Fire Protection Engineering Intern: Build Life-Safety Systems

Jensen Hughes; Concord (CA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Healthcare coverage

Broad range of benefits

Job summary

Jensen Hughes is seeking college students for internships in our Fire Protection Engineering department across locations in the United States. You will assist with drawings, plans, and inspections, and gain exposure to life safety, fire protection, security and mass notification projects for clients worldwide.

Ideal candidates are pursuing a Bachelor's degree in engineering, have strong written and oral communication, and demonstrate problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of engineering principles or construction technology and practices.
• Read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Possess intermediate-level 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 public.
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Responsible self-starter with problem solving and reasoning skills.
• Possess intermediate-level personal computer skills, including electronic mail, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.

Responsibilities

• Develops, modifies, and/or reviews drawings of systems or components, according to established standards.
• 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 technically 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.
• Perform basic calculations as assigned such as size required means of egress, maximum allowable building area, sprinkler system water supplies, and smoke control equipment.
• Effectively communicate with project team members, clients, and others.

Skills

Engineering principles

Communication skills

Self-starter

PC skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Jensen Hughes is seeking college students for internships in our Fire Protection Engineering department across locations in the United States. You will assist with drawings, plans, and inspections, and gain exposure to life safety, fire protection, security and mass notification projects for clients worldwide.

Ideal candidates are pursuing a Bachelor's degree in engineering, have strong written and oral communication, and demonstrate problem-solving skills.