Mgr, Emergency Svcs & Studio Fire Chief

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Global Emergency Preparedness & Response (GEPR) builds organizational resilience by enabling The Walt Disney Company’s business segments to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies and crises.

GEPR establishes global frameworks, standards, and tools that support consistent crisis management capabilities while empowering lines of business to execute response activities aligned to their operational realities.

The team partners closely with Global Security, HR, Safety, Technology, Legal, Communications, and business segment leaders to strengthen preparedness, improve response coordination, and embed a culture of readiness across a complex, global enterprise.

Within GEPR, the Walt Disney Studios Fire Department is a private fire department dedicated to supporting The Walt Disney Company’s properties in the Los Angeles Area.

Based at the Burbank studio lot and supporting additional Company properties, including the Glendale Campus and Prospect Studios, the department is responsible for fire prevention, fire and life-safety programs, fire code compliance for properties and TV/Film productions, fire protection system oversight, alarm response and investigation, emergency response coordination, and operational.

The department collaborates closely with the Burbank, Glendale, and Los Angeles Fire Departments to support fire and life-safety objectives and ensure a coordinated response to emergencies affecting Disney properties.

In limited circumstances, Fire Department personnel may take immediate action to investigate, contain, or extinguish incipient-stage fires when it is safe to do so.

• Provide strategic leadership, direction, and oversight for all Studio Fire Department operations, including fire prevention, life safety, departmental policy development, emergency response planning, training programs, staffing, budget planning, and operational readiness.
• Lead and develop a team of Fire Captains and Volunteer Fire Department personnel by establishing and/or implementing established performance expectations, training standards, operational procedures, and workforce development programs.
• Lead fire and life-safety initiatives across supported Disney properties, providing oversight of fire prevention activities, inspections, fire protection system testing, impairment management, emergency preparedness, hazard mitigation efforts, and regulatory compliance programs while partnering closely with Corporate Risk Management and other stakeholders to maintain a safe and compliant operating environment.
• Oversee departmental emergency response preparedness and operational readiness, ensuring personnel, apparatus, equipment, supplies, facilities, and response capabilities are maintained in a constant state of readiness to support business operations and emergency response needs.
• Direct the administration, governance, training, operational standards, and continuous improvement of the Volunteer Fire Department program, ensuring instructor cadre adherence to established training curricula, qualification requirements, polices, and safety standards.
• Provide executive leadership and oversight for the Unified Incident Command Team (UICT) program across supported properties, including governance of program standards, operating procedures, onboarding, training, exercises, activations, after-action reviews, and continuous capability improvement efforts.
• Serve as the senior fire and life-safety advisor to business leaders, production partners, facilities teams, security leadership, risk management partners, and other stakeholders on matters related to emergency preparedness, fire protection, regulatory compliance, and operational risk.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with municipal fire departments, emergency management agencies, regulatory authorities, production partners, and internal stakeholders to strengthen emergency preparedness, coordinated response capabilities, and organizational resilience.
• Partner with Risk Management, Corporate Real Estate, Global Security, Facilities, and business stakeholders to develop and implement strategies that enhance fire and life safety preparedness activities, fire protection, emergency preparedness, and business continuity objectives across supported properties.
• Establish fire department staffing models and operational coverage strategies to support the Studio Lot and other…