Hybrid Fire Alarm Designer

at Honeywell

• Job title: Fire Alarm Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: CA$95,000 - CA$105,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Associate's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sherwood Park, Canada

About the role

• Fire Alarm Designer providing engineering solutions and ensuring safety at Honeywell. Involves project management, design preparation, and technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of life safety/fire alarm system engineering end to end, providing concrete fire alarm solutions based on systematic code analysis and customer specifications.
• Review contract plans, scope and specifications, MRs, survey information, sales sketches, estimates, and take-off sheets for opportunities and proposals, clearly define design scope and boundaries, establish the master plan, identify RFIs etc. prior to starting engineering.
• Prepare design shop drawings, including field device layout, riser diagrams, equipment elevations, detailed wiring, point-to-point device wiring, logic diagrams, line loss calculations, battery calculations, BOM, cable schedules, etc.
• Change management and containment.
• Manage project engineering from conception through to completion, ensuring timelines and budgets, as well quality metrics are met.
• Software programming for fire alarm, voice evacuation, mass notification, smoke control, releasing services etc.
• Communicate technical concepts/solutions to internal and external customers, conduct site walks, accurately review customer specs, identify opportunities or risks and resources required to achieve results during the engineering cycle.
• Prepare submittals per engineering standards, ensuring commitment dates are met, and review submittals with project teams to obtain hardware submittal approval.
• Support Sales and Project Managers on surveys, application selection, layout of potential retrofit opportunities, and assessing customers' business objectives and strategies.
• Professionally communicate in writing and verbally to account team, proposal team, and customers.
• Advise and consult as a technical expert to sales and Project Managers to drive and implement short and long-term projects.
• Manage personal backlog of projects and multitask to produce desired results in a deadline-driven environment.
• Build positive and effective working relations with both internal customers (sales, PMs, techs) and external customers.
• Conduct activities in a safe and healthy manner, working in accordance with established HS&E requirements to ensure the protection of associates, the public, and the environment.

Requirements

• Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or related disciplines.
• 3 years of Electrical Engineering/Design experience in Fire Alarm Systems.
• 3 years of experience with AutoCAD, Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• 3 years of experience with Fire Codes including IBC, IFC, NBC, NFC, NFPA 72, UL/ULC standards for Life Safety Systems.