#25-244 - Fire Lieutenant

Job Summary:  

The Industrial Fire Brigade Lieutenant serves as a front-line supervisor responsible for leading emergency response operations, overseeing daily crew activities, and ensuring compliance with site-specific safety protocols. This role supports the Fire Captain in maintaining operational readiness, training, and performance standards for brigade personnel.

This is considered a safety sensitive position and is subject to both the Company and the Client’s Industrial Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy, which includes: pre-employment testing, post-accident testing, random testing, reasonable suspicion testing, return to duty testing and follow-up testing. 

Examples of What You Will Do:

• Supervises subordinate personnel in their assigned duties.
• Provides effective leadership for all personnel necessary to carry out the business and mission of the Department.
• Maintains discipline and ensures that personnel follow department rules and regulations. Renders corrective action per company policy/procedures.
• Implements department goals and objectives, establishes work priorities, schedules and coordinates work to be accomplished per shift. Responsible for daily log, emergency calls and reports, overtime and injury reports.
• Response to alarms as an officer of a firefighting company (shift); performs variety of firefighting and EMS (if applicable) functions, including Incident Command Officer.
• Participates in daily training exercises and classroom lectures and prepares and conducts training for the department when assigned.
• Conduct fire inspections, supervise shift inspections, assign work projects and approve completed work.
• Participate in the development and implementation of continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs.
• Conduct demonstrations, tours, participates in providing training/lectures on fire safety, fire prevention, CPR, fire extinguishers, first aid and other subjects.
• Will stay up-dated on latest Fire Department/EMS standards and trends and evaluate possible implementation.
• Provide expertise in fire prevention, fire suppression and fire investigation strategies.
• Ensure safe and effective command of incident operations.
• Assigns personnel and equipment to such duties and uses as the Department requires.
• Responsible for cleanliness of station and maintenance of apparatus, tools, equipment and all other Fire/EMS equipment/supplies.
• Performs other duties as required by superiors.
• Projects a positive attitude and image to the client as a fire service professional to meet the client’s needs. 

Minimum Required Qualifications

Certifications

• Valid State Driver’s License, DUI within last 5 years, is disqualifying.
• Current NFPA 1001 Firefighter II with Hazardous Materials-Operations (State, IFSAC, or Pro-Board issued).
• Current Advanced – EMT certification (State or National Registry issued).
• Current CPR/AED
• Completion of NIMS ICS-100, 200, 700, and 800 at time of hire.

Experience:

• Must be able to work any shift assigned, including nights, holidays and weekends to include scheduled and unscheduled overtime and as needed on an emergency basis.

 Education:

• Must be a high school graduate or possess a GED certificate.