Fire Protection Designer

HED is looking to add an experienced team member to our talented team. The Fire Protection Design Engineer is a seasoned contributor with advanced Revit expertise, proven documentation skills, and growing leadership capability.

About HED We are a team that is full of ideas, experience, creativity, passionate opinions, insatiable curiosity, uncompromising integrity, commitment, and skill. Our culture is about aspiration, embracing change and challenges, listening to (and learning from) each other, encouraging continual learning, and inspiring collective growth. As an inclusive, integrated architecture and engineering practice, we value the diversity of perspectives, experiences, abilities, and expertise that advance both the work we do, and the world we share.

Position Summary This role balances deep technical contributions with oversight responsibilities, including mentorship, QAQC, and project coordination. The Fire Protection Design Engineer III operates independently on complex tasks, delegates work to others, and acts as a key resource for system integration and design strategy across the team.

Essential Functions

• Lead the development of medium-to-large scale fire protection design packages in Revit with minimal redlines or rework.
• Develop and enforce fire protection Revit standards, families, and workflows across teams.
• Create advanced fire protection system layouts and manage complex modeling tasks independently.
• Oversee drawing production, ensuring code compliance and graphic clarity across all fire protection documents.
• Generate and review technical documentation including Division 21 specifications and report narratives.
• Perform and validate fire protection equipment sizing and calculations without oversight.
• Lead cross-discipline coordination meetings and resolve system conflicts with internal and external teams.
• Develop and apply standard calculation methods and templates for internal use.
• Coordinate the BIM Execution Plan with input from multiple disciplines and ensure adherence.
• Manage fire protection portions of the project scope independently, delegating drafting or research tasks to staff.
• Estimate, track, and manage hours for self-performed and delegated work.
• Lead field surveys, fire protection construction administration responses, and fire protection RFI reviews as a primary contact.
• Train and mentor fire protection team members on design practices, tools, and standards.
• Delegate work strategically based on skill level and workload capacity of team members.
• Lead QAQC efforts on both self-produced and delegated work, ensuring conformance to HED standards.
• Provide constructive feedback and contribute to staff development through mentorship.
• Act as the lead fire protection representative in client meetings, confidently presenting technical design intent.
• Document meeting outcomes and action items related to fire protection systems clearly, sharing responsibility for technical coordination follow-up.
• Engage in early project scoping discussions and support proposal efforts with technical narratives and fee input for fire protection system design.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, or equivalent, required.
• 5+ years of experience in the AEC industry preferred.
• Written and verbal communication skills commensurate with the position required.
• Strong organizational skills preferred.
• Revit experience required.
• Experience with computers, specifically for word processing, spreadsheet use/creation and email required.
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated, enthusiastic, flexible and curious personalities required.
• Ability to work well with others under deadline situations required.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to effectively communicate in writing and verbally via phone, video conferencing, and in-person.
• Visual acuity to perform responsibilities.

Work Environment

• We embrace a hybrid model that promotes both autonomy and collaboration, including the freedom to work from home, with regular in-office days to connect with teammates and build culture.
• The office is a professional, open-space environment for collaborative and independent work.

Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.