In 2004 following short spell in fire protection transferred to divisional training as a watch manager and then to fire behaviour school where he served for 10 years training firefighters from Devon and Somerset and training fire service instructors from across the UK. During that time, he received fire behaviour training in Sweden at Sando college, developed a BTEC instructor course in Positive Pressure Ventilation. Rowan has delivered fire behaviour training in Dublin and worked in Dublin with Fire Department of New York to help to create the fighting fires in high rise buildings procedures used within DSFRS.
He was serving at Fire Behaviour School at the inception of Red One.
In 2014 Rowan transferred to National Resilience, initially as an Urban Search and Rescue Instructor, he was soon able to teach all the National Resilience skill sets including High Volume Pumping and Mass decontamination.
Rowan subsequently went on to become group commander in charge of National Resilience was a National tactical advisor in Urban Search and Rescue, High Volume Pumping and was a Specialist Rescue Advisor for DSFRS in rescue from water, height, and confined space. Rowan has attended and advised many major incidents including Whaley Bridge Dam breach in 2020, the WW2 bomb disposal in Exeter in 2021 and the Wareham Forest fire in 2022.
He retired from the fire service in 2023 and came to Red One as the Operations manager.