What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fire Suppression Applications Specialist position at Kidde-Fenwal LLC?
Fire Suppression Applications Specialist
KiddeFenwal
At KiddeFenwal, 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.
Specific responsibilities for this position include:
- 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.
Required Experience:
- 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 technical experience; 2–5 years preferred.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, technical manuals, and project documentation.
- Experience with AutoCAD or similar engineering/design software.
- Working knowledge of engineering calculations and mechanical principles such as pressure, flow, piping, and system sizing.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to organize and prioritize multiple requests, take ownership of assigned deliverables, communicate progress proactively, and work independently and collaboratively.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with one or more special-hazard fire suppression technologies such as clean agent, inert gas, carbon dioxide, dry chemical, or wet chemical.
- Familiarity with applicable NFPA standards, including NFPA 12, 17, 17A, 72, 101, and/or 2001.
- Experience with hydraulic or flow-calculation software, Revit, and/or BIM coordination.
- Experience preparing BOMs, quotations, estimates, technical submittals, or reviewing fire suppression drawings and calculations.
- Familiarity with UL/FM product listings or relevant professional credentials such as NICET, EIT, or PE track is beneficial.
- Experience supporting distributors or customers with technical questions and application-specific problem-solving.
- Working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, Projects, Power Point, etc) applications.
- Interest in developing expertise in special-hazard fire suppression applications within a collaborative engineering team.
Salary : $80,000 - $100,000