Company Officer Certificate of Achievement (CA)

About the Program

The Company Officer Certificate of Achievement is designed for firefighters wishing to be promoted within their Fire Agencies to the rank of Lieutenant, Captain, and above. The Company Officer Certification utilizes NFPA 1021 Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications (2014) and NFPA 1051 Standard for Wildland Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications (2016) to provide the qualifications for State Fire Training’s Company Officer certification. **Some of the courses have prerequisites that can be met in a number of ways, please contact the FST Program Coordinator**

Career Opportunities

Company Officer Lieutenant - Captain of Fire Requirement to be promoted to Chief officer or Fire Chief

Program Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students are able to:

Demonstrate how to implement a plan of action to deploy incident resources completing all operations to suppress a wild land fire incident.
Demonstrate the ability to teach and deliver instruction from a prepared lesson plan utilizing instructional aids and evaluation instruments.
Demonstrate the use of human resources to accomplish assignments of a company officer such as personnel professional evaluations and performance reviews.
Identify conducting incident size-up, developing and implementing an initial plan of action involving single and multi-unit operations for various types of emergency incidents.
Identify the steps of certification in the Company Officer certification track.

Learning and Career Pathway Maps

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Required Core: (14 Units)

Course Number	Course Title	Units
FST 20	CO 2A Human Resource Management for Company Officers	2.5
FST 21	CO 2B General Administrative Functions for Company Officers	1.5
FST 22	CO 2C Fire Inspections and Investigation for Company Officers	2.5
FST 23	CO 2D All - Risk Command Operations for Company Officers	2.5
FST 24	CO 2E Wildland Incident Operations for Company Officers	2.5
FST 25	Instructor 1	2.5