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Job Description
Supervise fire fighters who control and extinguish municipal fires, protect life and property, and conduct rescue efforts.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 33-1021.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Municipal Fire Fighting and Prevention Supervisors”.
Also Known As…
- Municipal Fire Fighting and Prevention Supervisors
- Training Officer
- Lieutenant Fire Fighter
- Fire Suppression Captain
- Fire Marshal
- Fire Lieutenant
- Fire Chief
- Fire Captain
- Fire Battalion Chief
- Battalion Fire Chief
- Shift Commander
- Sergeant
- Firefighter
- Fire Prevention Officer
- Fire Prevention Captain
- Fire Prevention Bureau Captain
- Fire Officer
- Fire Investigator
- Fire Fighter
- Fire Department Battalion Chief
- Deputy Fire Chief
- Chief of Operations
- Chief of Fire Prevention
- Battalion Chief
Tasks for “Shift Commander”
- Inspect and test new and existing fire protection systems, fire detection systems, and fire safety equipment to ensure that they are operating properly.
- Present and interpret fire prevention and fire code information to citizens' groups, organizations, contractors, engineers, and developers.
- Evaluate fire station procedures to ensure efficiency and enforcement of departmental regulations.
- Coordinate the distribution of fire prevention promotional materials.
- Maintain required maps and records.
- Direct investigation of cases of suspected arson, hazards, and false alarms and submit reports outlining findings.
- Assign firefighters to jobs at strategic locations to facilitate rescue of persons and maximize application of extinguishing agents.
- Recommend personnel actions related to disciplinary procedures, performance, leaves of absence, and grievances.
- Recommend to proper authorities possible fire code revisions, additions, and deletions.
- Compile and maintain records on personnel, accidents, equipment, and supplies.
- Oversee review of new building plans to ensure compliance with laws, ordinances, and administrative rules for public fire safety.
- Direct firefighters in station maintenance duties, and participate in these duties.
- Study and interpret fire safety codes to establish procedures for issuing permits to handle hazardous or flammable substances.
- Supervise and participate in the inspection of properties to ensure that they are in compliance with applicable fire codes, ordinances, laws, regulations, and standards.
- Perform maintenance and minor repairs on firefighting equipment, including vehicles, and write and submit proposals to modify, replace, and repair equipment.
- Document efforts taken to bring property owners into compliance with laws, codes, regulations, ordinances, and standards.
- Evaluate the performance of assigned firefighting personnel.
- Participate in creating fire safety guidelines and evacuation schemes for nonresidential buildings.
- Attend in-service training classes to remain current in knowledge of codes, laws, ordinances, and regulations.
- Conduct fire drills for building occupants and report on the outcomes of such drills.
- Provide emergency medical services as required, and perform light to heavy rescue functions at emergencies.
- Develop or review building fire exit plans.
- Identify corrective actions needed to bring properties into compliance with applicable fire codes and ordinances and conduct follow-up inspections to see if corrective actions have been taken.
- Direct the training of firefighters, assigning of instructors to training classes, and providing of supervisors with reports on training progress and status.
- Report and issue citations for fire code violations found during inspections, testifying in court about violations when required.
- Instruct and drill fire department personnel in assigned duties, including firefighting, medical care, hazardous materials response, fire prevention, and related subjects.
- Prepare activity reports listing fire call locations, actions taken, fire types and probable causes, damage estimates, and situation dispositions.
- Assess nature and extent of fire, condition of building, danger to adjacent buildings, and water supply status to determine crew or company requirements.
Related Technology & Tools
- Gas-powered generators
- Pulaski tools
- Personal computers
- Sledgehammers
- Pike poles
- Fire shelters
- Hazardous materials protective suits
- Surface thermometers
- Hand saws
- Ambu bags
- Ventilation saws
- Water rescue boats
- Air chisels
- Pinch bars
- HAZMAT response vehicles
- Listening devices
- Explosive detection robots
- Mobile data computers
- Chain saws
- Field emergency services neck braces
- Desktop computers
- Navigation compasses
- Backboards
- Fire axes
- Shovels
- Dry chemical fire extinguishers
- Electrocardiography EKG machines
- Infrared thermometers
- Lug wrenches
- Utility knives
- Two way radios
- Claw hammers
- McLeod tools
- Chemical protection footwear
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Evacuation stretchers
- Carbon dioxide CO2 fire extinguishers
- Air purifying respirators
- Oxygen cylinders
- Truck wheel chocks
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Multi-gas detectors
- Emergency suction kits
- Safety glasses
- Body harnesses
- Multipurpose fire extinguishers
- Smoke ejectors
- Automatic blood pressure cuffs
- Ladder trucks
- Aluminum ladders
- Extension ladders
- Hux bars
- Wrecking bars
- Fire resistant gloves
- Safety helmets
- Laryngoscopes
- Truck-mounted winches
- K-12 fire rescue saws
- Glucometers
- Aerial lifting apparatus
- Self-contained breathing apparatus
- Ceiling hooks
- Fire hoses
- Stokes baskets
- Life vests
- Fire engines
- Power saws
- Ventilation fans
- Search cameras
- Hydraulic extrication equipment
- Thermal imaging cameras
- Pulse oximeters
- Chemical protection gloves
- Self-rescue ropes
- Pry bars
- Life throw rings
- Bomb response vehicles
- Protective fire coats
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Halligan bars
- Hydrant shutoff wrenches
- Circular saws
- Laptop computers
- Air bag lifting systems
- Intravenous IV administration sets
- Bolt cutters
- Affiliated Computer Services ACS FIREHOUSE
- Web browser software
- IBM Lotus 1-2-3
- Geographic information system GIS software
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Email software
- BIO-key FireRMS
- Incident command system ICS software
- Plume modeling software
- Microsoft Excel
- Computer aided dispatch software
- Fire incident reporting systems