Kananaskis Fire Captain

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Kananaskis Emergency Team Lead, the Kananaskis Fire Captain plays a vital leadership role in coordinating fire and rescue operations. Based out of the Kananaskis Emergency Services Centre, this position is responsible for leading a range of emergency and non-emergency response activities, ensuring community safety across a dynamic and diverse region.

Some key operational responsibilities of this role include:

• Leading structural fire suppression, wildland urban interface (WUI), and wildland fire suppression operations.
• Performing vehicle extrications, emergency medical response, and assist with structural/backcountry/slope rescues.
• Responding to hazardous materials incidents.
• Providing inter-agency support to partner emergency services, including after-hours emergency response.
• Supervising and training paid on-call firefighters.
• Delivering public fire prevention and education programs.
• Ensuring maintenance and operational readiness of emergency vehicles, equipment, and facilities.

This is an exciting opportunity for a strong leader with a passion for public safety and a commitment to excellence in emergency services.

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APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

Drive for Results: 

• Proactively identifies and addresses project challenges and barriers to success.
• Removes obstacles to collaboration and drives achievement of outcomes.
• Upholds principles and directly confronts issues when needed.
• Aligns decisions and solutions with organizational goals and priorities.
• Delivers results across key portfolios, including inspections, prevention, education, training, safety, maintenance, and logistics.

Agility:

• Anticipates and manages change, including associated risks and emotional impacts.
• Identifies and communicates alternative approaches, helping others adapt.
• Clearly explains the impact of changes and maintains focus on goals.
• Makes decisions and takes action in uncertain situations, with contingency plans in place.
• Leads emergency response using clear incident action plans for structural fires, wildland fires, rescues, and medical response.
• Ensures officer safety, effective incident management, and positive public relations.

Develop Self and Others:

• Fosters a culture of continuous learning and shared development.
• Guides team learning and supports individual development plans.
• Applies emerging methods and practices to achieve goals.
• Designs, delivers, and evaluates fire training programs.
• Aligns training curriculum with Fire Centre of Excellence standards and partner agency needs.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Certificate in a related field plus two (2) years related experience as a Fire Services Leader.
• Five (5) years experience in a fire fighting environment.
• Related training certifications such as FPA 1001 Firefighter Level 2 / NFPA 1002 Driver/Operator and Pump Operations Levels / NFPA 1021 Fire Officer Level 1 minimum / NFPA 1041 Fire Service Instructor Level 1 minimum.
• Emergency Medical Responder certification (or equivalent) (160 hours) minimum; either registered with the Alberta College of Paramedics or a recognized training program completed within past 2 years.
• Alberta Safety Codes Officer - Group B1.
• Alberta Operators license class 3/4 or better with a Q endorsement.

Key skills and abilities:

• Supervisory, organizational and interpersonal skills, and ability to control work priorities to meet departmental goals and objectives.
• Proficient mechanical aptitude to assist in routine and emergency maintenance to all mobile, fixed, and portable equipment.
• Must be able to provide competent and accurately created reports based on Acts, Legislation or Codes.
• Ability to to operate computers, and department computer programs.
• Full working knowledge of departmental policies and procedures and applicable Acts and Regulations.
• Excellent verbal communication.
• Familiarity with Kananaskis Country is essential.
• Must be able to read topographical maps and determine, supply or convert coordinates as required.
• Must be able to work within a dynamic, fast paced team environment to solve non-standard issues.
• Must demonstrate safe work procedures as outlined in the annual safety plan.
• RCMP security clearance required.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

Final candidates will be required to undergo an RCMP security clearance.

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in. 

What the GoA has to offer:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
• Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.