Life Safety Systems Engineer

Apidel Technologies

Tampa, FL

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Contractor
SKILLS
Construction, Control Systems, Customer Relations, Design Services, Fire Alarm, Fire Safety, Fire Suppression/Control, Industry Standards, Leadership, Life Safety Systems, Loss Prevention, Low Voltage (LV), Mentoring, Network Operations Center, Organizational Skills, People Management, Professional Engineer, Project Engineering, Resource Management, Safety Codes, Safety Engineering, Security Equipment, Systems Engineering, Team Player, Technical/Engineering Design, Time Management
LOCATION
Tampa, FL
POSTED
9 days ago

Your impact:
The Life Safety Systems/Fire Alarm Engineers may work on several concurrent projects and will be responsible for ensuring that projects are completed on time.
As a Life Safety Systems/Fire Alarm Engineer, youll provide technical design leadership of systems for data center buildings which include fire alarm and detection systems, smoke control systems, fire protection systems, and other life safety or low voltage systems.
As a Life Safety Systems/Fire Alarm Engineer working with our teams, youll use your skills and experience to help our clients, by providing code-compliant asset protection and fire mitigation and life safety solutions. You will be expected to both provide guidance to co-workers and receive solutions from variance senior design professionals so that you can take ownership of various projects as the engineer of record. These solutions include fire alarm, fire detection, fire suppression, gas detection, life safety considerations, smoke modeling, and explosion prevention.
You will interface directly with client counterparts in the designing of their facilities and state and local code officials. Using the various applicable Life Safety & Fire codes as well as industry standards you will provide calculations; equipment size and quantities; equipment and construction specifications; network diagrams and various construction deliverables in both 2D and 3D platforms for a constructible design.
Bring your curiosity, talent for multi-taskingand collaboration, and extreme organizational skills and well help you grow, pursue, and fulfill what drives you so we can make big impacts on the world, together.

Here's what you'll need:

Bachelors degree in engineering
Knowledge and design experience with Fire Alarm Systems and related manufacturers equipment, including VESDA systems
Knowledge of IBC, IFC, NFPA101 Life Safety Code and NFPA 72 Fire Alarm and Signaling Code
Knowledge and application of NFPA 70 (NEC) and electrical design requirements
Knowledge of general design and construction specifications
Experience leading projects and managing resources

Ideally, youll also have:
At least 4 years of Autodesk Revit design experience
Professional Engineering (PE) license
Knowledge of NFPA 75, NFPA 76, NFPA 2001, and NFPA 13 codes
Design experience in data centers
Experience mentoring junior staff
Experience estimating and scheduling mid-to-large-scale projects

About the Company

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Apidel Technologies