AI-driven scheduling assistant
Benefits
Rob Cherrie brings extensive fire service experience, having joined CDDFRS in 2010 after beginning his career in Northumberland in 2001. He has delivered major organizational improvements including the Service's first Community Risk Profile, nationally recognized firefighter apprenticeship program, and AI-driven scheduling assistant.
Details
- Tool name
- AI-driven scheduling assistant
- Organisation
- County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Machine Learning
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Machine Learning
- Usecase
- Workflow Automation
- Origin
- ddfire.gov.uk
- Owning team
- County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service
- Date added
- Scrape date
- 17/06/2026
- Source note
- Rob Cherrie has been appointed as Deputy Chief Fire Officer. He has held senior leadership roles across Training, Community Risk Management, Workforce Development and Emergency Response. He implemented an AI-driven scheduling assistant that aligns firefighter productivity to risk. [Source]