Fire Protection Engineer

Leidos is seeking a Fire Protection Engineer with expertise in Fire Life Safety to join their National Airspace System Integration Support Contract (NISC) team. This role involves supporting the FAA's Fire Life Safety Program and assisting in the development of policies and standards to ensure compliance with regulations.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Develop technical guidance on issues related to design and construction
• 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
• Authoring white papers, proposals, and analysis papers on any of the items above for distribution to FLS stakeholders
• Conduct comprehensive fire protection and life safety surveys of critical air traffic control facilities including airport traffic control towers (ATCT), terminal radar approach control (TRACON) facilities, in air route traffic control centers (ARTCC), and various other types of facilities supporting the FAA’s air traffic control mission
• Evaluate facility human element programs to address OSHA required Emergency Action Plans, Fire Prevention Plans, fire drills, and inspection, testing and maintenance of fire protection and life safety systems
• 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, and other relevant information
• Provide additional CRA support as requested by AJW-23 Program Manager

Requirements:

• Relevant Bachelors' Degree and 4+ years relevant exempt experience or a relevant Masters' Degree and 2+ years relevant exempt experience
• Professional Engineer License or EIT certificate
• Strong working knowledge of applicable ICC and NFPA codes
• Past experience developing and/or providing holistic consultation on FLS programs
• 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
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
• Experience with FAA National Airspace System facilities, FAA staffed or unstaffed facilities, or similar government installations
• Experience with 29 CFR 1960.20
• Specific experience with programs at Federal agencies is preferred, with FAA experience weighted heavily
• Former training on the use/maintenance of Fire Protection systems