. Provide interpretations of station compliance requirements with licensing codes and standards (CSA N293, CSA N393, NFPA, NFCC), Provincial and Federal laws, acts, statutes, and our client’s Fire Protection procedures.
• Ensure all fire protection systems and equipment is operational and initiate appropriate compensatory measures to maintain compliance with regulations and station license conditions where deficiencies exist. Provide support in developing/ updating standards, procedure, Instruction, and guides to ensure CNSC regulations, and code and standard requirements are adhered to.
• Assist the Section Manager of Fire Protection Programs with fire risk assessments including review of pertinent system impairments, Fire Safe Shutdown Analysis and Fire Hazard Assessment information, official local information and fire codes and standards to identify credible alternative and performance-based strategies for compliance with station license conditions. Develop response plans for postulated fire scenarios based on the plant safety report licensing basis.
• Develop and maintain an ongoing review process to identify any increase in risk from equipment, training, staffing or procedural deficiencies and recommend the requirement to modify the site fire response protocols to compensate for changes in the site-specific fire risk.
• Liaise with site department managers to identify solutions to their support needs. Develop and implement Fire Protection service delivery options to improve effectiveness and efficiency of the service to stakeholders.
• Ensure CNSC correspondence is prepared to an appropriate standard and that all recommendations, action notices or directives are appropriately addressed with corrective action plans.
• Support the interface with external fire protection, and other emergency response groups, both internal and external.

Qualifications

• Requires knowledge of Fire Protection, engineering and economics to technically understand the operation of the facility. Requires knowledge of Fire Hazard Assessment, Fire Safe Showdown Assessment, National Building Code of Canada, National fire Code of Canada and CSA N293 to evaluate and propose improvements to Fire Protection processes, equipment and systems in our client’s Nuclear Stations and Facilities.
• Requires a knowledge of English in order to prepare clear and concise reports and recommendations both verbally and in writing.
• This knowledge is considered to be normally acquired through the successful completion of a four-year university education in an appropriate engineering field or by having the equivalent level of education.
• Fire response experience or knowledge is an asset.