Administrative Assistant

Pay Range: $22.90 - $28.62/hr. | $47,632.00 to $59,539.00 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am-5pm; Full-Time position at Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex Fire Administration

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, and Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

The City of Fort Worth Fire Department is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented Administrative Assistant to support Fire Administration within the Purchasing Unit. This position is located at the Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex and operates in a fast-paced, high-volume environment that supports one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country.

The Fort Worth Fire Department delivers a broad range of critical services all aimed at protecting the community and enhancing public safety. The Administrative Assistant plays a key role in supporting departmental operations by assisting with purchasing and administrative functions essential to the department’s mission and daily operations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associates degree from an accredited college with major course work in Business Management, Public Administration, Business Administration, or a related field
• Four (4) years of clerical and administrative experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Principles and practices of finance and accounting.
• Purchasing practices and procedures, including the techniques of specification writing.
• Experience working in a highly paced environment with competing deadlines
• Methods and techniques of conducting research
• Basic principles of contractual agreement law

The Administrative Assistant job responsibilities include:

• Evaluate the quality and price of products to determine the suitability of good and alternative offered.
• Prepares specifications for bids
• Assist with basic contract drafting and related documentation.
• Ability to identify cooperative agreements and research alternative purchasing options.
• Receive, review, and create requisitions and issue purchase orders
• Track and review purchases to confirm accurate and timely vendor payments.
• Serves as backup for various staff positions in their absence
• Contribute to special projects as assigned
• Other duties as assigned

Working Conditions and Physical Demand

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.