Senior Fire Protection Engineer

Overview

Support the FAA's Fire Life Safety Program, including FLS Guidance, policy development, planning, and Condition Risk Assessments (CRA) under the National Airspace System Integration Support Contract (NISC) team.

What you'll do

• Provide final review for all CRA reports from Leidos and subcontractors before delivery to the customer.
• Assist the FAA with development of the Technical Implementation Guide.
• Assist the FAA in fire investigations.
• Maintain CRA templates, guides, SOP and tracking log.
• Assist Leidos fire protection engineers and subcontractors during CRA report closeout meetings.
• Work with the FAA to ensure CRA reports contain the information requested by the FAA.
• Assist in the hiring process of additional personnel.
• Assist with development of FLS code and standards analyses, and provide guidance on the applicability of codes and standards to FAA facilities and technical items.
• Provide FLS guidance to the FAA on program and Agency initiatives where the FLS program is a stakeholder.
• Assist with development of standard specifications for installations at FAA facilities.
• Assist with FLS programmatic planning, prioritization, and consultation regarding program direction and goals.
• Coordinate sites with the customer on dates, locations and facility impacts.
• Develop and maintain a current schedule of CRAs, including visit dates, location, status, team assigned, IRMC status and other relevant information.
• Complete, submit and maintain an IRMC for each project, with appropriate dates, stakeholders and approvers, submitted no less than 30 days prior to site visit and approved before travel.
• Efficiently mitigate findings identified during site visits, as determined by the AJW-23 Program Manager.
• Provide additional CRA support as requested by the AJW-23 Program Manager.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree and 8 or more years of relevant exempt experience, or Master's degree and 6 or more years of relevant exempt experience.
• Professional Engineering License in Fire Protection Engineering or willingness and ability to obtain one.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in the Fire Life Safety/Fire Protection field.
• Strong working knowledge of applicable ICC and NFPA codes.
• Past experience developing and/or providing holistic consultation on FLS programs.
• Ability to produce FLS designs of a variety of critical FLS elements, and provide critical comments on FLS designs and installations.
• Former experience in training FLS concepts and code application is required.
• Experience working in a team and collaborating on issues as a peer with other Fire Protection Engineers.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Travel up to 50% of the time to various FAA locations within the region.

Nice to have

• Professional Engineering License in Fire Protection Engineering.
• Experience with FAA National Airspace System facilities, FAA staffed or unstaffed facilities, or similar government installations.
• Experience with 29 CFR 1960.20.
• Specific experience with programs at Federal agencies, with FAA experience weighted heavily.
• Former training on the use/maintenance of Fire Protection systems.

Details

• Remote position.
• Up to 50% travel within central US.
• Pay range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00 per year.
• Interview requires camera to stay on, and interviewer will take your picture for identification if an offer is extended.