Watch Manager - RAF Shawbury

Protecting our military operations nationwide

You’ll contribute to the protection of people, assets and maintaining the military output as well as making communities we operate in safer. You’ll have direct management of the Fire Station and Fire Safety personnel. As well as monitoring, managing and reporting on operational service and personnel performance.

We’re truly committed to building a diverse and representative workforce and as part of our strategic plans we are aiming to accelerate gender and ethnic representation in leadership. As such we would particularly welcome applications from people who are female and/or are from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds.

Job title:

Watch Manager - RAF Shawbury

Job Description:

What you’ll be doing:

• Manage and Supervise Duties the delivery of the CFR Operations Response, Prevent and Protect) service delivery plan.

• Manage Fire Safety/Response resources and assets.

• Delivery of operational outputs to meet CFR Operational Standards.

• Undertake Quality Assurance and compliance checks.

• Monitor, manage and report on operational service and personnel performance.

• Delivery, identification and development of continuous improvement.

• Direct management of nominated Fire Station/Fire Safety personnel and outputs

• Managing the delivery of activities to ensure the working environment is healthy, safe and productive

• Identifying, justifying and controlling the allocation, most efficient and effective use of resources to support fire station and fire safety based activities.

• Ensuring service delivery activities meet the service requirements standard and effectively achieve the objectives

• Debriefing operational incidents and training activities, providing feedback to support service improvement, performance and compliance

• Obtaining, analysing and sharing with Station Manager, information and client feedback to make effective decisions and support continuous improvement

• Identifying, improvement opportunities

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate their ability to:

• Lead the work of 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 the efficient use of resources.

• Acquire, store and issue resources to provide service.

• Respond to poor performance in your team.

To apply, you must hold a relevant FT2 ARFF qualification.

About Defence Fire and Rescue

Capita are creating a world class Fire and Rescue Service with the UK Ministry of Defence. We are game changing the future of firefighting within Defence with significant investment in technology, including the introduction of 128 state of the art fire fighting vehicles, and creating the conditions to provide Defence with a balanced approach to managing fire risk through an improved Prevention, Protection and Response strategy. We care about the safety of every firefighter, which is why we have invested in innovative training technology at our Fire Service College, providing state of the art scenario-based training in a realistic training environment. We are committed to our UK Armed Forces, just as we are to protecting our firefighters, whilst ensuring that Defence's operational capability is always supported.

What’s in it for you?

• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27), plus option to buy extra leave

• Auto enrolment to a pension, life assurance, cycle-to-work scheme, and enhanced family leave

• Lifestyle perks including retail, travel, and wellbeing discounts

• Paid volunteering day and access to inclusive employee networks

• Joining and exisiting team

• Excellent training and development

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Equal Opportunities

At Capita, we’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. We want everyone to have the best chance of succeeding as they move through their application and start their career with us. We are an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer; we want to hear from you if you’d like to discuss any adjustments you might need during your recruitment process. Please email [email protected] or call 07784 237318 and we’ll get back to you to discuss. 

For more information about equal opportunities and the types of adjustments we can offer, please visit the Capita Careers website.

If you have a question that does not relate to adjustments during your recruitment process, please email our Talent Acquisition team - [email protected]

Location:

Shrewsbury

,

United Kingdom

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent