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