Fire Protection Engineer Jobs in Markham, Ontario, Canada
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Markham, Ontario, Canada
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The built environment shapes how communities live, work, and interact. Our Buildings practice brings together multidisciplinary expertise to design safe, resilient, and high-performance environments across Canada and internationally.
We are seeking a Senior Fire Protection Engineer to join our national fire protection engineering team. In this role, you will plan, design, and deliver complex fire protection systems for institutional, commercial, industrial, and infrastructure projects, working closely with multidisciplinary teams across Canada. You will also contribute to the technical direction of projects, mentor junior staff, and support the continued development of our fire protection practice.
This position may be based in either of our Toronto or Markham offices and offers a hybrid work environment combining office collaboration, remote work, and site visits.
Your Key Responsibilities
Engineering and Technical Design
- Lead the design and development of fire protection systems for building projects, ensuring safety, code compliance, and system performance.
- Perform hydraulic calculations, fire hydrant flow analysis, and system sizing in accordance with NFPA standards and Canadian codes.
- Prepare and review engineering drawings, specifications, technical reports, and presentations using BIM, CAD, and related design tools.
- Conduct fire and life safety code analyses and provide technical guidance to project teams and clients.
- Apply advanced engineering judgment to resolve complex technical challenges where precedent is limited.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of fire protection engineering standards, design guidelines, and technical practices.
Project Delivery
- Participate in all phases of project delivery, including concept development, detailed design, construction documentation, and construction administration.
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary project teams, including mechanical, electrical, structural, and architectural professionals.
- Lead or participate in project coordination meetings with internal teams, clients, contractors, consultants, and sub-contractors.
- Ensure project deliverables meet scope, schedule, budget, quality, and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct field investigations, construction site visits, inspections, and data collection to verify installation quality and design compliance.
Team Development and Collaboration
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers, designers, and technicians.
- Supervise assigned staff and develop their skills to strengthen technical capacity and support project delivery.
- Collaborate with regional and national teams to share technical knowledge and maintain consistency in fire protection engineering practices.
Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement
- Conduct quality assurance and quality control reviews on fire protection system projects.
- Stay informed of emerging technologies, design approaches, and industry developments.
Business Development Support
- Support proposal preparation, project scoping, and technical documentation for client submissions.
- Participate in client meetings, presentations, and interviews as required.
- Contribute to identifying and pursuing new project opportunities
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
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About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.
We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.