Fire Protection Engineer

Department of Energy Headquarters; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Energy Headquarters seeks a Fire Protection Engineer to serve as the expert authority on fire protection, life safety, risk management, and business continuity within its Office of Management. Responsibilities include leading frameworks, evaluating plans for NFPA compliance, and providing senior technical guidance on major HQ modernization efforts.

The role emphasizes authoritative technical leadership and rigorous evaluation of engineering designs to ensure safety mandates are met

Qualifications

• Basic engineering degree program accredited by ABET or combination of education and experience in engineering fields.
• Specialized experience demonstrating leadership in fire protection, life safety, and related safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead fire protection and life safety frameworks across complex headquarters facilities environments mitigating organizational risk and establishing standard operating procedures for Headquarters operations and projects.
• Conduct rigorous engineering evaluations of architectural schematics, engineering plans, and technical specifications, granting formal approval and validating adherence to NFPA standards, building codes, and federal safety mandates.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for major modernization projects and initiatives within Headquarters facilities.

Job description

This position is part of the Office of Management, Department of Energy. As a Fire Protection Engineer, you will erve as the recognized expert and authority in fire protection engineering, life safety, risk management, and business continuity.

BASIC REQUIREMENT:

A. 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. OR B. 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 1 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org.2 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. 2 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 paragraphA. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraphA. 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.) In addition to meeting the basic requirements above, candidates must possess the specialized experience as described below.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-13) in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as meeting 3 of the 4 of the following: Spearhead fire protection and life safety frameworks across complex headquarters facilities environments mitigating organizational risk and establishing standard operating procedures for Headquarters operations and projects. Conduct rigorous engineering evaluations of architectural schematics, engineering plans, and technical specifications, granting formal approval and validating adherence to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards, building codes, and federal safety mandates. Serve as the senior technical authority for major modern