Fire Protection Engineer

About the Role

Fire Protection resides in the Central Programs Engineering Department and is responsible for maintaining fire protection design control and providing technical support to the plant. The role ensures design integrity through effective configuration control of design output documents and NFPA 805 monitoring, and develops long range planning for Fire Protection system improvements. What You'll Do

• Maintain the Fire Protection Design Basis at the site.

• Ensure the three Fire Protection defense in depth echelons are maintained; 1) to prevent fires from starting (combustible/hotwork controls), 2) rapidly detect, control and extinguish fires that do occur thereby limiting damage (fire detection systems, automatic fire suppression, manual fire suppression, pre-fire plans), and 3) provide adequate level of fire protection for systems and structures so that a fire will not prevent essential safety functions from being performed (fire barriers, fire rated cable, success path remains free of fire damage, recovery actions).

• Provide cost-effective modification designs to improve the fire protection program and the safe shutdown capability of the plant.

• Provide Fire Protection technical support to operations, maintenance, engineering and other site organizations.

• Develop, plan and coordinate or implement special projects, corrective action plans, and improvement programs to address fire protection plant problems or regulatory sensitive issues.

• Ensures fire protection engineering products are performed in accordance with the site’s fire protection program and are implemented consistent with defined standards and procedures.

• Consistent with the site’s licensing basis, prepare fire protection impact reviews and evaluations, combustible load and suppression capability calculations, and fire hazards analyses. What We're Looking For

• Minimum education required of the position: B.S. Degree in Fire Protection Engineering or Fire Protection Engineering Technology from an accredited engineering curriculum or equivalent work experience. If not a graduate of the nature (B.S. degree in Fire Protection Engineering or Fire Protection Engineering Technology), a minimum of 6 years engineering experience indicative of growth in engineering competency and achievement in a Highly Protected Risk facility is required.

• Engineer, II: 2+ years of experience (1+ year with master’s degree)

• Engineer, III: 4+ years of experience (3+ years with PE/master’s degree)

• Engineer, Senior: 6+ years of experience (5+ years with PE/master’s degree)

• Engineer, Senior Lead: 10+ years of experience (8+ years with PE/master’s degree)

• Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required: Proficient in fire protection engineering.