Stantec

Senior Fire Protection Designer

Stantec  •  Houston, TX (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking a Senior Fire Protection Designer to join our Buildings Engineering team. This role is ideal for an experienced fire protection designer who can support technically complex building projects, coordinate across disciplines, and help deliver high-quality fire protection design documents.

The Senior Fire Protection Designer will work with project teams to develop fire alarm, fire suppression, and special hazard system designs in accordance with applicable codes, client requirements, and Stantec standards. This position requires strong technical knowledge, coordination skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with clients, consultants, and project teams.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Design fire alarm, fire suppression, and special hazard systems.
  • Review and develop fire alarm and fire protection system plans.
  • Collaborate with a variety of engineering and architectural disciplines.
  • Communicate with clients and write technical reports.
  • Coordinate and prepare schematic design, design development, and construction documents.
  • Assist in spatial coordination with architecture and other engineering systems.
  • Work collaboratively in a cross-discipline environment to produce integrated project documents and ensure integrated design approaches and solutions.
  • Interface with local authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) and building owner insurance representatives.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

  • 8+ years of related fire protection design experience.
  • Experience in fire suppression, fire alarm, and special hazard system design.
  • Experience with Revit, AutoCAD, and fire protection-related computational programs.
  • Knowledge of ICC and NFPA codes and standards.
  • Experience in Mission Critical and/or Semi-Conductor markets preferred.
  • CFPS, EIT, and/or NICET certification preferred.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Willingness to travel up to 15%.

Education and Experience

  • Associate degree, Engineering Technology degree, Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum of 8 years of related fire protection design experience preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.

Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Stantec

About Stantec

Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.

We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.

Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.

We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Edmonton, CA
Year Founded
Unknown
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