Deputy Commissioner (SES4H) Queensland Fire and Rescue

Queensland Fire Department
Status:
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Tenure Period:
5 Years
Classification:
SES4
Salary:
$11,037.75 - $12,225.30 per fortnight
Division:
Queensland Fire and Rescue (QFR)
Location:
Queensland Fire Department Headquarters - Albion
Closing Date:
Midnight, Sunday 29 November 2026
Current Queensland Fire Department employees and volunteers must apply via their internal careers site
About us
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.
Purpose of the role
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.
Mandatory operational requirements
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 New Zealand that is equivalent to QFR.
Your key accountabilities
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:
Financial
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, across the public service and with a diverse range of significant external stakeholders including unions and associations.
Provide executive leadership regarding local, inter-state, national and international trends, issues and initiatives relevant to fire and emergency management services and oversee policies, considering emerging trends and identifying long term opportunities.
Represent the interests of the state of Queensland effectively in public and internal forums and on a range of national forums that relate to national security.
Internal business
Provide high level visionary leadership within QFD and the community to ensure the delivery of world class professional, preventative and responsive fire and emergency services.
Provide leadership and undertake strategic decision making during times of State-wide or critical emergency response

Employment type
Emergency and Protective Services