Final Presentation

1. Miya Buckley-Henning
West Los Angeles College
December 18, 2011

2. Job Description
•Under close supervision.
•Performs professional fire
protection engineering work
involving review and approval
of moderately difficult
construction plans.
•Inspects building sites for
compliance with fire protection
codes and regulations.
•Work under immediate
administrative and technical
supervision of a higher-level
fire prevention engineer.
•Engage in the performance of
professional engineering
assignments of limited reviews.

3.  Approval of construction plans.
 Review of water supply systems.
 Inspects of hydrants accessibility.
 Checks fire access for the purpose of safeguarding life and property against loss from fire,
panic, explosions and related hazards.
 Conducts plan reviews of moderately difficult building plans, such as, small public
assemblages, business occupancies, single family and multi-family residences for fire flow,
hydrant location, access, and proper handling of fire hazardous materials.
 Uses strip maps to plot building plans on tract and parcel maps for the review of property lines
to determine hydrant availability and fire flow.
 Checks building plan; identifies discrepancies in plans with applicable codes; provides
recommendations for resolving discrepancies; conveys such information to project applicant.
 Checks building plan resubmittals and building sites for compliance with requirements and
provides approval for issuance of permits by Building and Safety.
 Performs calculations to determine construction requirements for fire flow; conducts field
inspections to verify hydrant locations; calculates hydrant flow; performs calculations for on-
site fire protection systems, such as automatic sprinkler systems for multi-family and single
family residences.
 Acts as liaison for the Fire Department with building and safety offices or water companies,
providing information pertaining to fire protection requirements.
 Provides interpretations of fire protection regulations to project applicants.
 Assists higher-level fire prevention engineers on more complex assignments including
preliminary review of plans, research of fire codes and on-site inspection of hydrant locations
and structures.
 Provides information to project applicants pertaining to status of plans and informal review of
proposed plans for compliance with applicable regulations and codes.
 Prepares logs and files building plans and maps.
 Works in an assigned support capacity during major emergency incidents.
 Performs inspection with heavy equipment.

4. •Fire protection engineers work in offices in fire stations,
and on building sites in all weather conditions. They may
work at heights or in confined spaces when inspecting a
building.
•Fire protection engineers travel to building sites to inspect
buildings, or to meet with architects or builders. Fire
protection engineers sometimes need to travel to building
sites that have been fire damaged, in order to carry out
post-fire analysis.
•Uniform dress code; white collar shirt, black slacks, black
tie, black shoes, and fire engineer badge.

5. I. Must have knowledge of basic engineering
principles; fire codes and regulations; fire
hazardous materials.
II. Knowledge of mathematics sufficient to perform
related engineering calculations.
III. The ability to read building plans, legal land
maps, and parcels.
IV. Knowledge of building codes, fire codes and
NFPA standards.
V. Current or previous experience in fire alarm and
fire sprinkler design in retail, commercial,
mercantile or related markets.
VI. Knowledge of fire modeling and fire sprinkler
hydraulic calculations.
VII. Superior verbal and written communication
skills.
VIII. Highly proficient in the use of eDAPTS.
IX. Ability to meet fast-paced deadlines while
maintaining quality design.
X. Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple
projects simultaneously.

6. Education
EDUCATION REQUIRED
1. An Associate's degree from
an accredited college with
completion of at least 15
semester units or 23 quarter
units of fire protection
related courses.
2. Completion of two years of a
four year program in an
accredited college or
university with specialization
in civil engineering, fire
protection engineering, fire
protection administration
fire technology related field.
3. Two years experience
performing fire protection
engineering work.

7. I. Fire Prevention Engineer technical skills is really based on Microsoft
Word, Excel, Outlook and eDAPTS.

8. Tools and Equipments
Fire Engineers use
measuring wheel to check
the distance from fire Fire Prevention Engineers also
hydrant to constructed uses a wrench and hose nozzle
work site. to open up fire hydrants to
check water pressure from the
fire hydrant.
Fire Prevention Engineers use the computer software called eDapts to input
plans into the computer and to assign a parcel number to the project that’s being
constructed.

9. SALARY FOR EXPERIENCED
SALARY FOR BEGINNERS WORKERS
80,000 140,000
70,000 120,000
100,000
60,000
80,000
50,000
60,000
40,000 40,000 Experience
Beginners
30,000 20,000 15+ years
20,000 0
10,000
0
Beginners

10. Fire Prevention Engineers can also become Fire Prevention Engineer II which
they need to have the following experiences;
1. Five years experience performing fire protection engineering work -
OR - Two years experience at the level of Fire Prevention Engineering
Assistant I.
2. Fire Engineers pay increase went up to 12.5%.

11. Membership of the Institution of Fire Engineers is normally conferred
through an examination process. Individuals who achieve successful
scores on the membership examinations of the Institution are
admitted to the appropriate grades based upon the nature and
content of the examinations passed.
This committee gives you a diploma so others can recognize the
accomplishments you already had completed. Information listed
below;
http://www.ife-usa.com/Membership.asp#Additional information

12. Resources
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