Fire Protection Engineer-Hybrid

Vanderweil Engineers is a nationally recognized, top-ranked engineering firm specializing in MEP/FP and technology services. For 75 years, we've delivered innovative solutions across diverse sectors—including Science & Technology, Mission Critical, Academic, Healthcare, and Commercial. As one of the largest independently owned engineering firms in the U.S., our team of 500+ professionals operates from nine offices nationwide, bringing deep expertise and a commitment to excellence to every project.

Our Fire Protection Department services include fire alarm and detection system design, high-rise buildings, large campus fire alarm and protection, sprinkler, emergency communications and more.

Some of your responsibilities include the following:

Design of fire suppression and fire alarm systems in the Mission Critical Market Sector with the potential to work throughout all company market sectors including academic, commercial, healthcare, and science and technology.

The engineer will be responsible for designs of automatic sprinklers, standpipes, fire pumps, gaseous agent suppression, fire alarms, voice evacuation, mass notification, special technology fire detection and smoke control.

Coordinate with the design team and/or construction staff to lead related portions of construction planning and visit the project construction site throughout the construction administration process along with field reports, RFI responses, and FP / FA shop drawing and submittal reviews.

Design and layout systems, and create drawings using Revit, AutoCAD, and HydraCALC.

Survey existing project sites to document existing conditions and to assess existing FP / FA infrastructure.

Essential Skills & Requirements:

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Fire Protection Engineering.

7+ years of professional fire protection engineering industry experience designing fire protection and fire alarm systems.

Proficiency in AutoCAD and Revit with fluency in MS Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook and cloud tools. Strong communication and computer skills are required.