Associate
Provides professional-level fire protection engineering services such as life safety code consulting, sprinkler design, fire alarm design, performance-based fire engineering design, under the direction of a P.E. or an experienced consultant.Essential Functions and Duties:- Meet client needs and expectations by completing assigned tasks in the time and budget allotted and tracking and documenting time spent on assigned tasks and duties.- 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.