Fire Captain - Administrative

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Find innovative solutions to be applied to present-day challenges.
• Ensure that the City's Future Planning Thrusts (Objectives) drive the day-to-day operations of the shift.
• Understand the importance of management perspective, personnel management, leadership, and documentation.
• Collaborate with the Chief staff to develop, review, and revise Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for successful training programs.
• Use KPI to evaluate training data and identify performance weaknesses and strengths across all shifts.
• Responsible for ensuring consistent exposure reporting processes for fire operations and EMS incidents tracking across all shifts.
• Collaborate with the EMS Coordinator to receive Quality Improvement/Quality Assurance findings and designs and implement training for measurable improvement.
• Participates in the development of the department's strategic plan.
• Works with Shift Captains to plan and design training requests on various topics impacting operations and employee development.
• Assists in the research and analysis of after-action reviews (AAR) and analysis of significant incidents.
• Works with staff across all the City's departments to enhance department data collection and analysis.
• Serves as a liaison with Human Resources to help facilitate their needs and schedule crews for City-sponsored events or training.
• Plans, organizes, evaluates, and carries out specific projects that support the implementation of the City or Fire Department's goals and objectives.
• Reviews, develops and makes recommendations for policies and procedures for existing and newly developed programs.
• Collaborates with other City departments to develop interdepartmental training relationships.
• Responsible for managing department software design or updating report on ImageTrend, TargetSolutions, Telestaff, and any other platform used by the department.
• Conducts research and prepares reports as directed by the Chief Staff.
• Collaborate with the Battalion Chiefs and Company Officers in the development and tracking of training programs.
• Collaborate with the EMS Coordinator to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Spearhead quality improvement corrective outcomes within the EMS division.