The City of Charleston Fire Department graduated ten engineers from its officer development class on Friday, July 18, 2014. The officer development class provides aspiring officers with eighty hours of training and education on a wide range of supervisory topics. Instruction is provided on leadership, administrative forms and processes, safety, handling routine alarms, strategy and tactics, building construction, fire origin and cause, and community education/relations. This training is delivered to newly promoted members who will assume leadership roles. This generally includes engineers and captains, but has also been extended to assistant engineers as part of the department’s succession planning process. The goal of the program is to provide members ascending to leadership roles with a foundation of knowledge that prepares them for the challenges of leadership and command before they assume the roles. The next phase of development will have the engineers being mentored for ten shifts under the direction of an incumbent captain. At the end of one year as an engineer and ten positive mentoring shift evaluations, the engineers will be able to act as officer of the company in the absence of an incumbent captain. The first delivery of the department’s officer development program was 2010. Since that time all of the department’s officers and engineers (incumbent and newly promoted) have taken the class. The next class, 14-02, will run September 15 through 26. The members of ODC Class 14-01 are: Engineer Steven Drexler Engineer Michael Gorby Engineer Brent Gunn Engineer Matthew Klinker Engineer John McDonald Engineer Jeffrey McGee Engineer Adam Mims Engineer Kyle Minasian Engineer Matthew Schmidt Engineer Floyd Small Congratulations to the members of ODC Class 14-01.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:40:29 +0000
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