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Heartland Fire & Rescue Job Roles
Fire Chief
- Leadership and direction to organization
- Strategic planning goals
- Professional Standards
- Performance Reviews
- Budget management
- Final review of policies and procedures
- City Council and City Directors meetings
- Board of Chiefs for Heartland Communications Facility Authority and Heartland Training Facility
- Zone Chiefs, San Diego County Chiefs, and Unified Disaster Council
- Community events
- Memorandums of Understanding
- Supervises: Division Chiefs (3), Fire Marshal, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, Management Analysts (2)
Division Chief - Operations
- Significant incident support
- Resource management and daily staffing
- Overhead and Mutual Aid capacity
- Special event planning
- Zone Operations Committee
- Pre-planning for significant incidents
- Master training schedule
- Fleet maintenance
- Secondary coverage to Fire Chief
- Supervises: Operational Battalion Chiefs (3) and Training Battalion Chief
Division Chief – Administration/ Emergency Medical Services
- Policies and procedures
- EMS program oversight
- EMS budget
- EMS committees
- Regional Cooperative Care (RCCP) liaison
- Infection Control Officer
- Hiring and promotional processes
- Staffing program and CAD systems
- EMS contracts/agreements/compliance
- Workers compensation/Exposure reporting
- Professional license tracking
- Safety Committee
- Personnel and accident investigations
- Performance measures
- Website and social media
- Significant incident support
- Secondary coverage to Fire Chief
- Supervises: Administrative Battalion Chief
Division Chief – Logistics/Support Services
- Radios/cell phones/pagers/tablets/MDC’s
- Station alerting system
- Facilities management
- SCBA repair and maintenance
- Fire Apparatus purchasing/Fleet specifications
- Suppression equipment specs/purchasing
- Suppression equipment maintenance and replacement
- Badges/patches/Class A uniforms
- GIS mapping
- Pre-fire planning
- Significant incident support
- Secondary coverage to Fire Chief
Fire Marshal
- Fire Prevention Bureau management
- Fire code enforcement official
- Fire Prevention Bureau public records requests
- Plan review/large plan check
- Code development and management
- Fee schedule development
- Fire Prevention Bureau budgets
- San Diego County Fire Marshals group
- Supervises: Deputy Fire Marshal, Fire Inspectors
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
- Emergency operations plans
- Evacuation plans
- Continuity of operations plans
- EOC training and exercises
- Community preparedness awareness and training
- Community preparedness resources
- EOC activations
- East County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program
- NIMS compliance
- Hazard mitigations
- Emergency preparedness and CERT budgets
Administrative Office Staff
- Budget development, implementation, and monitoring
- Grant management
- Reconciliation of Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement
- Reimbursements
- Data analysis
- Accounts payable and receivable
- Purchasing procurement
- Contract administration
- Payroll
- Administrative support for Chief Officers
- City and department liaisons
- Performance measures
- Software administration
- Personnel processing
- Records requests
- Website and social media
- Forms, documents, processes
- San Diego County Fire Chiefs - Administrative Section
- Cal Chiefs - Administrative Fire Services Section
Battalion Chief – Training
- Training program development and management
- Personnel development
- Captains training
- After Action Reviews
- Reserve Firefighter and Fire Explorer programs
- Specialized training
- Scheduling of EMS and suppression training
- Zone Training Officers
- Task Book management
- UASI training
- JAC program
- New hire orientation
- Training software administrator
- Training budget
- Significant incident support
Battalion Chief – Administrative
- Roster management
- Apparatus repair estimates/part ordering
- Pump testing
- EMS equipment specs/purchase
- EMS equipment maintenance and replacement
- Controlled substance management
- E-PCR and patient data
- NFIRS reporting
- Annual physicals
- Fit testing
- Significant incident support
- Secondary coverage