Job Description
Senior Fire Protection Engineer – Data Centers
Job Type: Direct Hire
Compensation: $130,000 - $150,000 (based on experience)
Travel: Approximately 15–25%
Schedule: Remote candidates cannot be located in: Alaska, California, Delaware, Washington D.C., Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, or Washington.
Job Type: Direct Hire
Compensation: $130,000 - $150,000 (based on experience)
Travel: Approximately 15–25%
Schedule: Remote candidates cannot be located in: Alaska, California, Delaware, Washington D.C., Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, or Washington.
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Fire Protection Engineer to lead the design and execution of fire protection systems for hyperscale data centers, government facilities, and other secure/mission-critical environments. This is a senior technical role responsible for developing fire protection strategies, leading complex designs, coordinating across engineering disciplines, and mentoring junior engineers.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the design and execution of fire protection systems for mission-critical and secure facilities
- Develop and review fire suppression, fire alarm, and life safety system designs
- Serve as a technical expert and client liaison for fire protection scopes
- Ensure designs comply with NFPA, IBC, IFC, UFC, and client-specific requirements
- Coordinate with architects, MEP engineers, security professionals, and other disciplines
- Provide technical guidance and mentor junior engineers
- Support proposal development, project scoping, and scheduling
- Travel to project sites as needed, approximately 15–25%
Qualifications
- 8+ years of fire protection engineering experience
- Experience with hyperscale data centers, government, secure, or other mission-critical facilities
- Bachelor's degree in Fire Protection Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- Professional Engineer (PE) license required
- FPE preferred
- Strong knowledge of NFPA standards, IBC, IFC, UFC, and client specifications
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to provide technical leadership and work effectively across multidisciplinary teams
Software
Proficiency with relevant fire protection design and modeling tools, preferably:
- Revit
- AutoSPRINK
- HydraCAD
- Similar fire protection design/modeling software
Project Types
This position will primarily support hyperscale data centers, government facilities, secure facilities, and other mission-critical projects, with additional exposure to healthcare, higher education, commercial, industrial, and federal facilities.
Benefits
This direct-hire opportunity offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, retirement benefits, paid time off, paid holidays, and additional company-sponsored benefits
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Overland Park, KS |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $130,000–$150,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Fire Alarmunmatched
- Fire Safetyunmatched
- Fire Suppression/Controlunmatched
- Governmentunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Higher Educationunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
- Life Safety Systemsunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)unmatched
- Netscape IFC (Internet Foundation Classes)unmatched
- Network Operations Centerunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Professional Engineerunmatched
- Project Estimatesunmatched
- Project Scheduleunmatched
- Proposal Developmentunmatched
- Software Designunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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