Engineer - Life Safety Systems & Telecommunications

What you'll do

• Guide consultants, contractors, and vendors on fire alarm, detection, emergency communication, and related life-safety systems.
• Review technical documents and assess systems for code compliance, constructability, maintainability, capacity, and integration with facility systems.
• Coordinate technical issue resolution and support installation, testing, commissioning, cutovers, system recovery, and turnover.

What they ask for

• At least 4 years of applicable engineering experience, including at least 2 years involving fire alarm, fire detection, or life-safety systems.
• Knowledge of NFPA 72, NFPA 70/NEC, NFPA 101, IFC, IBC, and applicable local fire and building codes.
• Experience reviewing or developing fire alarm plans, sequences of operation, cause-and-effect documentation, submittals, shop drawings, and RFIs.
• Experience evaluating system calculations and capacity, and supporting installation, testing, commissioning, acceptance testing, and turnover.

Nice to have

• Experience in crucial facilities or operating facilities; NICET Level II certification or above.
• Experience with EST/Edwards, Fireworks, VESDA/HSSD, process or facility-control systems, or AI-assisted and digital engineering tools.

Tools

NFPA 72, NFPA 70/NEC, NFPA 101, IFC, IBC, EST/Edwards, Fireworks, VESDA/HSSD

AI focus

Preferred use of AI-assisted and digital engineering tools to review technical information, identify issues and patterns, support build assessments, develop documentation, improve coordination, and increase engineering workflow efficiency.