Remote Senior Fire Protection Engineer

Job Details

Job Location: SAN ANTONIO, TX 78230

NIKA is hiring for a Senior Fire Protection Engineer to support the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) Engineering Division in San Antonio, TX. This role allows for fully remote work with required travel to work sites.

Named a Top Workplace by the Washington Post, NIKA is a well-established company that is focused on growth within an entrepreneurial environment. We work with governments to operate and manage their real property. Our operations management, engineering, and project management services provide our customers with value and expertise to ensure operational readiness for complex and mission-critical facilities. NIKA benefits include PTO, holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k matching, and an understanding of work/life balance. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinates and provides leadership to the Engineering Infrastructure team in all matters related to fire protection systems in support of the MHS mission. Plans and directs engineering activity projects related to fire safety.
• Uses a broad range of CAD/BIM and other software and fire protection code/standards to provide the plans, specification, hydraulic calculations, material lists, fabrication details, and other documentation for DHA/FE and DHA/FOB projects.
• Meets all required state and local codes, authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) requirements, Joint Commission for Healthcare Accreditation, and DoD standards in the development of fire protection systems.
• Conducts building fire protection, code, and life safety evaluations.
• Prepares and presents technical reports and presentations. Performs field analysis with associated reports and presentations.
• Performs functional testing and commissioning for government acceptance of systems delivered through the point-by-point verification of design, installation, functionality and performance of existing and newly installed fire protection equipment and systems.
• Coordinates with project managers to support facility modifications and other projects to ensure scope and specification compliance for major and minor projects involving fire protection equipment and systems.
• Evaluate proposed projects and technical solutions based on need, code compliance, effectiveness, and life cycle cost.
• Answer technical Requests for Information (RFIs) in accordance with codes, regulations, and DHA policy and procedures.
• Travel to sites to investigate open requirement packages and conduct detailed inspections of existing conditions of equipment, evaluate the effectiveness of current maintenance procedures, and confirm the use of correct operational practices.
• Provide a comprehensive and formal travel report detailing the observations, findings, and recommendations conveyed in a technical manner that remains consumable by a non-engineer.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Fire Protection Engineering.
• Minimum of five (5) years demonstrated practical experience in the healthcare field. Three (3) years of this experience must have occurred within the last four (4) years. Practical experience is defined has having the direct responsibility for execution of design, maintenance, or major repair of fire protection systems supporting institutional, industrial, or medical healthcare campuses.
• The expectation of this position is to possess the expertise and experience to resolve complex problems that his/her contemporaries cannot resolve.
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Ability to obtain security clearance is required
• Travel approximately 6-12 times per year

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Expert level skills and extensive practical experience in all aspects of fire protection systems necessary to accurately design, analyze, and manage those systems.
• Knowledgeable of local, municipal, and federal building codes, criteria, and standards.
• Have strong interpersonal, communicative, diplomatic, and analytical skills to provide highly professional, technically sound fire protection engineering strategies to project stakeholders.
• Current Registered Professional Engineering License in the field of Fire Protection.
• Proven expertise in the use of computer aided design software such as AutoCAD, Bluebeam, or Revit.

NIKA provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed