A life-changing, career‑defining opportunity for a pragmatic, people‑centred leader with hands‑on expertise in modern bushfire mitigation and safeguarding communities facing rural fire risk.
- Values based, with BUSHFIRE management + volunteer expertise
- Based in the thriving, busy garden city of Toowoomba Qld. with local travel
- Permanent role, salary with 14.25% super + 5 weeks leave + benefits
A seasoned leader with bushfire expertise who achieves through knowledge and action…
Here’s your chance to grasp an outstanding career and lifestyle opportunity doing work that really matters – helping shape how Queensland handles and responds to its rising bushfire threat.
As the senior fire leader for your District, you’re right at the heart of bushfire mitigation, community readiness and emergency response. You’ll bring people together to guide strategy, implement plans and champion the volunteer brigades who fight to keep Queensland’s rural and regional communities safe.
Your remit will include overseeing complex prescribed burns, supporting the Area Fire Warden Network, working closely with First Nations experts around traditional cultural fire initiatives – and a great deal more. And as you draw on your expertise to shape strategic and operational plans and manage budgets and assets, you’ll be building deep connections to the communities you serve.
This is an important, hands-on, different-every-day role where you’ll influence, guide, inspire and make numerous highspeed calls and decisions that save lives and make a measurable impact in others.
Your extensive experience in modern bushfire management is vital, but it’s your passion and your ability to lead with heart, clarity, energy and purpose that make the real difference.
…and you must be seasoned and confident.
To deliver unfailingly on this huge community responsibility and earn the trust of 40+ paid staff, and over 3,600 volunteers across 182 brigades, you need to ‘know your stuff’ – right from the ground up!
Maybe you started as a rural fire fighter volunteer? Perhaps you acquired your expertise in bush fire mitigation, compliance, investigations, or working with Parks, Environment or Forestry? Whatever your history, The Candidate pack will show you how to tie your valuable experience together to share your story and boost your application.
This is a very big operation with a lot of people to keep safe.
You will know that means: employee awards and enterprise agreements, finance, fleet management, procurement and reports. It’s all vital to ensuring the best possible use of human, financial and capital resources. Coupled with making sure all volunteers go into battle being bushfire trained, confident and supported with everything they need to stay safe. Your people sit at the heart of all that you do.
But your function as a trusted advisor is also vitally important.
As the conduit between the community and trusted advisor to the Deputy Chief Officer, you must have the acumen and expertise to expertly sift, sort, risk assess, brief and speak. You will skilfully handle what you know you can do; while also knowing what needs to be escalated up the line, engaging seamlessly upwards and downwards.
Should you need to relocate, you’ll love how Toowoomba offers big-city opportunity with small-city liveability and an amazing lifestyle. Known as ‘the Garden City’, it features stunning parks, leafy streets, a thriving arts scene with a vibrant economy based in education, healthcare, agriculture and tech. Toowoomba is relaxed, friendly, scenic, and full of character – the perfect place to call home, especially when house prices are just a fraction of those in Australian capital cities!
So, if you want a leadership role where your expertise, decisions and passion genuinely protect communities and every day brings purpose, teamwork, and impact – this could be your next big move.
When you apply
Be sure to follow the guidelines in the Information pack. Cite instances where you’ve performed the primary duties. And link key accountabilities and leadership capabilities to your own real life work with examples.
To be considered for this role, please prepare your cover letter, statement of suitability and your resume and apply via QFD Careers portal: https://career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=21303&company=datacombusP
If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Kym Cheatham on 07 3211 0001 for the candidate information pack.
Applications close: Midnight 1st March 2026
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