Plant Fire Brigade Commander

Overall leadership of the plant fire brigade at Bosch in Hildesheim, including incident command, personnel development, preventive fire protection as fire protection officer, equipment and crisis management. Full-time, permanent.

• Overall leadership of the plant fire brigade: Professional, disciplinary and organizational management of the entire plant fire brigade made up of full-time emergency personnel (incl. shift leadership) and part-time fire service members.
• Incident command: Taking overall incident command for major incidents, complex technical assistance, accidents and emergencies on the plant site within the company's alarm and hazard defense planning.
• Ensuring stable and future-proof shift staffing as well as the alerting and deployment order for full-time and part-time personnel.
• Planning and managing training, further training and continuing education for both personnel groups to maintain all necessary fire service qualifications and special functions (e.g. breathing apparatus, machinists).
• Creating, regularly updating and continuing the company fire protection regulations (parts A, B and C).
• Carrying out and documenting regular fire safety inspections, identifying fire hazards and monitoring the removal of fire safety defects.
• Organizing and supporting company evacuation drills and instructing employees and fire safety assistants.
• Fire protection management: Further developing the company fire protection concept in close coordination with occupational safety, environmental and plant protection.
• Advice & inspections: Expert advice to plant management, departments and projects on new builds and conversions regarding structural, technical and organizational fire protection.
• Authority & interface management: Representing the company towards supervisory authorities, municipalities, professional fire brigades, police and rescue services; coordinating public-law fire service matters and recognition procedures.
• Fire service and emergency plans: Helping to create and update fire brigade plans, escape and rescue plans, alarm plans and incident documents (in coordination with the responsible authorities).
• Technical needs assessment and input to budget and investment planning (CAPEX/OPEX) for the responsible group management.
• Helping to prepare performance descriptions and specifications for procuring protective clothing, fire service equipment, extinguishing agents and vehicles
• Technical support and overarching quality assurance regarding the operational readiness of all equipment and vehicles.
• Interface coordination with the responsible departments and assigned employees who carry out the operational testing, servicing and maintenance of fire service equipment, alarm and extinguishing systems.
• Crisis and emergency management: Active participation and fire service expertise in the plant's emergency and crisis team.

• Successfully completed technical vocational training or a comparable technical qualification. A further qualification, e.g. technician, master craftsperson or university degree, is desirable.
• Sound leadership training in a fire brigade: at least qualification as platoon leader (e.g. F IV or a comparable course at a state fire service school).
• The qualification to lead a plant fire brigade (e.g. Verbandsführer / training for plant fire brigade leaders) is ideal and expressly desired.
• Successfully completed training as a fire protection officer (e.g. according to vfdb / DGUV Information 205-003) is desirable.
• In addition to unrestricted fitness as a breathing apparatus wearer, you have the medical fitness to drive emergency vehicles and industrial trucks (forklift licence)
• Valid driving licence class C/CE
• You are confident with common MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) and are willing and quick to learn specialist fire service and incident command software.
• Several years of active professional and leadership experience in a fire brigade (plant fire brigade or volunteer fire brigade), ideally in an industrial or production-related environment.