Peter Stanley has held various leadership positions across the education, logistics and emergency management sectors for over forty years. His experience in incident and emergency management is both extensive and broad.
Peter was a CFA volunteer for around 35 years and has experience as a brigade Lieutenant, Captain and Deputy Group Officer. He has been deployed to numerous major fires in Victoria and New South Wales as a firefighter and Strike Team Leader.
After leaving the education sector, Peter spent some time working in the transport logistics sector before finding the Victoria State Emergency Service where he has passionately worked in the community safety area, as a Regional Officer and most recently as Manager Regional Operations in the North West Metro area of Melbourne.
He is a former endorsed Level 3 Incident Controller and has worked as a Regional Agency Commander, Regional Controller and State Commander. He has sat on both Regional and State Control Teams whilst in these roles. Peter has been deployed to major searches, fires, storms and floods in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. Peter has also been deployed to major incidents in Victoria as a member of the Real Time Performance Monitoring Team which has the role of assessing and reporting to the Emergency Management Commissioner (EMC) on the performance of Incident Management Teams at major incidents.
Peter has worked for the Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner (OESC) in Victoria as a Senior Project Officer in the Capability Enhancement Unit. He was a member of the OESC team that developed the Emergency Management Liaison Officer (EMLO) training package and wrote and delivered a series of fire related exercises across Victoria. Peter has developed and presented numerous emergency management packages to volunteers, partner agencies and local councils.
Peter is currently a consultant in the emergency management space working with local government, emergency services and state government departments.
