Fire Protection Engineer

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