industrial firefightertochief fire officer
A industrial firefighter already meets 51% of what the chief fire officer role asks for. The move turns on 5 required skills not yet in the profile.
51%
50/ 100
1 Share of the chief fire officer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the industrial firefighter profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A chief fire officer role treats 11 of its required skills as things a industrial firefighter already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- ensure public safety and security
- extinguish fires
- fire prevention procedures
- fire safety regulations
- fire-fighting systems
- implement fire safety management plans
What stands in the way is 5 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 13 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A chief fire officer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a industrial firefighter background worth leading with.
- already held implement fire safety management plans management skills
- already held manage emergency care situations management skills
- already held organise fire drills management skills
- already held work as a team in a hazardous environment communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held use different types of fire extinguishers assisting and caring
- already held select hazard control assisting and caring
All 13 carried skills, including the 11 the chief fire officer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 23 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held lead a team required
- required, not held manage staff required
- optional, not held assess employees' capability levels optional
- optional, not held coordinate rescue missions optional
- optional, not held manage budgets optional
- optional, not held plan health and safety procedures optional
- optional, not held recruit employees optional
- required, not held pyrotechnic articles legislation required
- optional, not held pollution legislation optional
- required, not held first response required
- required, not held use geographic information systems required
- optional, not held conduct public presentations optional
- optional, not held coordinate with other emergency services optional
- optional, not held educate public on fire safety optional
- optional, not held maintain operational communications optional
- optional, not held train employees optional
- optional, not held apply first response optional
- optional, not held operate fire extinguishers optional
- optional, not held supervise worker safety optional
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a chief fire officer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 first response knowledge · sector specific
- 02 use geographic information systems skill · sector specific
- 03 lead a team skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 13 skills that carry over
- already held ensure public safety and security skill
- already held extinguish fires skill
- already held fire prevention procedures knowledge
- already held fire safety regulations knowledge
- already held fire-fighting systems knowledge
- already held implement fire safety management plans skill
- already held manage emergency care situations skill
- already held manage major incidents skill
- already held organise fire drills skill
- already held use different types of fire extinguishers skill
- already held work as a team in a hazardous environment skill
- already held hydraulics knowledge
- already held select hazard control skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held manage security equipment optional
- optional, not held perform risk analysis optional
- optional, not held test safety strategies optional
- optional, not held environmental policy optional
18 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held pollution legislation optional
- optional, not held apply first response optional
- optional, not held assess employees' capability levels optional
- optional, not held conduct public presentations optional
- optional, not held coordinate rescue missions optional
- optional, not held coordinate with other emergency services optional
- optional, not held educate public on fire safety optional
- optional, not held environmental policy optional
- optional, not held maintain operational communications optional
- optional, not held manage budgets optional
- optional, not held manage security equipment optional
- optional, not held operate fire extinguishers optional
- optional, not held perform risk analysis optional
- optional, not held plan health and safety procedures optional
- optional, not held recruit employees optional
- optional, not held supervise worker safety optional
- optional, not held test safety strategies optional
- optional, not held train employees optional
19 held skills the chief fire officer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role assess risk factors skill
- not needed by the target role assist people in contaminated areas skill
- not needed by the target role contain fires skill
- not needed by the target role evacuate people from buildings skill
- not needed by the target role first aid knowledge
- not needed by the target role handle flammable substances skill
- not needed by the target role health and safety regulations knowledge
- not needed by the target role industrial engineering knowledge
- not needed by the target role industrial tools knowledge
- not needed by the target role inspect industrial equipment skill
- not needed by the target role liaise with industrial professionals skill
- not needed by the target role manage factory operations skill
- not needed by the target role monitor chemical process condition skill
- not needed by the target role monitor disposal of radioactive substances skill
- not needed by the target role perform search and rescue missions skill
- not needed by the target role provide first aid skill
- not needed by the target role regulations on substances knowledge
- not needed by the target role work safely with chemicals skill
- not needed by the target role work with chemicals skill
4 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held first response required
- required, not held pyrotechnic articles legislation required
- optional, not held pollution legislation optional
- optional, not held environmental policy optional
Other moves recorded from industrial firefighter
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.