Fire Suppression Applications Specialist

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Full Time Ashland, MA, US

Salary Range: $80,000.00 To $ Annually

Kidde Fenwal

At Kidde Fenwal, our purpose is to protect lives, livelihoods, and iconic assets through innovative fire protection, detection, and safety control solutions.

Our trusted brands—Kidde Fire Systems, Kidde Fire Protection, and Fenwal Controls—serve industrial, commercial, marine, mission-critical, and other specialized applications. With operations across the United States, United Kingdom, and India, we support customers around the world with highly engineered, certified solutions.

We are committed to integrity, safety, accountability, collaboration, innovation, excellence, and continuous improvement.

The Applications Specialist supports the design and application of Kidde Fire Systems products for commercial, industrial, mission-critical, and special-hazard applications. The role works directly with distributors, consulting engineers, Sales, Engineering, Product Management, Customer Service, and Technical Support. We are seeking an engineer with a strong technical foundation who can contribute to core design activities while developing deeper expertise in special-hazard fire suppression systems.

The position emphasizes timely, accurate engineering support, clear communication, and ownership of incoming applications requests.

• Review customer specifications, drawings, and project requirements to determine appropriate Kidde Fire Systems solutions.
• Develop engineered and pre-engineered fire suppression system designs in accordance with Kidde design manuals, applicable codes and standards, and product listings/approvals.
• Prepare and review system calculations, equipment selections, Bills of Material (BOMs), and supporting technical documentation for distributor and customer applications.
• Perform flow calculations and system sizing and create or revise AutoCAD/Revit drawings, including layouts, piping drawings, isometrics, P&IDs, and equipment arrangements.
• Review customer drawings and calculations and provide clear technical comments and recommendations.
• Research technical questions and independently gather information from internal and external sources.
• Provide applications and product support to distributors, Regional Sales Managers, consulting engineers, contractors, and other internal and external customers.
• Support quotation and estimating activities by identifying equipment, design requirements, assumptions, and technical risks.
• Own and manage multiple incoming applications requests from intake through completion, communicating status, priorities, technical questions, and expected delivery dates to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Sales, Engineering, Product Management, Customer Service, and Technical Support to resolve project-specific technical issues.
• Support engineering standards, technical documentation, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, customer training, and occasional field/site activities.
• Participate in technical training and mentorship to build expertise in Kidde fire suppression technologies and progressively take on more complex engineering applications.
• Travel occasionally to support distributor training, customer meetings, and pre-design site visits.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical discipline; an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• 2+ years of engineering, applications engineering, system design, consulting engineering, or related…