Fire & Life Safety Reviewer (Remote, US)
Listing checked September 15, 2026 · pay as published by Mercor
Overview
Vulcan, a project at Mercor, builds evaluation tasks for the construction and property field. You work from real drawings, documents, and site photos to create review deliverables that mirror the job: an egress analysis, a correction list, or a plan review decision. You write both the task and its correct answer, then another reviewer in your discipline checks it before release. The work is remote and open to US-based fire and life safety professionals.
What You'll Do8
- 1Build evaluation tasks from actual fire and life safety drawings, documents, and site photos.
- 2Author correct answers for egress and life safety plan checks, fire access reviews, and plan review decisions.
- 3Create scenarios that reflect fire alarm review from the design engineer seat and the fire marshal seat.
- 4Cover sprinkler review from the engineer, fire marshal, and property insurer perspectives.
- 5Add cases for hazardous materials control area review, fire occupancy video inspection, and firestop penetration photo checks.
- 6Include fire system inspection, testing, and maintenance report review tasks.
- 7Mark up plan sets and interpret hydraulic calculations and device layouts to support each task.
- 8Align task content with IBC, IFC, and relevant NFPA standards.
Requirements6
- 1Hold or have held a seat that reviews fire and life safety design: fire marshal, fire prevention plan reviewer, fire protection engineer, or sprinkler and fire alarm designer-reviewer.
- 2Possess a fire marshal appointment, NICET Level III or higher, or a PE in fire protection.
- 3Bring at least 3 years in that review seat, with 8 or more years preferred.
- 4Work from a US base and apply IBC, IFC, and NFPA standards in practice.
- 5Mark up plan sets and read hydraulic calculations and device layouts.
- 6Show comfort with fire alarm and sprinkler design review from multiple seats.
Who Should Apply
Your background fits if you have spent years in a plan review or fire protection engineering seat and can read a plan set, hydraulic calculations, and device layouts without help. The strongest candidates hold a fire marshal appointment, NICET III+, or a PE in fire protection, and they know how IBC, IFC, and NFPA editions shape a review. People who trained junior inspectors, wrote correction language or an SOP, ran acceptance testing, or tracked changes across NFPA editions tend to do well. This role is not suited to firefighters or fire officers without plan review or inspection duty, sprinkler installers without design or review work, alarm technicians who service systems rather than design them, or general safety and OSHA specialists. Applicants often score low when they list field experience but cannot show direct plan review decisions, or when they cite standards without explaining which occupant load, travel distance, or coverage gap matters.
Salary Insight
The listing posts $45 to $60 per hour, with pay set by experience and a stated path to raise your rate as the project scales. That range lines up with senior contract work for fire protection engineers and plan reviewers who hold a PE, fire marshal appointment, or NICET III+ and several years in the seat.
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Application Tip
Lead with the review seat you held, not a general safety title. Name the standards you apply, such as IBC, IFC, and NFPA 1, 13, 72, or 101, and give one concrete example of a plan review decision you made, including the occupant load, travel distance, or coverage gap you caught. Mention any NICET level, PE license, fire marshal appointment, and the number of years spent marking up plan sets or reading hydraulic calculations.
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