Fire & Life Safety Business Class Lead

About Us

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we work to weave diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and foster a sense of belonging throughout the company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

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We believe that the way we work can add meaning and value to the world. That ideas inspire positive change. That coloring outside the lines can illuminate fresh perspectives. And that small details yield important realizations. Above all, we believe that collaboration is the best way forward.

HDR's Fire & Life Safety (FLS) team is continuing to expand our market sector expertise across HDR's client base, including Civic (e.g., high-rises, auditoriums/arenas, detention, recreational), Federal (DoD, NASA, VA, NPS, GSA), Healthcare, Resources (hazardous materials, power, hydropower, waste, oil/gas/LNG, mining, industrial, fuels, material handling), Science/Tech/Labs, Transportation (aviation, rail, roads/bridges, marine, public transit), and Water (water/waste/storm treatment). Due to this growth, we are seeking a highly motivated Fire Protection Engineer to manage and grow a team consisting of fire protection engineers, fire protection specialists, and fire protection designers. This position reports directly to the Central Texas Building Engineering Services Business Group Manager and will work closely with the National Fire & Life Safety Program Lead and Regional Fire & Life Safety Managers, serving in a consultant role to our internal project teams as well as external clients.

As a member of our FLS team, successful candidates will be tasked with executing production. They will also have a key role in providing leadership in continually evolving and delivering our fire & life safety design services, which include active and passive fire and life safety systems, code consulting, life safety and egress evaluations, performance-based design, fire/smoke/egress modeling, inspection and plan review, hazard and risk analysis, emergency management and planning, structural fire protection, fire root cause analysis, and accessibility consulting.

If you are self-motivated, goal and detail-oriented, take pride and responsibility for your work, and want to advance your career in FLS within a leading A/E firm that appreciates you and your ambitions, look no further.

Success in this role will require the ability to:

• Know your strengths, foster relationships, and be a proactive communicator.
• Share our desire to grow our FLS team nationally.
• Collaborate in a Team environment with a positive and helpful attitude.
• Be highly motivated, constantly seek improvement in how we do things, and be willing to take on new challenges.
• Be able to manage multiple projects immediately, including developing proposals, project planning, staffing, and successful delivery of projects both through independent work and engaging other FLS teammates.
• Cultivate good working relationships with project managers, project teams, FLS teammates, and other clients as we grow our team.
• Effectively network with other fire and life safety industry professionals.

Primary Responsibilities

In the role of Fire & Life Safety Business Class Leader, we'll count on you to:

• Take responsibility for area coordination, monitoring and improvement of technical competencies of business class staff and products to meet client needs and market drivers, all within direction and goals of business class plans
• Participate in delivery of project services to meet client expectations
• Collaborate on business class efforts with area operations, marketing and project management
• Participate in business class practice and professional discipline groups, project teams and activities to continually improve standards and best practices, and implement effective quality assurance and quality control reviews
• Participate in business class strategic planning, budgeting and plan implementation
• Fire protection engineering and code consulting efforts; you will be responsible as engineer of record for projects. Provide consulting for life safety, building, and fire code compliance.
• Performing analysis of existing fire protection systems, as well as designing new fire protection systems including suppression systems, fire detection, alarm and mass notification systems
• Develop thorough and clear Design Analysis, Summary of Code Requirements and Life Safety Plans, and accurate Reports.
• Planning and design details including engineering concepts, distribution plans, riser diagrams, detail drawings, schedules, specifications, design analysis, engineering reports, etc.
• Occasional on-site project observations and reviews; duties required to fulfill contractual obligations for construction phase services; overseeing other personnel assigned to this responsibility.
• Experience in designing fire sprinkler, suppression, and fire alarm systems layouts utilizing hydraulic calculation programs, and knowledge of NFPA Codes, and International Building and Fire Codes is required
• Be involved in marketing planning, proposals and interviews
• Be directly involved with industrial and public clients in marketing, project production and related issues
• Assist with local staff recruitment/hiring, quality control
• Train, develop, and manage technical personnel
• Perform other duties as needed

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field
• 10 years of experience
• Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values
• Maintains a professional or engineering registration and has related technical experience experienced in development and management of diverse teams
• Works cooperatively with other area business class leaders, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers on business class efforts
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

What We Believe

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.