About the role:As a
Senior Fire Protection Specialist you will provide expert fire protection engineering leadership to support the design, evaluation, and implementation of systems and strategies that safeguard life and property. You will apply advanced fire science, performance-based design principles, and code expertise to complex buildings, industrial facilities, and specialty environments. This role involves technical design, client consultation, regulatory engagement, and oversight from concept development through commissioning and operations.
You will report to the
Director, Fire Protection and be located at
Kitchener, Ontario. This position will be offered as a
hybrid role. Employees working in hybrid roles are expected to work onsite at our
Kitchener, Ontario office 2 days per week.
Key Responsibilities:- Perform assigned fire protection technical work, which includes tasks related to detection, alarm, emergency signaling, suppression, special hazards, firewater, life safety, code compliance, fire hazard assessment, fire safe shutdown, and fire protection program support.
- Prepare complete first-pass deliverables such as design inputs, calculations, and layouts. These deliverables also include markups, specifications, technical evaluations, assessment sections, system narratives, cause-and-effect documentation, reports, review comments, work plans, field-review records, and technical correspondence.
- Apply applicable codes, standards, procedures, client requirements, quality requirements, licensing-basis requirements, and nuclear safety expectations to assigned work.
- Identify technical issues, assumptions, missing inputs, design conflicts, field constraints, quality concerns, implementation risks, and code or program compliance concerns requiring clarification or escalation.
- Support development of estimates, proposals, technical approaches, assumptions, clarifications, schedules, execution plans, and staffing inputs for assigned work.
Qualifications:- Minimum 5 years of related professional experience in fire protection, engineering technology, design or consulting services
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related technical education
- Professional Engineer (PE) license, Limited License, C.E.T., NICET, CFPS, or other relevant professional registration, certification, or designation
- Demonstrated expertise in performance-based fire safety design, fire modeling, life safety analysis, and interpretation of fire and building codes and standards
We are committed to transparency and equity in all of our people practices. The
base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon experience, qualifications and skills, is estimated to be
$86,800 to $108,500 per year.
This posting is for an
existing vacancy and reflects an immediate hiring need.
#LI-HybridWestinghouse offers great benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being. In Canada the following are representative of what we offer:- Great compensation package
- Employee Assistance Program: confidential counseling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members
- Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match
- Paid Vacations, Flextime, Sick/Personal and Holidays
- We encourage healthy work-life balance and offer flexible schedules and with the potential to work from anywhere in Canada
- We pay 100% of the medical/dental/vision insurance premiums for you and your family
- Incredible opportunity for growth in an innovation-driven, global company
- Educational Reimbursement Program
- Employee Referral and Recognition Program
