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Job Description
Research causes of fires, determine fire protection methods, and design or recommend materials or equipment such as structural components or fire-detection equipment to assist organizations in safeguarding life and property against fire, explosion, and related hazards.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2111.02
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers”.
Also Known As…
- Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers
- Senior Fire Protection Engineer
- Senior Engineer
- Loss Control Manager
- Lead Fire Protection Engineer
- Fire Protection Engineer and Code Consultant (FP Engineer and Code Consultant)
- Fire Protection Engineer
- Engineer
- Consulting Engineer
- Chief Engineer
- Fire Prevention Research Engineer
- Design Director
Tasks for “Design Director”
- Prepare and write reports detailing specific fire prevention and protection issues, such as work performed, revised codes or standards, and proposed review schedules.
- Attend workshops, seminars, or conferences to present or obtain information regarding fire prevention and protection.
- Design fire detection equipment, alarm systems, and fire extinguishing devices and systems.
- Determine causes of fires and ways in which they could have been prevented.
- Inspect buildings or building designs to determine fire protection system requirements and potential problems in areas such as water supplies, exit locations, and construction materials.
- Consult with authorities to discuss safety regulations and to recommend changes as necessary.
- Evaluate fire department performance and the laws and regulations affecting fire prevention or fire safety.
- Conduct research on fire retardants and the fire safety of materials and devices.
- Develop training materials and conduct training sessions on fire protection.
- Study the relationships between ignition sources and materials to determine how fires start.
- Develop plans for the prevention of destruction by fire, wind, and water.
- Direct the purchase, modification, installation, maintenance, and operation of fire protection systems.
- Advise architects, builders, and other construction personnel on fire prevention equipment and techniques, and on fire code and standard interpretation and compliance.
Related Technology & Tools
- Radiant heaters
- Flammability testers
- Counter-flow slot burners CSB
- Mass flow controllers
- Heat sinks
- Heat flux transducers
- Photoelectric cells
- Oxygen meters
- Smoke density testers
- Helium-neon lasers
- Notebook computers
- Tube furnaces
- Cone calorimeters
- Horizontal furnaces
- Sampling probes
- Digital cameras
- Flame spread testers
- Load cells
- Thermocouples
- Intermediate scale calorimeters
- Oxygen depletion calorimeters
- Room calorimeters
- Orifice-plate flowmeters
- Floor-ceiling furnaces
- Silica-carbide fiber sensors
- Steiner tunnel furnaces
- Furniture calorimeters
- Methane burners
- Wall panel furnaces
- Oxygen analyzers
- Desktop computers
- Propane diffusion flame burners
- Silicon photodiodes
- Flow tunnels
- Collection hoods
- Optical filters
- FIRECALC fire zone modeling software
- Data acquisition software
- Elevator evacuation ELVAC software
- Zone modeling software
- Network flow modeling software
- Available Safe Egress Time ASET
- Large eddy simulation LES software
- Egress EXITT
- CESARE Risk
- A Large Outdoor Fire plume Trajectory model Flat Terrain ALOFT-FT
- Microsoft Word
- Fire Response of Structures Thermal FIRES-T software
- Egress EVACS
- Computational Dynamics STAR-CD
- Mean time to failure MTTF software
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk Revit
- Egress Allsafe
- Consolidated fire and smoke transport model CFAST
- Microsoft Office
- Consolidated compartment fire model CCFM
- JET
- Interconsult Brann G-JET
- Analysis of Smoke Control Systems ASCOS
- Berkeley Algorithm for Breaking Window Glass in a Compartment Fire BREAK1
- Atria smoke management engineering tools ASMET
- Fluent FloWizard
- Fire dynamics simulators
- Microsoft Excel
- Detector Actuation Quasi Steady DETACT-QS
- Finite element method FEM software
- Fire Simulation Technique FIRST software
- Load-bearing analysis software
- Bentley Microstation
- Crows Dynamics Simulex
- Fire Protection Engineering Tools FPETool software
- Simulation of fires in enclosures SOFIE software
- Link actuated vents LAVENT software
- Building Research Establishment BRE Jasmine
- Microsoft Project
- ANSYS
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
- Evacuation modeling software
- Human modeling software
- Microsoft PowerPoint