Optimizing Fire and EMS Staffing with Enhanced, Agile Scheduling Software

In the high-stakes environment of fire and rescue, every second counts. Staffing workflows need to be seamless, efficient, and adaptable to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Major, ongoing investments in Vector Scheduling are designed to elevate your department’s scheduling operations with greater efficiency, advanced flexibility, and enhanced automation.

Vector Solutions is excited to introduce strategic, user-informed enhancements to Vector Scheduling that will help you more efficiently manage coverage while maintaining compliance.

Keep reading to see how an all-new Deployment feature, intelligent Hourly Minimum Staffing functionality, and streamlined Shift Bidding capabilities can simplify and automate your staffing workflows.

Deployment Feature: Accelerating Team Mobilization – Available Now

The new Deployment feature offers a smarter, more efficient way to manage assignments.

With a focus on simplifying complex shift scheduling, this new tool helps fire departments better manage everything from wildland and other large-scale disaster deployments to everyday assignments like training and community outreach events.

• Better manage shifts with customizable types per deployment.
• Ensure the right team is assigned by automatically matching employees to qualifications.
• Quickly edit and adjust assignments.
• Easily identify vacancies to backfill home stations for seamless coverage while personnel are deployed.

Hourly Minimum Staffing: Meeting Dynamic Operational Demands – Coming Soon

Your staffing needs can fluctuate throughout the day based on peak call volume, shift changes, and other operational demands.

New Hourly Minimum Staffing functionality enables your department to set hour-by-hour staffing requirements, adjusting open positions dynamically to ensure compliance in real time.

• Configure staffing needs throughout the day to reflect real-world demands, such as requiring specific roles like captain, engineer, or paramedic.
• Set rules to aggregate coverage across units in support of shared minimum staffing, helping your agency avoid under- and overstaffing.
• Adjust staffing plans to align with actual service demands, reducing inefficiencies while supporting operational readiness.

Shift Bidding: Streamlining Scheduling Transparency – Coming Soon

By adding intelligent Shift Bidding capabilities, Vector Scheduling transforms how fire-EMS agencies manage bids at scale and optimizes recurring schedules.

Through an automated bidding process, personnel can select shifts based on predefined rules, while administrators retain control and visibility over the process.

• Enable separate bid groups for roles like firefighter or engineer to ensure qualified coverage while honoring seniority.
• Leverage flexible recurring patterns to more easily manage long-term schedules.
• Get real-time oversight with automatically updated shift assignments on the scheduler.

These recently released and upcoming enhancements strengthen Vector Solutions’ position as the industry leader in workforce management for fire departments. Vector is committed to continual innovation to support evolving needs in the fire service and across public safety.

Request a demo to discover how Vector Scheduling can help your fire department run efficiently and effectively, so you can focus on what matters most—saving lives and serving your communities.