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Since 1939, we have been at the leading edge of safety, security and risk-based engineering and consulting, serving the most complex global projects. In addition, we pride ourselves on driving code and standard development and adoption throughout the world and across industries. We planted our roots with a commitment to earning your trust and protecting lives, property and reputation. Today, we continue to work at the forefront of the professional services industry in safety, security and risk-based science, engineering and consulting. Our Company Purpose + Principles honor our past while looking to the future. The range of services we provide are how we achieve our Purpose: to make our world safe, secure and resilient. This Purpose and commitments within each of four Principles (People, Industry, Clients, Performance) reflect our company culture and how we serve our clients within the world we work and live today.
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JENSEN HUGHES is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our dynamic team in the Research and Development, Forensic, and Investigative Testing Laboratory located in our Baltimore, MD fire office. The ideal candidate will have a strong background and interest in construction; including welding, fabrication, and light machining, as well as instrumentation, to support the setup and execution of lab testing experiments. This role requires basic fire-fighting skills and a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of lab safety and equipment operation.
Jensen Hughes has exciting career opportunities available for Associate Fire Protection Engineers in both Houston and Allen,Texas.
Winter 2023 and Spring 2024 graduates are welcome to apply and join our global team of 1,500+ engineers, scientists and consultants who are among the very best in the industry. We continue to build on our heritage of making the world a safer place. We have served on more than 150 committees for international codes and standards to help drive adoption throughout the world. With tens of thousands of projects under our belts, we have the expertise needed to help with any challenge you may face.
Working with us offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team that always strives to do the right thing for our people, clients, and communities.
You will be given early responsibility and the opportunity to progress rapidly. Jensen Hughes encourage all Engineers to achieve professional licensed status and we offer help and support during the process.
Jensen Hughes has an opportunity for an Office Administrator in a lively, dynamic corporate environment, providing key administrative support for the South Region of Jensen Hughes North America. Onsite responsibilities will be in the Baltimore office. Other offices in the South Region will be supported remotely in collaboration with the region's team of Office Administrators.
Jensen Hughes has an opportunity for an American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) / Building Code Accessibility Consultant for the physical built environment. Hybrid and flexible work options are available; however, the preference is for someone located in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area. This newly created position is an excellent career opportunity for mid to senior level candidate to bring their accessibility expertise and consulting passion to a multi-disciplined engineering team. Experienced Accessibility Consultants, Engineers, and Architects are encouraged to apply.
JENSEN HUGHES has a hybrid job opportunity for a Senior Fire Protection Engineer with experience in life safety code consulting, sprinkler systems, fire detection and alarm systems, and passive fire protection. The ideal candidate must have a strong background in the application of National Fire Protection Associates (NFPA) codes and standards, as well as Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC). Experience with performance-based fire engineering design is also a benefit. The applicant must be able to collaborate with a team of Fire Protection Engineers with diverse backgrounds and experience levels. The successful candidate will provide full-time engineering and technical support at a high-profile government location in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, while possibly being able to work a hybrid schedule. This is an exciting opportunity to gain fire protection experience and knowledge in a wide range of fire suppression, fire alarm, and life safety systems and approaches, in a unique and challenging setting.
Jensen Hughes has an early career opportunity for an Associate Fire Protection Engineer in our San Diego office location. This position is open to recent grads or experienced early career Engineers with strong interest or experience in fire protection engineering.
Jensen Hughes is looking to hire college students for internships within our Fire Protection Engineering department at our Mid-Atlantic offices (Baltimore, MD and Rockville, MD). We are a leading fire protection consulting firm providing a range of professional services involving life safety, fire protection, security and mass notification on commercial, institutional, and industrial projects for clients worldwide.
Jensen Hughes has an exciting career opportunity for Associate Fire Protection Engineers in our Mid-Atlantic Offices (Baltimore, MD or Rockville, MD). Winter 2023 and Spring 2024 graduates are welcome to apply and join our global team of 1,400 engineers, scientists and consultants are among the very best in the industry and we continue to build on our heritage of making the world a safer place. We have served on more than 150 committees for international codes and standards making organization and help drive adoption throughout the world. With tens of thousands of projects under our belts, we have the expertise needed to help with any challenge you may face.
Jensen Hughes is seeking an ambitious, results-oriented, self-starter with a positive attitude and a collaborative mentality to join our legal team as a Senior Corporate Counsel. The role reports to our General Counsel and is a highly visible position with the opportunity to grow and develop global business strategies while providing high-quality legal support to our engineers, consultants and analysts that serve our clients in making our world safe, secure and resilient. This position is remote and may be located anywhere within the United States.
JENSEN HUGHES has an exciting career opportunity for an Fire Protection Engineer located in one of our Texas offices in Austin, Allen, or Houston. This newly created position is an excellent career opportunity for an experienced candidate. In this role, you will provide fire protection consulting services on a client site. You will play a leading role in engaging a team of engineers and specialty consultants in collaborating with building owners, developers, architects, engineers, contractors, and clients on a variety of projects
Jensen Hughes is seeking a Hazardous Materials Code Consultant to join our Mid-Atlantic Team with offices in Maryland and Virginia. We are open to other locations and remote work for candidates with demonstrated experience and capability. A successful candidate will demonstrate ability to perform or direct engineering consulting services pertaining to hazardous materials use and storage. We are seeking applications from candidates at the mid-level or senior-level career stage. This market segment is a key growth area for our company and offers opportunities for increasing industry engagement, business development and mentorship of emerging professionals.
