
Fire Protection Engineer
Chantilly, VAFull-time$62–141K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Fire Protection Engineer serves as a subject matter expert on fire protection and life safety issues affecting government facilities. The role reviews technical documents for construction and operations, identifies fire protection solutions, and inspects construction for code and standards compliance. The engineer also supports fire safety audits, system testing, governance, communications, and knowledge management.
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Fire Protection EngineerThe Opportunity: As a Fire Protection Engineer, you’ll serve as a subject matter expert on fire protection and life safety issues affecting government facilities. You’ll review design and other technical documents for construction activities and operations to ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards. You’ll identify optimal fire protection solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity. You’ll conduct inspections of construction to validate compliance of fire protection and life safety aspects.
What You’ll Work On:
- Review planning, programming, architectural, and engineering design documents and other technical documents for proposed construction activities.
- Review and conduct comprehensive fire safety audits, inspections, and investigations of company operations to ensure compliance with fire protections codes and standards.
- Conduct inspections of new construction and renovations to validate compliance of fire protection and life safety aspects.
- Witness acceptance testing and commissioning of fire protection systems and equipment to validate functional compliance.
- Assist with corporate fire protection governance and policy, standard operating procedures, and facility design standards.
- Attend professional meetings within the government to benchmark how industry and other government agencies are addressing similar issues.
- Prepare internal briefings, fact sheets, newsletter articles, and other communications of fire protection and life safety topics and support data collection and metrics development.
- Contribute to the company records and knowledge management activities.
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You Have:
- 3+ years of experience in the fire protection field
- Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
- Bachelor’s degree in Fire Protection Engineering
- Ability to obtain a Professional Engineer (PE) License before start date
Nice If You Have:
- Experience in the fire protection aspects of facility design, construction, and commissioning, including egress, passive fire protection, fire alarm, and fire suppression systems
- Experience with the Unified Facilities Criteria, the International Building Code, and the NFPA Codes and Standards, including NFPA 1, 13, 70, 72, 75, and 10
- Experience in architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering disciplines to evaluate and critique coordinated integration of fire protection concepts into large facilities projects
- Ability to travel to domestic and international locations
- Possession of excellent customer service skills
- Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Graduate of a Fire Protection Engineering Program, including ABET-EAC
- Completion of the fire protection engineering written examination administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)
- Registered PE License
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.
Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $62,000.00 to $141,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
Candidate AI Usage Policy AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.
Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.
- Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
- Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
How this job compares
Set against the 699 open Fire Protection Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 15, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$62–141K/yr
- Virginia median$91–160K/yr34 salary ranges
- US median$91–160K/yr492 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $102K, is 19% below the Virginia median midpoint ($126K) — in the lowest quarter of Fire Protection Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 47 open Fire Protection Engineer jobs in Virginia and 699 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Jacobs9 open
- Jensen Hughes Inc.7 open
- Stantec7 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Fire Protection Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 640 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 607 of the 699 open Fire Protection Engineer jobs (87%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 15, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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