Watch Manager - RAF Shawbury

Job Title

Watch Manager - RAF Shawbury

Location and Employment

Location: Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Time: Full time
Contract: Permanent

Overview

Protecting our military operations nationwide, you will contribute to the protection of people, assets, and maintaining military output while ensuring the communities we operate in remain safe. You will have direct management of the Fire Station and Fire Safety personnel, monitor, manage and report on operational service and personnel performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and supervise the delivery of the CFR Operations Response, Prevent and Protect service delivery plan.
• Manage Fire Safety/Response resources and assets.
• Deliver operational outputs to meet CFR Operational Standards.
• Undertake quality assurance and compliance checks.
• Monitor, manage and report on operational service and personnel performance.
• Identify and develop continuous improvement opportunities.
• Directly manage nominated Fire Station/Fire Safety personnel and outputs.
• Ensure the working environment is healthy, safe and productive.
• Identify, justify and control the allocation of resources for fire station and fire safety activities.
• Ensure service delivery activities meet service requirement standards and achieve objectives.
• Debrief operational incidents and training activities, providing feedback to support service improvement, performance and compliance.
• Obtain, analyse and share information and client feedback with the Station Manager to make effective decisions and support continuous improvement.

Qualifications and Experience

• Lead teams and individuals to achieve their objectives.
• Maintain activities to meet requirements.
• Manage information for action.
• Take responsibility for effective performance.
• Support the development of teams and individuals.
• Investigate and report on events to inform future practice.
• Lead and support people to resolve operational incidents.
• Support efficient use of resources.
• Acquire, store and issue resources to provide service.
• Respond to poor performance within your team.
• Hold a relevant FT2 ARFF qualification.

Benefits

• 23 days of holiday (rising to 27) and option to buy additional leave.
• Auto enrolment to pension, life assurance, cycle to work scheme and enhanced family leave.
• Lifestyle perks including retail, travel and wellbeing discounts.
• Paid volunteering day.
• Access to inclusive employee networks.
• Training and development opportunities.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer. We welcome applications from women and from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds. If you require adjustments during the recruitment process please contact us via email or phone.