Jensen Hughes is seeking mid and senior career engineers with Advanced Nuclear experience or licensing experience to support regulatory and risk-based client needs. The project team is located in West Chester, PA but remote work options may be available for the right candidate. Our team provides consulting to the nuclear industry and serves customers located throughout the world. We perform specialty technical services in a wide variety of engineering projects, which range from day-to-day nuclear power plant operation to cutting edge research and development in all areas related to plant safety.
Jensen Hughes is seeking early career engineers with Nuclear consulting experience in Syracuse, NY, West Chester, PA or Chicago, IL areas. Winter 2023 and Spring 2024 graduates are welcome to apply and learn Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Engineering. Our team provides safety and reliability consulting to the nuclear industry and serves customers located throughout North America. We perform specialty technical services in a wide variety of engineering projects, which range from day-to-day nuclear power plant operation to cutting edge research and development in all areas related to plant safety
Jensen Hughes has an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Fire Protection Engineer/Consultant to add to our growing Northeast (PA, NJ, NY, CT, MA, RI, NH, VT, ME) team. We are open to this individual reporting to any of our Northeast office locations or a remote work location utilizing our flexible remote policy for qualified applicants. Jensen Hughes offers competitive benefits, compensation and 401k.
Morris Goding Access Consulting (MGAC) is an unrivalled team of accessibility and Universal Design experts who have national and international expertise. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Wollongong, our work has been instrumental in delivering projects and designs throughout Australia and around the world. We work with you to find pragmatic solutions that benefit the building, project and your community.
MGAC has a culture that is focused on delivering exceptional design outcomes and advice across every stage of a building project. Recently, MGAC joined the Jensen Hughes group, a global leading fire and safety engineering firm with over 1400 employees operating in over 90 countries.
This union further enhances MGAC’s ability to use international knowledge to ensure all project reflect the latest approaches to accessibility. Nick and David have for 25 years ensured the value of our people and the work they produce are complimented with a lifestyle outside work hours.
Jensen Hughes has an exciting job opportunity for a Senior Director, Business Development for our Pacific Northwest Region. The Senior Director, Business Development will partner with Operations and other Business Development leaders throughout the company to drive new orders and proposals for professional consulting services including life safety, fire protection, forensics and security across major markets. The successful candidate will be a confident sales leader, with a client focused service-oriented attitude, both internally and externally and must live in Washington or Oregon, preferably near our offices in the Seattle or Portland area.
Jensen Hughes, a worldwide Consulting, Engineering and Compliance firm is looking for a motivated and well-spoken inside sales representative to join our global Fire and Life Safety team in our Burnaby, BC office location and cover Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. The candidate will be responsible for Identifying and developing new leads/opportunities, communicating with clients, understanding their needs, connecting those needs to our services, and ensuring a smooth sales process. This candidate is expected to be able to retain long term relationship clients while expanding services, close sales, and meet sales targets.
Our goal is to hire a candidate that is eager to expand our Fire and Life Safety service lines through existing clients, with new sales, and identify additional opportunities for global company wide growth. The candidate will make use of skills in communication and sales to highlight the advantages of our services in the existing market/s.
This will be a full time salaried position.
Jensen Hughes has exciting career opportunities available for Senior and Principal Electrical Engineers across the United States. Please refer to our full list of office locations here. The ideal candidate will have experience and knowledge in areas pertaining to electrical failures, incidents and accidents, with a strong focus on Fire Investigation. You will join a multi-discipline team of forensic experts and professional consultants.
Jensen Hughes has exciting career opportunities available for Senior Civil/Structural Engineers across our office locations throughout the United States. Please refer to our full list of office locations here. The ideal candidate will be a licensed Civil/Structural Engineer with a background in forensics, design, and construction.
We have a great opportunity for a Senior Polymer Engineer and Project Manager to join us in our Mountlake Terrace, WA office. This newly created position is an excellent career opportunity for an experienced candidate. This is not a remote position. Relocation assistance will be provided.
Forensic engineering is a fast-paced, dynamic and fascinating industry. The Jensen Hughes Forensics Division is a forensics engineering/consulting industry leader in fire and explosion investigations, construction defect lawsuits, piping failures, industrial failures, plumbing and HVAC failures, equipment failures, and large losses in general. Jensen Hughes has a state-of-the-art Materials Forensics laboratory in Mountlake Terrace, WA. The successful candidate is comfortable in a laboratory, in a courtroom, and on a failure scene. This individual will work within, and often lead, multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and architects consulting on a wide variety of materials science issues mostly focused on failure analysis.
Some of what we offer:
- Our business development team is dedicated to forensic and fire investigation and provides support by connecting you with clients who are looking to hire true professionals in the field of fire investigation.
- Our worldwide footprint provides opportunities across the globe.
- We have personnel to perform fire modeling.
- We have a dust explosion lab in Halifax, Canada.
- We have a full metallurgical laboratory with an SEM/EDS that can analyze any metal found in a fire.
- We have a plastics and materials testing laboratory that that can identify plastic materials involved in a fire and can determine many of the physical properties of these plastics,
- We have a full forensics chemistry laboratory that performs analysis of fire debris for ignitable liquids and liquids capable of spontaneous combustion. Laboratory technicians are available to provide direct support to the fire investigator in the best methods to collect forensic samples.
- We have voting and alternate members on NFPA 921 Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations and NFPA 1033 Qualifications for Fire Investigators.
- Our experienced in-house legal team can help you prepare for trials and depositions.
- Our dedicated evidence collection and handling teams will support you to assure that the collection of evidence is properly gathered, retained and tracked from the field.
- You will receive on-the-job training from professionals with over 200 years of collective experience in fire investigation.
- You will be eligible for a quarterly bonus program.