Worley Group, Inc Looking for Principal Fire Protection Engineer at Reading, PA  Full Time

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Purpose:

You will provide fire protection and detection engineering services to Worley and its customers, including technical support within the mechanical engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver fire protection and detection services that meet Worley, its customers and applicable statutory and regulatory specifications, on time and within budget
• Participate in relevant meetings, prepare progress reports and follow required checking procedures
• Ensure the project scope is clear and that changes comply with project change management processes
• Size, select, specify, perform technical evaluation of bids and vendor document reviews
• Proactively resolve any discrepancies between Worley and its customer’s requirements.
• Communicate effectively with the project stakeholders, including the customers
• Identify issues and problems, develop appropriate solutions, and ask for assistance when required

What you will bring

Technical and Industry Experience:

• Extensive experience in the design and analysis of fire protection systems and life safety issues for Substations and Power Generation industry including simple cycle and combined cycle power plants.
• Experience in estimating project costs and writing proposal content
• Experience with all aspects of fire protection equipment and system procurement, including sizing, selection, specifying, evaluation of bids and vendor document reviews.
• Experience with fire water distribution system hydraulic calculations
• Experience with design of fire alarms, suppression systems, explosion protection and hazardous area classifications.
• Able to work with project engineering to maintain consistency of deliverables, communication among disciplines, and cost/schedule control.
• Experience with fire and explosion assessments.
• Highly effective technical and practical engineering skills and ability to consistently deliver quality, accurate and timely work to Worley and its customers
• A sound knowledge of applicable local and international standards and statutory and regulatory requirements
• Competent use of relevant software such as MS Office Suite

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:

Required:

• 4 or 5 year Bachelor degree in Mechanical/Fire Protection Engineering

Preferred:

• Professional Engineer (PE) in the United States

What we offer you

Providing an agile culture and challenging work opportunities results in a positive work environment. Our people enjoy competitive compensation packages and a fun, personal, collaborative and safe working environment. We value equal employment opportunity and are committed to promoting fairness, equality and diversity.

Our policy is to conduct background checks for all candidates who accept an offer of employment with us. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you have the passion and talent to keep up, it’s time to test the limits of what you can become. Find your future with Worley.

Please note: No agency representation or submissions will be recognized for this vacancy.