Fire Protection Engineer

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position : This is a permanent position with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Engineering & Support Center, Huntsville, Directorate of Engineering, Mechanical-Electrical Division.

Duties

• Serve as the agency's technical authority on Fire Prevention, Fire Protection, and Life Safety (FPP) engineer.
• Provide expert advice on the interpretation and implementation of Fire Prevention, Fire Protection, and Life Safety (FPP) policy directives and programs.
• Establish and implement Fire Prevention, Fire Protection, and Life Safety (FPP) engineering regulations, criteria, and standards.
• Possess knowledge of DoD, US, and foreign Fire Prevention, Fire Protection, and Life Safety (FPP) codes, regulations, criteria, standards, and policies.
• Review and approve fire prevention, protection, and detection designs, scopes of work, performance work statements, studies, and analyses prepared by in-house personnel or Architect-Engineer (A-E) firms for technical accuracy.
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to agency programs regarding Fire Prevention, Fire Protection, and Life Safety (FPP) engineering design, information, data, and problems.
• Serve as senior engineer team leader during site visits for the purpose of making surveys and / or providing consultative services concerning FPP engineering.
• Provide direction and coordination to support the efforts of architects, site, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineers to produce comprehensive fire prevention and protection documents.
• Develop contract documentation in the preparation of design studies, scopes of work, performance work statements, assessments, contract drawings, etc., for the agency.
• Coaches less experienced engineers through design, review, construction and operation and maintenance activities involved in fire protection activities.

Requirements

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