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