Deputy Commissioner (SES4H) Queensland Fire and Rescue

Queensland Fire & Emergency Services - Albion QLD

24h ago , from Fire and Emergency Services Queensland

The Queensland Fire Department (QFD) provides fire prevention, preparedness and response services to fire in the built and landscape environments, as well as scientific and specialist capabilities to Queensland communities. The QFD provides a multi-hazard emergency response, including road crash rescue, bushfire, hazardous material, technical and vertical rescue, severe weather incidents, remote and swiftwater rescue, and provides a number of functions supporting community safety outcomes.

The department encompasses Queensland Fire and Rescue (QFR), Rural Fire Service Queensland (RFSQ), as well as the broader department which work together to pre-empt, prevent, mitigate and manage the consequences of fires and other emergencies on Queensland communities and support our large volunteer membership across the state.

The QFD is an organisation that is committed to reframing the department’s relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities, and organisations through activities identified in the QFD Reframing the Relationship Plan, contributing to Closing the Gap outcomes and building our cultural capability.

The Deputy Commissioner, QFR is responsible for leading the performance and specialist service delivery elements of fire, emergency management and specialist emergency response activities to communities throughout Queensland. This is achieved by overseeing and leading the delivery of all QFR services through our four regional office locations.



Along with supporting the Commissioner in the performance of the Commissioner’s statutory functions, you will be accountable for leading improvements in the overarching performance and capability of QFR.

The position requires strong professional leadership and management capabilities. The role requires an ability to lead and manage urban and emergency management services to deliver government priorities along with excellence in client service delivery. The Deputy Commissioner is to provide high level leadership particularly by working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders. As an executive your performance will be assessed in according to four key accountability perspectives: financial; stakeholder and outcome; internal business; and learning and growth.

This position is accountable to the Commissioner, QFD.

- professional firefighting experience which requires the ability to demonstrate significant knowledge of and practical experience in each of the following:
- responding to, combating and managing structural fires, bushfires, and incidents involving hazardous materials
- carrying out specialist and technical rescues
- responding to and managing disasters.

AND

- incident control expertise which requires the ability to demonstrate significant knowledge of and practical experience in the control of:
- incidents of large-scale structural fires and bushfires; and




- incidents involving hazardous materials; and
- specialist and technical rescues; and
- responses to disasters.

AND

- fire prevention expertise which requires the ability to demonstrate significant knowledge of and practical experience in fire prevention, in relation to:
- building fire safety; and
- community education and enforcement; and
- mitigation and prevention strategies in the built environment and rural environments that are susceptible to bushfires.

- Experience must be obtained by employment as a firefighter in QFR or a fire service (however described) in another State or Recent Zealand that is equivalent to QFR.

Your part in the ongoing success of our department, in providing key frontline services will see you responsible for a variety of work, including, but not limited to:

- Provide strategic direction and leadership within QFD to ensure the effective delivery of services through best use of the human, financial and capital resources, ensuring government and corporate objectives are met.
- Management of organisational capability and direction in response to contemporary performance expectations in liaison with our business partners.

Stakeholder and outcome

- Develop strategic partnerships and effective relationships with Local Government, Queensland Police Service, emergency services agencies and other State Government agencies, Commonwealth agencies, non-government organisations and other organisations including volunteer organisations which contribute to the effectiveness of Queensland’s disaster management system.
- Develop and sustain relationships within the organisation, with the Ministers Office, acro

📌 Deputy Commissioner (Albion)
🏢 Queensland Fire And Emergency Services
📍 Albion