fire prevention and protection engineer
ISCO: 2149. Skills: 41. Essential: 15.
Essential skills
- adjust engineering designs
- approve engineering design
- conduct fire tests
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- environmental legislation
- fire prevention procedures
- fire protection engineering
- fire safety regulations
- fire-fighting systems
- operate fire extinguishers
- perform scientific research
- prevent fire in a performance environment
- safety engineering
- technical drawings
Supporting skills
- act as contact person during equipment incident
- advise architects
- advise on construction materials
- advise on safety improvements
- chemistry
- civil engineering
- computer simulation
- conduct fire safety inspections
- contain fires
- design principles
- determine fire risks
- develop material testing procedures
- draft design specifications
- educate public on fire safety
- install firestops
- organise fire station
- perform first fire intervention
- perform laboratory tests
- physics
- prevent fires on board
- properties of textile materials
- record test data
- teach fire fighting principles
- test safety strategies
- thermodynamics
- use different types of fire extinguishers