Fire Protection Engineering Intern Learn Life Safety Design

Jensen Hughes Inc.; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Healthcare coverage

Broad range of other benefits

Job summary

Jensen Hughes Inc. seeks an Intern in Fire Protection Engineering in Columbia, Maryland.

The role supports the Fire Protection Engineering department across multiple locations in the United States, contributing to life safety, fire protection, and related services for commercial, institutional, and industrial projects. You will assist with drawings, plans, specifications, and inspections, while gaining exposure to building codes, egress analyses, sprinkler design, and hydraulic calculations.

Qualifications

• Working toward 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 principles

Communication skills

Problem solving

Self-starter

PC skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Jensen Hughes Inc. seeks an Intern in Fire Protection Engineering in Columbia, Maryland.

The role supports the Fire Protection Engineering department across multiple locations in the United States, contributing to life safety, fire protection, and related services for commercial, institutional, and industrial projects. You will assist with drawings, plans, specifications, and inspections, while gaining exposure to building codes, egress analyses, sprinkler design, and hydraulic calculations.