Senior Fire Protection Engineer-Data Center

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design,

engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving

quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many

curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and

deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Fire Protection Engineer with a strong

background in data center and Industrial environments to support our U.S. Places

Design & Engineering business.

In this role, you will partner closely with multi-disciplinary teams—including

Mechanical, Electrical Engineers, Architects, and clients—to deliver fire

protection design solutions for mission-critical facilities, with a primary

focus on data centers and Industrial projects.

You will lead the fire protection discipline across multiple concurrent

projects, guiding efforts from early pursuit and proposal through detailed

design and construction administration.

Periodic travel to project sites is expected (approximately 1 week per month) to

support client engagement, site assessments, and project delivery.

Role accountabilities:

* Lead the fire protection design for data center and mission-critical facility

projects, ensuring systems meet reliability, redundancy, and uptime

requirements

* Develop construction-ready design packages including drawings,

specifications, and coordinated BIM models, ensuring alignment across all

disciplines

* Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers and designers

* Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and architectural teams to integrate

fire protection systems within complex, high-density environments

* Support business development efforts, including proposals, cost estimates,

schedules, and client engagement

* Perform site assessments, field investigations, and fire protection studies

specific to data centers (e.g., suppression strategy, hazard analysis, system

retrofits)

* Utilize and support modeling and design through tools such as Revit, BIM

platforms, AutoCAD, Navisworks, and fire protection-specific software (e.g.,

HydraCAD, Sprink Cad FDT, Aspire)

* Maintain strong client relationships and serve as a technical advisor on fire

protection strategies for data center projects

Qualifications & Experience:

* Bachelor’s degree in Fire Protection Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or

a related discipline

* Professional Engineer (PE) license in Fire Protection (U.S.) required

* Demonstrated experience designing fire protection systems for data centers,

mission-critical facilities, or high-tech industrial environments

* Strong understanding of fire protection system strategies in data centers,

including: 

* Clean agent systems (e.g., FK-5-12, Sapphire, Inergen, Aragonite)

* Wet, Pre-action, Deluge and dry pipe systems

* Fire Alarm Design including VESDA Type and Beam Detection

* Redundancy and cost-effective design considerations

* Deep knowledge of applicable codes and standards including NFPA (e.g., NFPA

13, 20, 22, 24, 72, 75, 76), IFC, IBC, and FM Global guidelines)

* Experience delivering Issued for Construction (IFC) design packages, ideally

in complex or regulated environments

* Familiarity with high-availability facility requirements and coordination

with MEP systems supporting critical loads

* Strong communication skills, with the ability to present technical solutions

to clients and internal teams

* Strong Team working skills for a hybrid work environment utilizing Microsoft

Teams, Slack, Zoom.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We

believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a

skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and

expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make

together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver

sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your

career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition

is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our

people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of

non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color,

religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual

orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or

any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits

include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance,

paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits

including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We

offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range

for this position is $101,000 - $175,000. Actual salaries will vary and are

based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal

equity, project and location.