Security Systems Designer II in Salt Lake City, Utah at Harris Companies

Pre-Design Drawings/Development:

• Confer with engineering, marketing, production, or sales departments, or with customers, to establish and evaluate design concepts, designs, and operational plans.

• Meet with customers, project teams, specialists, and stakeholders to confirm security system intent, owner standards, access control requirements, camera coverage, alarm points, fire/life-safety interfaces, network needs, and project scope before design development.

Design Drawings/Development:

• Produce electrical, electronic, or mechanical drawings, sketches, blueprints, and/or engineering instructions for assembly, or other related documents or graphics necessary for security design.

• Translate security drawings into design specifications

• Examine project plans, specifications, door schedules, reflected ceiling plans, network standards, estimates, take-off sheets, and owner requirements to design effective and coordinated security systems.

Responding to Changes in Scope:

• Consult with engineers to ensure that security equipment or systems meet design specifications.

• Maintains close contact with system specialist personnel and, depending on location, respond to material needs as they arise.

• Modify, refine, or update designs to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, I/O on controller, or changes in design trends as needed.

• Update device layouts, risers, point lists, camera schedules, access control point lists, intrusion zone lists, and security system design documents based on field changes and approved scope revisions.

• Stay current with security system technology, networked devices, video platforms, access control panels, intrusion systems, fire/life-safety interfaces, licensing, cabling, power, and integration requirements.

Choosing Parts for Security Systems:

• Research security equipment and related component needs, sources, competitive prices, delivery times, licensing requirements, compatibility, and ongoing operational costs.

• Select access control, CCTV/video surveillance, intrusion detection, fire interface, network, power, cabling, and field device components that meet project specifications and functional requirements.

• May prepare material lists, coordinate substitutions, confirm product compatibility, and submit purchase requests for outside material.

Customer Service and Coordination:

• Present designs, submittals, reports, device layouts, and system concepts to customers, engineers, project teams, and other stakeholders for review and approval.

• Independently and proactively resolves conflicts, questions, and coordination gaps involving doors, power, network, pathways, fire/life-safety interfaces, ceiling conditions, device locations, and owner standards before final system designs are issued.

• May respond to Requests for Information (RFIs), support design clarifications, and help customers or engineers understand security system functionality, limitations, and project impacts.

Documentation:

• Prepares completed job documentation, including submittals, device schedules, risers, bill of materials, cable schedules, installation details, programming requirements, commissioning documents, and closeout documents that meet contract requirements.

• Generate security system input/output summaries, door hardware coordination notes, camera schedules, access control point lists, intrusion zone lists, and related design records.

• Document changes in material, equipment, device locations, network requirements, system configuration, and field conditions.

• Interpret change order requests and take necessary design action to support project completion, accurate pricing, and final documentation.

Training:

• Instruct individuals on how to properly and efficiently operate technical tools and equipment.

• Help individuals understand how to affectively implement ideas.

• Guide individuals through the work day to assist with any needed tasks.

• Suggest new ways of doing or thinking about tasks to improve efficiency and/or quality of work.