Fire Alarm Designer

Overview

Reporting to the FA Design Manager, an Alarm Designer II is a primary contact for customer facing work, completing milestones and tasks as set by the project manager for work, and executes all fire and life safety work, reports, and other product in line with company quality and safety standards. This role will be responsible for maintaining their design abilities as related to NRG and industry CAD design programs and new software and hardware in our industry.

This position will be responsible to discuss any needed training or certifications for themselves with their supervisor, and ensure they are on track and in process for completion.

Responsibilities

Daily:

· Coordinate with in house project manager to review workload. Update project management tools to ensure their project process, due dates, and completion dates.

· Attend all virtual meetings as required.

· Ensure committed work dates are achieved.

· Schedule site visits, site inspections, and other work if necessary.

· Travel as needed to work on project sites, complete work during travel if necessary.

· Complete assigned site, project, report, and review work as needed.

· Submit work as needed for peer review, revise as needed to meet customer dates, deliver work to the assigned point, in house or customer direct.

· Coordinate with external partners as needed to ensure vendors and customers are available as needed to complete work tasks.

· Complete alarm system design work as needed, including specification, calculations, all NFPA 72 details and notes, and other product as needed.

· Ensure all central project folders and files are maintained such that team partners can easily access and find the most appropriate and correct version of design progress.

· Work with team engineer to gain internal approval and sign and seal as needed.

Weekly:

· Complete all required expense reporting.

· Review all projects worked on for the week on the project list, update project tracking as needed.

· Complete all required time entry for payroll and customer billing.

· Schedule upcoming travel in accordance with company or customer standards.

Monthly:

· Remain active in national design forums, build NRG presence in online forums.

Quarterly:

· Participate in performance assessment exercise with supervisor.

· Measure performance against self development goals with supervisor.

Annually:

· Attend all-hands, face to face, team meeting for design group when required.

· Meet with supervisor to complete annual performance evaluation and establish goals for coming year.

· Maintain and track all professional certifications, plan out and act on needed education and progression of certifications.

Experience

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or related field, preferred but not required.

Certifications/Licenses

Required: NICET Level II or higher and other as deemed necessary by NRG.

Experience Required

Minimum of 5 years of alarm system design. Basic experience with CAD and Revit based fire suppression system design software and tools. FireCad or similar software experience is preferred.

Experience (In Years)

5-10 years’ experience.

Competencies (Trade/Profession)

Full knowledge of building and fire based codes and standards such as NFPA 72, and others as they pertain to state and local requirements. Full Knowledge in electrical work and all calculations for alarm systems. Full practical understanding of alarm systems, and how they coordinate and interact with other trades and the structure of a building.

Competencies (Software/Tools)

Required: CAD, and fire system design software (FireCad or equivalent), Microsoft Office Suite, engineering/ design tools.

Analytical/Interpersonal Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, demonstrated ability to adhere to company fire suppression and design standards. Ability to work within tight project timeframes and communicate effectively with customers. Ability to adapt company design standards to those of our customers, and to maintain conformance of the look and feel of our design product.

Pay: $70,000.00 - $105,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Remote