Fire Chief: City of Belmont, NC

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Contact: City of Belmont HR

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Belmont, NC’s beautiful, historic mill city – near Charlotte, NC – seeks a hands-on fire safety and prevention leader to serve as its next Fire Chief. This opportunity is for the professional with highly demonstrated technical skills and a progressive fire service experience history. Belmont’s next Fire Chief possesses knowledge and familiarity with all areas, levels, and ranks of fire and rescue, suppression, operations, and prevention, as well as the technology supporting these functions. Because the Belmont Fire Department is young, the successful candidate will have experience growing a department and a track record of advocating for the best staff recruitment and retention practices. Additionally, the incoming Fire Chief must maintain the continuous improvement mentality that the prior chief established to ensure up-to-date equipment and practices that promote the safety of staff and the community. As the City of Belmont prepares for ongoing growth, the department’s next Fire Chief will lead the department through a season of expansion to support the City’s growing needs, including leading efforts to address the need for expansion of fire coverage. The next Fire Chief will successfully balance overseeing day-to-day operations while executing the department’s short and long-term goals and remaining present and available to respond to emergencies, training, and meetings on nights and weekends. The next Fire Chief will be fully engaged within the department while also being visible and collaborative across City departments and the community to meet the safety needs of the residents of Belmont. Department staff seek a trusted leader who is naturally comfortable interacting with and mentoring staff and is confidently assertive in advocating and lobbying to the supportive City Council, City leadership, and other stakeholders for department needs. The community-minded Fire Chief successfully establishes and sustains trusted relationships within the fire department, city government and department directors, elected officials, and community and emergency response partners for the City of Belmont. Essential relationships with neighboring departments must be maintained and enhanced to share resources and leverage support when needed. The Belmont Fire Chief oversees all fire service functions including inspections, training and operations, budget management, and policy and procedure implementation.