Brigade Support Officer (RFSO1) Rural Fire Service Queensland - Savanna
Queensland Fire Department – Mount Isa QLD
Current Queensland Fire Department employees and volunteers must apply via their internal careers site
Status: Permanent Full-time
Classification: RFSO1
Salary: $86,382.04 - $104,049.95 per annum
Division: Rural Fire Service QLD
Region/Directorate: NORTHERN REG
Work Unit: Savanna
Location: Mount Isa, Charters Towers
Closing Date: Midnight 4 January 2026
Reference No: QLD_QFD_21202_25
Purpose of this role
Rural Fire Service Queensland (RFSQ) Area Offices are responsible for providing support to Rural Fire Brigades and volunteers. As the primary local contact point, the Area connects local needs with District, Regional, and State resources to enhance training, mitigation activities, asset management, and brigade operations. The main purpose is to provide seamless and responsive support to volunteers to ensure effective operational bushfire response and mitigation.
Primary duties
* Respond to rural fires and other emergency incidents to provide operational support, mentoring and leadership either on-site or in incident control centres.
* Support operational preparedness, which may include maintaining heavy plant registers and conducting station, equipment, and fleet audits, to ensure operational capability and capacity across the Area.
* Assist Bushfire Mitigation Officers with local bushfire mitigation activities, including identifying bushfire risks, providing basic mitigation advice to landowners, and supporting community education.
* In collaboration with the Operational Capability Coordinator, assist brigades with planning, procuring, operationalising, maintaining and disposing of catalogue and non-catalogue equipment items.
* Support the execution of fleet and station maintenance plans (ensuring assets are available for planned maintenance and disposal) and assist with managing unplanned maintenance activities (including coordination of repair quotes, coordination of replacement vehicles, and assisting with insurance claims).
* Attend Rural Fire Brigade and/or Group meetings to provide timely updates, expert advice, assist with early resolution of issues, and support brigade governance requirements.
* Assist with training coordination, delivery, and facilitation across the Area, District and Region, as required, to ensure training needs and gaps for volunteers are identified and rectified as appropriate.
* Provide support to brigades and volunteers, including administrative assistance with member applications and grant applications etc.
Mandatory requirements
Must meet the mandatory requirements and attributes as outlined in the generic RFSQ Rural Officer One (RFSO1) role description.
Additional desirable requirements
Knowledge of, or experience working with volunteers and/or within a volunteer organisation.
Additional information
* Be able to meet the attributes of the generic Rural Officer One (RFSO1) role description.
* Volunteers and external parties with appropriate skills are highly encouraged to apply, noting that they may be asked to provide additional information to satisfy internal policies.
* Applicants will:
o have proven commitment to maintaining bushfire competencies and operating in a team environment.
o have capacity to participate out of hours (e.g., night or weekends) shift roster during disaster operations.
* Thorough knowledge of the concepts, strategies and issues associated with managing rural fireservices, particularly in a volunteer environment and have a sound knowledge of and ability to provide operational leadership at emergency situations utilising the AIIMS/IMS methodology.
* Incumbents may be required to travel and work within their area of responsibility and may also be required to undertake intrastate and/or interstate deployment and travel.
* This is a day work position yet may require flexible hours of work to meet functional demands, including working at night on weekends as part of the role.
* Officers appointed to this position will participate in a personal professional development program in conjunction with their supervisor.
* This role specification statement is linked to the generic role description, that provides the 'key accountabilities' and 'capabilities' to be addressed by the applicant. Applicants are strongly encouraged to review this role specification statement with the role description and consider the requirements when preparing their application.
Note: Where there is a conflict between the Role Description and the Role Specification Statement, the Role Description will prevail.
* More information on how to apply is provided in the relevant QFD Application Guide.
To find out more about the behaviours and competencies required for this role, visit Leadership competencies for Queensland | For government | Queensland Government.
Contact
Please contact Shane Hopton, Executive Manager District Coordination on phone ***or email ************@qfes.qld.gov.au.
How to apply
Please refer to the QFD QFD Application Guide Operational Officer (Statewide) Recruitment Process Application Guide for information on how to apply for this role. Refer to the Rural Officer One (RFSO1) Rural Fire Service Queensland generic role description in conjunction with the above. The Rural-Fire-Service-Officer-One-Statement-of-Suitability.docx template MUST be used in this process and uploaded with your application in Nexus.
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