JOB SUMMARY:
Under the executive direction of the Town Manager, administers plans, supervises, and manages the activities of the Fire Department. Responsible for fire protection, emergency medical services, rescue, hazardous materials, and disaster management. Responsible for the supervision of subordinate staff as it relates to all the above. Provides highly responsible, complex administrative support to Town management staff and the Town Council.  Performs related duties as assigned.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Works independently with considerable latitude for discretion and judgment under the broad guidance and general supervision of the Town Manager.  Work is reviewed through conferences and reports relating to goals, objectives, and accomplishments to the Town Manager on service delivery and planning.

SUPERVISION:
Exercises supervision over the entire departmental staff, either directly or through division supervisors. Supervision is primarily through the Battalion Chiefs and is disseminated down the levels of command. Direct supervision is exercised with department members as necessary.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:          
Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include any of the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics.  This is not a comprehensive list; it provides a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities.  Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties listed, and may be required to perform additional, position-specific tasks.

• Provides effective, professional leadership, positioning the Fire Department to meet the community’s current and future needs through appropriate technologies and services.  Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamlining work processes, while working cooperatively and collaboratively to provide quality seamless customer service.

• Develops, administers, and monitors the department budget, controlling expenses and forecasting future needs.  Ensures necessary state-of-the-art operational resources are in place to meet the department’s mission; oversees the purchase, maintenance, and inventory control of all fire department facilities, apparatus, tools, and equipment.

• Develops and implements mutual aid and automatic aid response agreements, standard training and operating guidelines, and consolidated prevention, public education, fire cause investigation, and emergency response protocols.

• Develop presentations for interaction with people of all ages and backgrounds. Responds to emergency calls for assistance and provides fire protection, emergency medical treatment, rescue, and hazardous materials incident mitigation.

• Maintains positive relations through continuous dialogue with civic, community, and neighborhood groups, and community leaders; serves as director of emergency management for the town; as a member of the Town’s top management team, assists in addressing town concerns.

• Develops standard operating guidelines; plans, organizes, directs, and controls emergency scene activities; provides strategic and tactical direction; coordinates emergency personnel and resource activities during an emergency event to minimize its destructive impact on life, limb, and property.

• Plans and supervises the enforcement of the fire prevention laws, such as safety regulations for public assemblies, programs for fire safety education of the public, the handling and storage of combustibles, the use of flammable liquids and explosives, and other hazardous materials.

• Initiates and advises on the development of fire code ordinances and regulations; reviews and authorizes Fire Marshal code review and compliance activities.  Resolves disagreements between the Fire Marshal and developers, builders, and property owners.

• Reviews and participates as necessary in public fire and life safety education activities; maintains positive relations through continuous dialogue with civic/community/neighborhood groups and community leaders; develops presentations for interaction with people of all ages and backgrounds

• Coordinates and oversees the establishment and accomplishment of organizational, departmental, and work group goals and objectives.  Supervises the enforcement and adherence to policies, procedures, rules, and regulations for effective and efficient operation of department functions.

• Develops department rules and regulations; provides leadership, guidance, and direction; selects, trains, coaches, guides, and motivates personnel and volunteer staff; works with employees to correct deficiencies; makes decisions on promotions, demotions, and disciplinary action. Reviews personnel performance evaluations.

• Provides professional development to subordinates through training, coaching, mentoring, and counseling. Ensures certifications and professional performance standards are met. Resolves personnel problems and ensures effective interpersonal and organizational communication; monitors coordination of work schedules; establishes a vision for the Department to ensure the ongoing development of long-range goals and objectives.

• Attends meetings and serves on committees, boards, and agencies related to promoting fire prevention, improving fire suppression, and emergency medical services; keeps abreast of new developments in the field; facilitates departmental management/association meetings; attends community and neighborhood meetings to explain activities and functions of the Fire Department and establish favorable public relations. 

• Appears before the public and news media, as appropriate, to explain emergency response operations or activities.

• Performs all other related duties, as assigned.

Education and Experience Required:
Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration, fire science, or closely related field, a Master’s degree and/or Certified Fire Officer/Executive Fire Officer certification is preferred; plus ten (10) years of experience with five (5) years of increasing responsibility in a command and/or supervisory role in an organized fire department, including experience in managerial and administrative work key emphases on understanding and developing a departmental budget; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Required:

• Must have and maintain a valid Arizona Driver’s License.

Preferred:

• National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Certification
• Hazardous Materials First Responder Certification (40-hours).

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place, and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy. 
• Ability to represent the Town effectively in a variety of settings with diverse community members.
• Ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership; to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.
• Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include the ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include the ability to compute discount, interest, profit and loss, ratio and proportion; may include the ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.
• Strong ability to supervise, lead, and direct the staff and functions of the Fire Department.
  • Knowledge of highly complex principles and practices of municipal government administration, including departments, organization, economic development, public relations, and information functions and services of a municipal government. 
  • Knowledge of principles and practices of effective municipal fire administration, prevention, and suppression activities, including emergency medical services.
  • Ability to quickly learn the geography of the Town of Florence and surrounding areas, including the street system, hydrant locations, the layout and location of public utilities, and potentially hazardous materials or substances.
  • Must have a high level of interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential situations.  Must be able to maintain a calm, non-defensive attitude. 

Computer Skills:
Required:

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Microsoft Outlook

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.  The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, stoop, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms. Employees may be required to carry, push/pull objects and materials up to 150 pounds. 

Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, the ability to adjust focus, and manual dexterity with hand-eye coordination.

Employees may be exposed to climatic outdoor weather conditions during work activity.  The town has multiple work sites, and individuals will be required to drive between them.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this job.  They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.  Other functions may be assigned, and management retains the right to add or change the duties at any time.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this job.  They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.  Other functions may be assigned, and management retains the right to add or change the duties at any time.