Senior Fire Protection Design Manager, Global Realty

2 days ago


Seattle WA United States Amazon Full time
Sr Fire Protection Design TPM, Global Realty - Engineering

Amazon is seeking an experienced Fire Protection Engineer to join our team as Senior Fire Protection Design Manager. This person will own the fire protection design, strategy, and initiatives for Amazon's Fulfillment Network across North America (NA) and Latin America (LATAM), and partner with global teams in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The Fire Protection Design Manager will report directly to the North American Global Realty Engineering Manager. This role will be located in office with expected occasional travel.


The Senior Fire Protection Design Manager will own the fire protection design, strategy, and initiatives while tracking key metrics and performance, function as consulting subject matter expert (SME) to stakeholders. They will build business cases and market building improvements, as well as work across the industry to understand trends and develop scalable technologies. The Senior Fire Protection Design Manager will be responsible for consulting, problem solving, and designing building level fire protection solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience developing solutions for hazardous materials, battery and battery storage systems, and other special hazards.


Key job responsibilities

The Fire Protection Design Manager will own the fire protection design, strategy, and initiatives across North America while tracking key metrics and performance, function as consulting SME to stakeholders, be able to build a business case and market building improvements, and work across the industry to understand trends and develop scalable technologies. The Fire Protection Design manager will also be responsible for consulting, solutioning, and designing building level fire protection solutions for internal partners that are running pilots, integrating emerging technologies, hazardous materials, battery and battery storage systems, and other special hazards.


A day in the life

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

  1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
  2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
  3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
  4. 401(k) Plan

About the team

Global Realty Engineering (GRE) is the single-threaded leader and owner for the Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Protection, Structural (MEPFS) engineering and Enterprise Building Management System (EBMS) standards for all Amazon operations building types. The team also drives sustainability partnerships and is the global leader for third party commissioning standards. The team provides subject matter expertise and design leadership across all regions, businesses, and functions to deliver scalable platform engineering, program development, program management, retrofit project management, template design criteria, and template standards.


Minimum Qualifications
  • Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules
  • 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
  • 5+ years experience working in Fire Protection Engineering and/or Design.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar
  • 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
  • Experience in fire modeling, egress modeling, and smoke control systems, and the development of performance-based designs.
  • Competent in NFPA30 designs with experience in the design and protection of storage rooms and buildings for hazardous materials.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit


Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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