Fire Protection Engineer

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Atlantic City (NJ)

Hybrid

USD 123,000 - 191,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

FAA’s Center Operations Division in Atlantic City, NJ is seeking a Fire Protection Engineer to design and oversee fire protection systems for FAA facilities. The role involves preparing detailed designs, cost estimates, and statements of work for construction and installation, and collaborating with contractors and other engineers to ensure compliance with codes.

The successful candidate will have an ABET-accredited engineering degree, professional registration or eligibility, and the ability to

Qualifications

ABET-accredited engineering program or equivalent
Combination of education and experience with professional registration/licensure options
FE or related licensure/credentials may qualify for eligibility

Responsibilities

Prepares engineering designs for fire detection and fire suppression systems.
Performs analyses and calculations within the discipline for designs and proposals.
Provides technical support during construction including inspections and submittal reviews.
Coordinates with agencies, contractors, and other engineers to ensure code compliance.

Skills

Fire protection engineering

Engineering design

Code compliance

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Professional registration / licensure

FE exam eligibility

Job description

Summary

This position resides within the Center Ops Division. The Center Ops Division provides operations, maintenance, engineering, logistics, and support services to maintain a dependable infrastructure, a safe and healthy working environment, and a strong operational and administrative foundation at the Technical Center. Our critical services enable all FAA lines of business and other federal and state partners located within our campus to meet their mission objectives effectively and efficiently.

Duties

Responsibilities

The incumbent of this position serves as a Fire Protection Engineer in the Center Operations Division. Typical responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the duties listed below:

Prepares engineering designs for the construction and/or installation of fire detection and fire suppression apparatus, appliances, devices and systems. Designs typically involve the development of detailed plans, specifications, calculations, construction cost estimate, and statement of work.
Prepares statements of work and cost estimates for contractor support to develop designs.
Performs analyses and calculations within his/her discipline, including the analysis of technical proposals and designs by contractors and others.
Provides technical support within his/her discipline during construction, which includes field inspections, submittal review and project meeting attendance.
Provides additional technical support in areas of smoke control/management, building layout and space planning for life safety purposes, emergency exits, elevator fire recall, risk analysis, and post-fire investigation and analysis.
Performs assessments of existing and proposed facilities for fire hazards, life safety compliance and other risks. Identifies potential hazards and implements mitigation methods.
Ensures the proper design, construction and arrangement of facilities to mitigate fire damage.
Maintains knowledge of current fire protection codes and technologies through research and training.
Assures assigned projects comply with applicable codes and standards, including FAA Orders and directives.
Collaborates with other engineers and design professionals to create complete design packages and ensure proper coordination with structural fire resistance, fire rated construction and means of egress.
Coordinates project activities with other agencies, contractors, utility companies, state and local government authorities, and the general public.
Serves as the technical representative for FAA contracting officers on assigned projects. May be assigned as Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) on study, design, or construction projects.
Estimates, manages and accounts for assigned project and operations funding, in accordance with applicable regulations, policy, and sound accounting practices.
Evaluates and reports on the operational condition of fire protection and fire detection systems, including providing potential solutions to restore or resolve systems of inadequate condition and/or performance.
Develops reports and/or master project list to ensure fire protection and fire detection systems meet all requirements and function properly into the future.
Develops and oversees execution of fire system test plans, including evaluation and recommendations based on outcome(s).
Performs other duties as assigned.
Plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced engineer. May act as a principal technical specialist or as a project/program manager or team leader for large work activities.
Contacts are internal and external. Often represents FAA as a senior technical point of contact on projects, programs and other work activities. Communicates results to all levels internally (within an LOB/SO or across LOB's/SO's) and externally. Plays a lead role in drafting, reviewing, and editing reports or contractual documents for final approval prior to external distribution. Presents briefings to obtain consensus/approval on policies. Coordinates significant technical matters with representatives of external organizations.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

US Citizenship is required.
Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.
Please review Required Documents section.

Qualifications

Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress‑strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

Combination of education and experience - college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration or licensure - Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 4. Related curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV‑I, FG/GS‑13. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized experience is: Experience preparing engineering designs for fire detection and fire suppression systems, including detailed plans, specifications, calculations, cost estimates, and statements of work for construction and installation projects.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).

Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at: www.ed.gov/accreditation.

Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.

Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full‑time, part‑time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

Required Documents

Only supplemental documentation, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documentation will be accepted in combination with your on‑line application. These documents must be uploaded or emailed to Danielle.C.Dombecki@faa.gov on or before the closing date of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number.

Salary

Salary: $123,171 - $190,953 per year

Salary range includes 28.99% locality pay.

Work schedule

Full‑time

Location

Atlantic City, NJ

Work site options

Telework eligible

Yes—Situational telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy.

Work schedule

Occasional travel - The job may require travel from time‑to‑time, but not on a regular basis. The travel may be for training or other work‑related duties.

Appointment type

Permanent

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