Fire Protection Discipline Lead

Role Overview
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 yrs 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.

Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Vision Execution
• Executes and adopts firm Vision, strategies, and objectives within the discipline.
• Translates discipline priorities into clear team expectations, technical standards, and project-level actions that support PDE.
• Monitors and reports discipline needs, delivery challenges, staffing considerations, and improvement opportunities to VP and senior leadership.
• Maintains clear vertical and horizontal communication with project teams, Team Leads, Senior Team Leads, peer discipline leaders, and VP leadership.

Culture, Collaboration & OneHFA Leadership
• Champions culture among the team and models shared values through daily leadership and project execution.
• Champions and leads multi-discipline collaboration at the team level to support a OneHFA approach.
• Works closely with architects, engineers, project managers, and other disciplines to coordinate fire protection scope, resolve conflicts, and improve delivery outcomes.
• Provides a practical feedback loop to senior leadership regarding team needs, coordination barriers, and opportunities to strengthen collaboration.
• Promotes development paths for Team Leads, designers, and engineers.

ESOP & Ownership Culture Leadership
• Promotes an Employee Owner (EO) mindset at the discipline level.
• Models ownership behaviors through accountability, proactive communication, sound judgment, and thoughtful stewardship of project resources.
• Helps team members understand how technical decisions, quality, coordination, and client service contribute to shared success.

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