Associate Fire Protection Engineer – Early Career

Jensen Hughes; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 67,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Jensen Hughes in Colorado Springs is seeking an Associate to join our fire protection engineering team. This early career role welcomes recent graduates or engineers starting out, with strong interest in fire protection engineering.

You will gain early responsibility and progression opportunities while supporting life-safety code reviews, sprinkler and fire alarm design, and performance-based design under supervision. We encourage licensure and provide help toward it.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) or higher in Fire Protection, Mechanical, Civil or Architectural Engineering or other related engineering field and 0-3 years' experience.
• Demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills to write reports, business correspondence, presentations and procedure manuals, and to respond to questions from groups of managers, clients and the general public.
• Passion advancing the science of safety and in exceeding our client expectations.

Responsibilities

• Perform professional-level fire protection engineering services such as life safety code consulting, sprinkler design, fire alarm design, performance-based fire engineering design, under the direction of a P.E. or an experienced consultant.
• Develops plans, specifications, and inspection reports as needed on assigned tasks to see that these items are complete, accurate and in accordance with good professional service practice standards.
• Assist in the resolution of design problems that may include performing field investigations or inspections, detailed design work, and detailed checking of design computations done by others, or general coordination of specific design aspects into a project.
• Identify applicable codes and standards to reference in evaluating how to respond to inquiries.
• Conduct and document assigned work such as basic building code analyses, egress analyses, fire detection and alarm systems reviews, smoke control systems reviews, and basic sprinkler and water supply systems reviews, including hydraulic calculations.
• Apply engineering calculations such as size required, means of egress, maximum allowable building area, sprinkler system water supplies and smoke control equipment.
• Submit progress reports to Project Managers and Project Leaders.
• Effectively communicate with project team members, clients and others.

Skills

Fire protection design

Life safety code analysis

Hydraulic calculations

Field investigations

Project coordination

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Fire Protection Engineering

Job description

Jensen Hughes in Colorado Springs is seeking an Associate to join our fire protection engineering team. This early career role welcomes recent graduates or engineers starting out, with strong interest in fire protection engineering.

You will gain early responsibility and progression opportunities while supporting life-safety code reviews, sprinkler and fire alarm design, and performance-based design under supervision. We encourage licensure and provide help toward it.