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Fire Protection Specialist (Facilities Infrastructure)

SpaceX· Facilities Infrastructure Ops - Cape
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Cape Canaveral, FLFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Designs, maintains, inspects, commissions, and troubleshoots fire and life safety systems across assigned sites, combining in-house fire protection design with hands-on field work including inspection, testing, maintenance, contractor oversight, and commissioning of alarm, detection, and water or gas-based suppression systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design fire alarm, detection, and water or gas-based suppression systems for new construction, renovations, and occupancy or process changes, including layouts, calculations, specifications, and design packages for internal review and AHJ submittals
  • Manage operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of fire alarm and suppression systems
  • Plan and execute inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire/life-safety systems (alarms, water-based sprinkler/suppression, gas-based/clean-agent systems, extinguishers) and drive deficiencies to closure
  • Lead commissioning of fire/life-safety projects from planning through functional and acceptance testing, AHJ witness, and turnover (as-builts, programming, training, and spare parts)
  • Provide oversight of fire protection contractors and related construction, including submittal review, field quality, impairments, and punchlist
  • Coordinate with facilities trades, operations, environmental health and safety (EHS), contractors, and authorities having jurisdiction on installations, upgrades, certifications, and code interpretations
  • Maintain drawings, device lists, calculations, inspection records, permits, and corrective-action logs in an audit-ready state through post-commissioning monitoring
  • Verify assigned buildings and modifications remain compliant with adopted building and fire codes and that installed systems operate as designed
  • Support fire hazard and risk review of materials, processes, storage, and layout changes that affect protection or egress
  • Manage impairments, fire watches, and restoration of protection with documented control of risk

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalency certificate
  • 2+ years of experience in the design of fire protection systems, including field installation, inspection, testing, and/or commissioning

Skills

Required:Fire protection system designInspection and testingCommissioning
Nice to have:Contractor oversightCode compliance
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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