Lead Fire Protection Engineer – Facility Design
Job Description
Join Olsson’s South Facilities Engineering and Design team as a Senior Fire Protection Engineer, where you’ll take the lead on complex, mission-critical projects, including hyperscale data centers and secure facilities. This is a highly visible role within a multidisciplinary team known for delivering innovative, high-performance building systems.
You’ll provide technical leadership on fire protection strategies that safeguard infrastructure, protect assets, and meet the most rigorous code and client requirements. You’ll collaborate with architects, MEP engineers, and security professionals across sectors such as data centers, healthcare, higher education, commercial, industrial and federal facilities.
Primary Responsibilities:
Lead the design and execution of fire protection systems for secure and mission-critical facilities
Develop and review fire suppression, alarm, and life safety system designs to meet client and code requirements (NFPA, IBC, IFC, UFCs, etc.)
Serve as the technical expert and client liaison for fire protection scopes on data center and secure facility projects
Coordinate across disciplines to ensure fully integrated system design
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal knowledge-sharing
Support proposal development and contribute to project scope and scheduling
Occasionally travel to project sites or other Olsson offices as needed (approximately 10% or less)
Qualifications
You are passionate about:
Working collaboratively with others.
Having ownership in the work you do.
Using your talents to positively affect communities.
You bring to the team:
Strong communication skills
Ability to contribute and work well with a team
Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
Bachelor’s degree in Fire Protection, Mechanical, or a related engineering discipline
Professional Engineer (PE) license required; FPE preferred
8+ years of experience in fire protection engineering
4+ years of experience supervising and/or mentoring technical personnel.
Experience with hyperscale data centers, government, or other secure facilities
Strong working knowledge of NFPA standards, IBC, IFC, UFCs and client specifications
Proficiency with relevant design and modeling tools preferred (e.g., REVIT, AutoSPRINK, HydraCAD, or similar)
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