Fire Protection Engineer

Overview

At SSOE, our growth allows us to offer the opportunities normally associated with a large firm, while embracing the collaborative and supportive culture often found in smaller firms. You’ll experience our employee-centric culture that strives to offer a healthy work-life balance, great employee benefits, and a mindset of continuous learning.

SSOE is looking to hire a Fire Protection Engineer to join our team allowing the selected individual with the opportunity to participate in the design of state-of-the-art industrial and manufacturing facilities for the world’s leading companies. The position is assigned to the SSOE Toledo, Ohio office location, in the AMF Division.

As a Fire Protection Engineer, you will be responsible for working with other contributing mid-senior level Fire Protection Engineers and design teams to create exciting and complex designs that incorporate some of the latest design techniques, while ensuring that all specifications are met, and to ensure timely completion of projects. This Fire Protection Engineer will support the drawing performance specification design, BIM modeling, coordination, and delivery of fire protection systems for industrial, commercial, and manufacturing projects. Working under the guidance of senior engineers, this Engineer applies fire protection engineering principles, BIM/Revit tools, and applicable codes and standards to produce quality design solutions and construction documents.

AI and Innovation

At SSOE, we don’t just talk about the future, we build it. As a leader in industry AI adoption, we empower our team to work smarter by providing responsible access to the industry leading AI Large Language Models, vibe-coding platforms, and securely integrating advanced tools into every role. From day one, you’ll receive the training and support needed to leverage AI as a core tool for enhancing productivity, sparking creativity, and streamlining complex workflows.

Responsibilities

• Applies intensive and diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments.
• Makes decisions independently on engineering problems, practices, and methods and may create and refine unique design solutions. In the case of a licensed staff member, acting as a lead project engineer, this includes but is not limited to, the stamping/sealing of one's drawings/documents as well as drawings/documents done as the professional in "responsible charge" as defined by the applicable statute of jurisdiction.
• Plans, develops, coordinates, and directs a medium to large fire protection projects or a number of smaller complex projects with overall responsibility for budget adherence, schedule adherence, quality control, and inter-discipline coordination.
• Responsible for acceptance or rejection of major items involving materials, equipment, manufacturer's quality, and field construction.
• Supervision and guidance related largely to overall objectives, critical issues, new concepts, policy matters, and/or unusual problems and developments.
• Defines fire protection project scope of work and organizes into manageable tasks.
• Provides supervisor and project manager with scope of work change orders.
• Meets with client to define project scope, present project progress, and assure client satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialty in Fire Protection. PE or PE-tracked preferred.
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience in fire protection.
• Knowledge of AutoCAD.
• Proficient in Revit Design for modeling of fire protection piping and components.
• Knowledgeable of NFPA standards and international fire codes.
• Direct experience evaluating fire protection water supply requirements, fire sprinkler hydraulic calculations and system piping and sprinkler heads layout.
• Valid driver's license required. May be waived for international assignments.
• Salary Range: $100,000-$125,000 /year depending on location, education, experience, and any certifications that are directly related to the position.
• Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, 401K, PTO & paid holidays.
• Travel required