Fire Protection Engineering Intern - Hands-On Safety Design

Jensen Hughes; Columbia (MD); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Jensen Hughes is seeking college students for internships within our Fire Protection Engineering department across locations throughout the United States. We provide services in life safety, fire protection, security and mass notification on a variety of projects worldwide.

Interns will assist with drawings, plans, inspections, and calculations, supporting engineers in day-to-day tasks and gaining exposure to codes, standards and client coordination.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering from an accredited college or university.
• 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. Handle multiple tasks simultaneously

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 knowledge

Communication skills

Problem solving

Self-starter

PC skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Job description

Jensen Hughes is seeking college students for internships within our Fire Protection Engineering department across locations throughout the United States. We provide services in life safety, fire protection, security and mass notification on a variety of projects worldwide.

Interns will assist with drawings, plans, inspections, and calculations, supporting engineers in day-to-day tasks and gaining exposure to codes, standards and client coordination.