Fire Officer

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What you'll do:

You will serve as a hands-on Fire Officer within CERN's Fire and Rescue Service, combining operational command on shift with managerial responsibilities in a complex, high-risk, international environment. Your primary responsibility is to lead and coordinate emergency response operations while actively contributing to planning, training, readiness and continuous improvement of the service.

Your responsibilities:

- Provide operational command during firefighting, rescue, and accident response incidents in a complex, high risk industrial environment, acting as on duty Fire Officer and coordinating effectively with internal services and external emergency responders in France and Switzerland.

- Maintain continuous operational readiness through oversight of personnel, vehicles, and equipment, ensuring safe, effective, and timely interventions.

- Sustain a strong hands-on operational presence, with direct engagement in daily fire station activities, team leadership, and shift level operations.

- Contribute to operational planning, emergency preparedness, and risk management, including post incident follow up and continuous improvement actions.

- Lead and support firefighter training, drills, and exercises, promoting operational competence, teamwork, and readiness.

- Participate in operational and administrative management, supporting projects, innovation, and stakeholder engagement to enhance safety and operational excellence.

Your profile:

- At least five years' experience as a Fire Officer in an urban, industrial, or large organised fire service, with proven operational command capability and sound knowledge of incident command systems.

- Hands on operational professional with strong understanding of fire station operations, readiness management, training, exercises, and operational preparedness.

- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and make sound decisions under pressure, working effectively in an international and multicultural environment.

- Experience working with partner emergency services and stakeholders, with a strong interest in innovation, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.

- Experience in Fire Prevention, Fire Engineering, Hazardous Materials, Dispatch, Education and Training, Emergency Medical response is desirable.

- You have the diplomas and/or certificates proving you are educated and trained as a Fire Officer or in the fields of Emergency Management, Operations Management, Incident command, Fire Science, Fire Engineering, Civil Protection, Public Safety, or an equivalent fire officer training programme or a related field.

- The ideal candidate shall have a Recognised Fire Officer certification issued by a public authority or an accredited body, with formal training in incident command (Bronze level or equivalent).

Your skills:

- Emergency first response: including preparedness, ability to plan, coordinate and execute emergency operations, including cooperation with internal services and external emergency organisations.

- Incident command and control: knowledge of operational procedures, command structures, resources and readiness mechanisms essential for effective response.

- Occupational safety and risk management: including crisis management, the capability to assess risks, manage crises and make sound operational decisions in high-pressure and time-critical situations.

- Stakeholder relationship management: ability to build and maintain effective working relationships, strengthen cooperation between teams and coordinate actions with multiple internal and external partners.

- Health, Safety and Environment expertise: understanding safety systems, emergency response principles and incident management in a complex industrial and scientific environment.

- Acts as role model and leads by example; uses power and/or position in the interests of all.

- Contributes to promoting a positive atmosphere in the team through an optimistic and constructive attitude; addresses issues.

- Has a structured and organised approach towards work; is able to set priorities and plan tasks with results in mind.

- Recognises what is essential; discriminates between important and peripheral information and is able to see the whole picture.

- Questions traditional assumptions and ways of doing things.

- Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the other language.

Employment conditions:

- A valid driving licence.

- Stand-by duty, shift work, and work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organisation.

- Residence in the immediate vicinity of the Organisation's installations.

- Interventions in underground installations.

- Work in Radiation Areas.