Senior Fire Protection Engineer

Leidos has an opening for a Senior Fire Protection Engineer.

Join the National Airspace System Integration Support Contract (NISC) team to assist the Environmental Occupational Safety and Health (EOSH) Services Group AJW-23 to support and improve Fire Life Safety (FLS) program elements intended to protect employees and others in the workplace and ensure Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) compliance with Federal, State, and FAA laws and regulations.

Subject areas where services are needed include program management, Condition Risk Assessments (CRA), and Stairwell Pressurization Engine Generator (EG) replacement.

Senior Fire Protection Engineer Primary Responsibilities:
In this role you will support numerous facets of the FAA's Fire Life Safety (FLS) Program, FLS Guidance, Policy Development, and Planning, specifically:

• Provide final review for all CRA reports from Leidos and subcontractors before the reports are delivered to the customer.

• Assist the FAA with the development of the Technical Implementation Guide.

• Assist the FAA in fire investigations.

• Maintain CRA templets and guides.

• Maintain CRA SOP.

• Maintain CRA tracking log.

• Assist Leidos fire protection engineers and subcontractors during CRA report closeout meetings.

• Work with the FAA to ensure the CRA reports contain the information requested by the FAA.

• Assist in the hiring process of additional personnel.

• Assist with the development of FLS code and standards analyses.

• Provide guidance on the applicability of codes and standards to FAA facilities, its mission, and specific technical items encountered.

• Provide FLS guidance to the FAA on program and Agency initiatives where the FLS program is a stakeholder.

• Assist with the development of standard specifications for installations at FAA facilities.

• Assist with FLS programmatic planning initiatives, prioritization, and consultation regarding program direction and goals.

• FLS Condition Risk Assessments (CRA).

• Coordination of sites with customer on specific dates, locations, impacts to the facility, etc.

• Develop and maintain a current schedule of CRA's, at all times, with dates of visit, location, current status of CRA, team assigned, IRMC status, and other relevant information.

• Complete, submit and maintain applicable IRMC for each project, with appropriate dates, stakeholders, approvers, etc. IRMC will be submitted no less than 30 days prior to site visit and will be approved before traveling to site.

• Efficiently mitigate findings identified during site visits determined by the AJW-23 Program Manager as appropriate.

• Provide additional CRA support as requested by AJW-23 Program Manager.

Senior Fire Protection Engineer Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and 8 or more years relevant exempt experience or Masters degree and 6 or more years relevant exempt experience.

• Requires a Professional Engineering License in Fire Protection Engineering and at least 5+ years of progressive experience in the Fire Life Safety/Fire Protection field.

• Strong working knowledge of applicable ICC and NFPA codes is required.

• Past experience developing and/or providing holistic consultation on FLS programs is required.

• Ability to produce FLS designs of a variety of critical FLS elements, and be able to provide critical comments on FLS designs and installations.

• Former experience in training FLS concepts and code application is required. experience working in a team and collaborating on issues as a peer with other Fire Protection Engineers.

• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

• Travel up to 50% of the time to various FAA locations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with FAA National Airspace System facilities, FAA staffed or unstaffed facilities, or similar government installations.

• Experience with 29 CFR 1960.20 is highly desired.

• Specific experience with programs at Federal agencies is preferred, with FAA experience weighted heavily.

• Former training on the use/maintenance of Fire Protection systems is highly desired.

NISC IV

Original Posting:

March 27, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $89,700.00 - $162,150.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.