What do they do?
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in firefighting and fire prevention and control.
Also known as:
Battalion Chief, Captain, Chief, Crew Boss, District Fire Management Officer, Engine Boss, Engine Captain, Fire Battalion Chief, Fire Captain, Fire Chief, Fire Department Captain, Fire Lieutenant, Fire Marshal, Fire Prevention Chief, Fire Supervisor, Fire Suppression Captain, Forest Fire Specialist Supervisor, Hotshot Superintendent, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Firefighter, Operations Chief, Section Forest Fire Warden, Shift Commander, Single Resource Boss
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Ranks #12 in net job growth
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- Some college, no degree (33%)
- Associate's degree (24%)
- Bachelor's degree (23%)
- High school diploma equivalent (10%)
- Master's degree (8%)
- Doctorate or Professional Degree (1%)
- Less than high school diploma (1%)
Most Popular Majors that prepare First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers
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Degrees Granted
3,060
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Female Students
367
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Male Students
2,693
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Median Starting Salary
$41,340
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Degrees Granted
2,280
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244
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Male Students
2,036
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$41,340
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Degrees Granted
1,285
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Female Students
132
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Male Students
1,153
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Median Starting Salary
$41,340
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Degrees Granted
55
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17
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38
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Median Starting Salary
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Degrees Granted
52
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People in this career often have these skills:
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Instructing - Teaching others how to do something.
- Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
People in this career often know a lot about:
- Public Safety and Security - Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Education and Training - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Building and Construction - Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
- Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Mechanical - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
- Law and Government - Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
- Personnel and Human Resources - Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
- Administrative - Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
- Medicine and Dentistry - Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- Psychology - Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
People in this career often have talent in:
- Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Fluency of Ideas - The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Category Flexibility - The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
People in this career often do these activities:
- Request emergency personnel.
- Direct fire fighting or prevention activities.
- Rescue people from hazardous situations.
- Administer first aid.
- Assess characteristics of fires.
- Relay information about incidents or emergencies to personnel using phones or two-way radios.
- Operate firefighting equipment.
- Train employees in proper work procedures.
- Inspect equipment to ensure safety or proper functioning.
- Maintain fire fighting tools or equipment.
- Evaluate employee performance.
- Direct employee training programs.
- Prepare activity or work schedules.
- Develop fire safety or prevention programs or plans.
- Maintain operational records.
- Drive vehicles to transport individuals or equipment.
- Inspect facilities to ensure compliance with security or safety regulations.
- Monitor operational procedures in technical environments to ensure conformance to standards.
- Write operational reports.
- Determine operational procedures.
- Direct criminal investigations.
- Recommend improvements to increase safety or reduce risks.
- Inspect facilities to ensure compliance with fire regulations.
This page includes data from:
Career data: O*NET 28.3 Database
by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (“USDOL/ETA”). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA
Occupation statistics: USDOL U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics
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