WSP

Intermediate Consultant - Fire and Life Safety Engineering

WSP$84K — $105K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
  • 1 to 3 years of post-education engineering experience.
  • Prior experience in fire and life safety design.
  • Proficiency in fire protection engineering applications.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Interpret building and fire code requirements, including ICC and NFPA standards.
  • Review architectural drawings for fire code compliance.
  • Negotiate with authorities on fire safety proposals.
  • Produce fire safety strategy documents with minimal guidance.
  • Design fire protection systems including sprinklers and alarms.
  • Perform and review fire engineering calculations and modeling.
  • Assist in commissioning fire safety systems in various facilities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Disability and life insurance.
  • Retirement savings plans.
  • Paid sick leave and vacation.
  • Paid parental leave and personal time off for bereavement or voting.
Full Job Description
Job Description

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Full-Time Intermediate Consultant - Fire and Life Safety Engineer for New York, NY.

Be involved in projects with our Fire and Life Safety Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges.

This opportunity provides technical assistance and guidance for multi-site/phase due diligence, design, development, building, testing, and inspecting of fire and life safety systems on building projects in the public and private sector. Responsibilities include the research, design, concept development, planning, installation, operation, maintenance, and optimal integration of automatic sprinkler, fire alarm, mass notification systems, smoke control, egress analysis, and building and fire code analysis review and compliance. Substantiates reports and documentation regarding installation, construction, and operation specifications. Ensures that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality.
Your Impact
  • Interpretation of building code, life safety, and fire code requirements. This will include familiarity with both ICC and NFPA codes, including IBC and NFPA 101.
  • Review of architectural drawings for compliance with building and fire code requirements
  • Negotiating with authorities having jurisdiction on fire safety designs and proposals.
  • Producing with limited guidance fire safety strategy documents to inform and support the chosen building form throughout the design process.
  • Design of fire protection and life safety systems including automatic fire sprinkler systems, fire detection and alarm systems, smoke management systems, and egress systems.
  • With minimal support, carrying out and reviewing fire engineering calculations including smoke modeling and evacuation analysis from simple hand calculations to complex 3D computational modeling.
  • Assist in the commissioning of fire protection and life safety systems in commercial, institutional and industrial facilities.
  • Directly interfacing with the client.
  • Organizing in-house resources.
  • Following quality control review processes of all project documentation.
  • Developing project proposals and budgets.
  • Conducting financial management of all projects.
  • Mentoring junior staff.
  • Preparing technical reports/specifications.
  • Participating in department initiatives.
  • Contributing to the overall business development of the company.
Who You Are

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or closely related discipline.
  • 1 to 3 years of relevant post education experience in engineering discipline and prior fire and life safety design experience.
  • Experience in fire protection engineering design applications.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:
  • P.E. License is preferred.
  • REVIT and AutoCAD proficiency.

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation:

Expected Salary (all locations): $84,500 - $105,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
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About WSP

WSP is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. It has approximately 54,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. WSP has offices in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.
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1959

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