Americas Arup

Vacancy Number 09-0289
Post Date 09/03/2009
Discipline Fire
Title Graduate Fire Engineer
Description Start your career at Arup, the top-listed engineering firm in the 2007 Building Design & Construction Magazine’s “Best AEC Firms to Work For” . . . FROM THE START, a newly-graduated engineer receives:


  • Substantial Engineering Work Assignments
  • A Training Plan for Accelerated Professional Growth
  • Work Opportunities That Acknowledge Ability, Not Seat-Time
  • Full Membership in a Global Network of Experts

    As Consulting Engineers, where what we “sell” is engineering knowledge in support of architectural excellence, Arup understands that each person’s development is linked to our success in the industry, which then creates more opportunity for all. This is why 91% of staff know that their own work has a positive impact on the success of the firm, why 70% of our projects are repeat business (often with world-class architects) and why Arup consistently remains in the ENR Rankings Top 25 International Design Firms (2007 ranking: 4th in General Building).

    With such close synergy and alignment between personal and corporate goals, Arup looks for talented individuals who exhibit exceptional technical skill and also have personal characteristics that will help to propagate the long term Arup values of:

  • Quality of Work
  • Holistic Approach
  • Humane Organization
  • Straight and Honorable Dealings
  • Social Usefulness
  • Reasonable Prosperity of Members

    Your typical responsibilities will include:
  • Develop portions of fire and life safety strategies
  • Complete conceptual emergency evacuation and smoke management calculations
  • Review drawings for conformance to the fire and life safety strategy
  • Assist with the development of fire and evacuation simulations
  • Assist with the development of structural fire calculations
  • Assist senior engineers to help clients to incorporate fire and life safety strategy concepts into the design
  • Attend meetings and learn from listening, asking questions and discussion.
    • Requirements
  • BS in Fire Protection or Mechanical Engineering
  • Professional demeanor
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Skills in planning and organizing
  • Attitude of taking initiative, enthusiasm, eagerness to learn.

    Preferred:
  • 3.5 GPA or higher, Masters in Fire Protection Engineering
  • Coursework in Fire Dynamics, Evaluation, Building Codes, and Fire Protection Systems
  • Internship experience with a design firm
  • Experience with Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation software (Fire Dynamics Simulator, Fluent, or others) or evacuation software
  • Proven ability to perform in a deadline environment
  • Past history of technical presentations and technical writing
  • Evidence of personal investment in academic or extracurricular field.

    • We are currently hiring in Boston, NYC, DC, LA and San Fran.

    To understand why 92% of our staff say they are proud to work for Arup, one only needs to look at the talents and qualities that we seek out and then intentionally grow. Through a two-year skill-building period of on-the-job training in engineering analysis, supervised design of parts of real projects, responsibility for production of selected drawings and report content, in-house courses in multi-disciplinary design, and project site visits, the graduate engineer quickly becomes an essential part of the delivery team.

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