Building and Fire Code Associate

Company Overview

Throughout our worldwide network of experts, clients and communities, we are renowned for our leadership in fire protection engineering – a legacy of responsibility we have proudly upheld since 1939. Today, our expertise extends broadly across closely related security and risk-based fields – from accessibility consulting and risk analysis to process safety, forensic investigations, security risk consulting, emergency management, digital innovation and more.

Our engineers and consultants collaborate to solve complex safety and security challenges, ensuring our clients can protect what matters most. For over 80 years, we have helped mitigate risks that threaten lives, property and reputations. Through technology, expertise and industry-leading research, we remain dedicated to our purpose of making our world safe, secure and resilient.

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Job Overview

Jensen Hughes has a new job opportunity for a Building & Fire Code Associate in our Burnaby, BC office. The successful applicant will have a background in fire protection and code consulting and possess strong analytical and creative thinking skills. The role will involve many aspects of fire protection engineering with a focus on Building Code and Fire Code consulting. The position will coordinate and conduct building plan reviews, interpret the building codes, develop alternative solutions, prepare building design reports and coordinate with fire protection engineering design teams. The candidate will be responsible for the review and implementation of fire protection strategies and will coordinate on all matters with design teams and authorities having jurisdiction.

Responsibilities:

• Perform professional-level Code Consulting services such as life safety consulting, performance-based fire engineering design, under the direction of a registered engineer or an experienced consultant.
• Collaborate and work under the direction of engineers to support Code Consulting, Fire Protection engineering and/or security design efforts. This may include assistance with the preparation of Building Code Compliance Reports, Fire Code Compliance Reports, Code Compliance Drawings, and detailed drawing reviews.
• Assist in the resolution of design problems that may include performing field investigations or inspections, detailed design work, and detailed checking of design computations done by others, or general coordination of specific design aspects into a project.
• Identify applicable codes and standards to reference in evaluating how to respond to Client inquiries.
• Conduct and document assigned work such as building code analyses, egress analyses, basic fire detection and alarm systems reviews, smoke control systems reviews and sprinkler and water supply systems reviews, including hydraulic calculations.
• Apply engineering calculations such as sizing the required means of egress, maximum allowable building area, sprinkler system water supplies and smoke control equipment.
• Effectively communicate with project team members, clients and others.
• Responsible self-starter with problem solving and reasoning skills.

Minimum Requirements:

• At least two years of undergraduate schooling (such as Diploma of Technology in the Architectural and Building Technology program at BCIT, or Bachelors of Engineering program) and 1 to 3 years' experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills to write reports, business correspondence, presentations and procedure manuals, and to respond to questions from architects, engineers, and clients
• Passion advancing the science of safety and in exceeding our client expectations

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