JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE
- Develop Fire safety processes and procedures.
- Provide strategic advice to senior management on fire protection strategies.
- Conduct fire safety and building code inspections of new and existing buildings for code compliance. Inspections will include the integrated testing of fire alarm systems and all other fire protection systems.
- Review and evaluate the design of fire safety plans and associated reports. (Fire detection equipment, alarm systems, fire extinguishing devices, etc.)
- Provide technical assistance and guidance to other discipline engineers, contractors, facility operators, and various fire department personnel by providing a technical interpretation of building and fire codes.
- Work with other HSSE discipline to develop code compliant fire evacuation strategies for facilities.
- Ensure proper knowledge transfer during facility handover related to life safety systems and documentation.
- Act as a technical resource during major incidents by providing information concerning structural stability, hazardous materials, and fire protection components. Responsible for reactivation and reacceptance tests of life safety systems.
- Assist in the training of HSSE staff with regards to fire science, fire protection components, and fire inspections. Provide presentations and training at various events concerning updates to codes and regulations.
- Assist fire investigators. Duties may include cause and origin determination, reconstruction using fire modeling, system operation, system failure, and code compliance.
- Assist in the pre-incident planning process. Act as a technical reference for building systems and department capabilities.
- Follow up with project engineers all items related to life safety systems and ensure close out.
- Prepare and negotiate third party consultancy services where required.
- Specify technical design and installation standards for new life safety systems.
- Provide technical input during management of changes processes.
- Coordinate and liaise with Qatar Civil Defense in matters related to fire protection.
REQUIREMENTS
- Must have a bachelor degree in Fire safety Engineering or other equivalent engineering discipline.
- Minimum of 10 years proven and documented experience in code enforcement and fire protection consultancy.
- Must be well conversant with NFPA standards and codes.
Must be knowledgeable in:
- Fire protection engineering methods and practices
- Installed fire extinguishing and related safety systems.
- National Fire Protection Association Standards.
- Structural fire protection.
- The nature and characteristics of fire and related hazards.
- Fire prevention systems and practices
- Automatic fire detection systems
- Fire control and suppression systems and practices.
- The hazards and risks associated with fire.
Must be able to:
- Work effectively with other discipline engineers and professionals.
- Communicate effectively with peers, supervisors, and members of the public from different cultures and backgrounds
- Make public presentations regarding fire protection, inspection, and investigation
- Write detailed technical reports.
- Analyze and creatively resolve conflicts between code and operational and economic concerns
- Be tactful in dealings with higher authorities regardless of whether the authority is technically or organizationally higher.
- Interpret local codes and standards pertaining to fire protection.
- Work efficiently with minimal supervision to complete assigned tasks expeditiously
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with other Qatar Civil Defense.
- Identify fire hazards and risks in order to take corrective action.
- Validate Fire model results.
- Write fire engineering scopes for consultants for new projects.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is a private, non-profit organization that serves the people of Qatar by supporting and operating programs in three core mission areas: education, science and research, and community development.
The Foundation strives to nurture the future leaders of Qatar. By example and by sharing its experience, the Foundation also contributes to human development nationally, regionally, and internationally. In all of its activities, the Foundation promotes a culture of excellence in Qatar and furthers its role in supporting an innovative and open society that aspires to develop sustainable human capacity, social, and economic prosperity for a knowledge-based economy.
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