[Hiring] Fire Protection Discipline Lead @HARRISON FRENCH & ASSOCIATES LTD

Role Description

The Fire Protection Discipline Lead serves as the technical, project delivery, and people leader for the Fire Protection team. This role focuses on executing and delivering HFA's vision, purpose, and code in addition to Project Delivery Excellence (PDE) through discipline-level leadership, team coordination, technical quality, and project execution.

As a leader in an ESOP-driven organization, the Discipline Lead promotes an Employee Owner (EO) mindset at the team level and helps team members connect daily decisions to client outcomes, project performance, collaboration, and long-term firm value. This role provides a practical upward feedback loop to VP and senior leadership while championing OneHFA collaboration across project teams and disciplines.

Ideal candidate will be a licensed Fire Protection Engineer with a minimum of 10 years of experience. Candidate should have strong fire protection engineering and design experience and a background delivering fire sprinkler, fire alarm, life safety, and code-compliance solutions across commercial, industrial, retail, mixed-use, or multi-site project types. The candidate should be capable of mentoring designers and engineers, supporting client relationships, coordinating with interdisciplinary teams, and maintaining technical quality on projects of varying scale and complexity.

Qualifications

• Licensed Fire Protection Engineer
• Minimum of 10 years of experience
• Strong fire protection engineering and design experience
• Background in delivering fire sprinkler, fire alarm, life safety, and code-compliance solutions
• Experience across commercial, industrial, retail, mixed-use, or multi-site project types
• Capability to mentor designers and engineers
• Ability to support client relationships and coordinate with interdisciplinary teams
• Maintain technical quality on projects of varying scale and complexity

Requirements

• Management Requirements: 10+ staff or lead a Critical Business Function as defined by CEO/COO
• Education Requirements: Undergraduate Degree Preferred
• Licensure Requirements: Licensure Preferred

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