Fire Protection Engineer Mission Critical

Vanderweil Engineers is a top ranked national full-service engineering firm specializing in MEP/FP, and technology services. Working in multiple sectors including Science & Technology, Mission Critical, Academic, Healthcare and Commercial buildings. In our 75th year in operation with a staff of 500+ located across nine offices, we are proud to be one of the leading independently owned engineering firms in the country.

If you are looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds in the industry, we are looking for you. We offer growth and stability in an ever-changing volatile environment. We are looking for a Fire Protection Engineers who could sit in any one of our dynamic Boston, Atlanta, Alexandria, NY or Philadelphia offices (Hybrid role).

Our Fire Protection Department is leading the commercial and Mission Critical sectors with services including fire alarm and detection system design, high-rise buildings, large campus fire alarm and protection, sprinkler, emergency communications and more. If you are interested in joining an engineering firm that has set the bar for projects for 75 years and is still growing, please join us. There is a reason why we are one of the number one engineering firms in the country our people, our projects, our values.

Some of your responsibilities include the following:

• Design of fire suppression and fire alarm systems in the Mission Critical Market Sector with the potential to work throughout all company market sectors including academic, commercial, healthcare, and science and technology.
• The engineer will be responsible for designs of automatic sprinklers, standpipes, fire pumps, gaseous agent suppression, fire alarms, voice evacuation, mass notification, special technology fire detection and smoke control.
• Coordinate with the design team and/or construction staff to lead related portions of construction planning and visit the project construction site throughout the construction administration process along with field reports, RFI responses, and FP / FA shop drawing and submittal reviews.
• Design and layout systems, and create drawings using Revit, AutoCAD, and HydraCALC.
• Survey existing project sites to document existing conditions and to assess existing FP / FA infrastructure.

Essential Skills & Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Fire Protection Engineering.
• 8+ years of professional fire protection engineering industry experience designing fire protection and fire alarm systems.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Revit with fluency in MS Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook and cloud tools. Strong communication and computer skills are required.
• The preferred candidate will have excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills
• Candidate must have the ability to create and modify technical drawings and specifications
• Customer service perspective with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff
• Ability to travel to review Fire Suppression and Fire Alarm system installations
• PE highly preferred
• Proven Leadership Experience