Project Engineer

Spectrum Safety Solutions

With approximately 1,500 employees operating in more than 20 countries, Spectrum Safety Solutions is a global leader in fire detection and suppression solutions for high-hazard applications across verticals such as critical infrastructure, oil and gas, marine and clean energy. Our global team leverages strong customer relationships across four recognized brands, Det-Tronics, Marioff, Autronica, and Fireye, to deliver differentiated lifecycle solutions and advance growth across key segments. Carved out from Carrier’s Fire & Security business in July 2024, Spectrum Safety Solutions is now a privately-held company under the ownership of Sentinel Capital Partners.

Det-Tronics

We make the world a better place to live! At Spectrum’s Det-Tronics, we build and maintain comfortable, accessible, efficient, healthy, safe, secure, and sustainable environments. Det-Tronics is a $180M technologically innovative, projects-based global brand protecting customers in many challenging environments with high end flame and gas detection products and systems. Det-Tronics is a part of Spectrum Safety Solutions and has a global footprint with manufacturing sites in the U.S. and sales presence in all key geographies.

Det-Tronics is looking for a highly skilled Fire & Gas Systems Project Engineer. In this role you will be responsible for all technical aspects of your assigned projects from initiation to final customer checkout, shipment and start up support. Code compliance to NFPA72, Life Safety code NFPA 101 and NEC are some of the likely challenges you will be faced with.

Responsibilities

• Review hardware and software requirements proposed to meet specifications prior to and after an Order is received.
• Recommend action to Project Manager if discrepancies are noted. Provide guidance and direction to the project team to achieve customer expectations, project cost, schedule and technical goals.
• Represent the Systems Engineering department at a customer kickoff meeting and design review meetings.
• Plan work to conform to schedule, and determine tasks which can be given to support staff or other technical personnel assigned to the project. Delegate such task and oversee their execution.
• Resolve technical problems with customer as quickly as possible during execution of work. Determine when changes result in an adjustment to contract price, a change in specified equipment, or other significant change in scope.
• Develop and maintain the Fire & Gas System Documentation package (Shop Drawings) including equipment layout drawings, panel mechanical assembly drawings, electrical connection diagrams, system I/O wiring and programmable system configuration documents as required by the project.
• Develop and maintain the detailed bills of material needed to procure, manufacture and properly document the system assemblies used to fulfil the project requirements.
• Provide necessary documentation to software engineering as scheduled to initiate programming.
• Responsible for final internal checkout of system, certifying correctness of performance of the system along with test reports. Notify Manager of Projects when this is done.
• Host and conduct client acceptance testing at the factory as needed.
  
  

Other Job Functions

• Help create and maintain an AutoCAD standards library for your use throughout the Project Engineering department.
• Support proposals in specifying equipment needs to satisfy project specifications.
  
  

Educational Requirements

• BSEE degree or at least five years’ experience in fire alarm system design. Additional experience in the controls field using Fire Alarm control Panels, PLC’s, Safety Systems, Petrochemical or Munitions experience is preferred.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• NICET Level III in Fire Alarm Systems preferred, Level 1 minimum.
• Proficient with the use of AutoCAD or similar drawing package with experience in producing shop drawings. Experience with AutoCAD Electrical is preferred.
• Experience with JDE or another SAP or ERP system for parts, BoM’s and other project maintenance.
• Requires good team participation, planning, organizational, time management and communications skills. Ability to work quickly and accurately and handle multiple projects.
• Experience with Detector Electronics Corporation products and system integration practices or related industry considered a plus.