Firefighter​/Paramedic

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Firefighter/Paramedic

Department/Division: Fire Department

Salary: $91,000.00 Annual Salary / OT eligible

Status: Regular Full-time

Supervisor: Fire Captain, Fire Apparatus Engineer

Subordinates: None

• 401K Retirement Plan (Eligibility after (1) one-year service). Company Matches half of employee’s contribution up to 7%
• Paid Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Vacation Up to 13 days per year for FT employees
• Sick Leave Up to 8 days per year for FT employees
• Life Insurance The Company provides up to $25,000.00

Under supervision, to respond to fire alarms and other emergency calls for the protection of life and property; to render first aid lifesaving measures and perform related work as required.

• Receives, transmits, and responds to alarms
• Performs fire control activities and utilizes strategies in the areas of victim rescue, exposure tactics, ventilation, fire containment and extinguishment
• Fights structural, residential, commercial, industrial, chemical, petroleum, vehicle and wildland fires and is sometimes required to make forcible entries
• Inspects and maintains nozzles, appliances, fittings, hydrants, fire extinguishers, hand and power tools, ropes, emergency lighting equipment, generators, rescue and first aid and related equipment including fire protection systems
• Operates fuel and oil pumps, building heating and cooling systems, cutting, boring and sawing tools, lighting, lifting and air moving equipment, various types of extinguishers, appliances, elevators, fire protection and escape systems, radio equipment and meters
• Uses a variety of tools, ropes, knots, ladders, life lines, belts and couples; reels, unreels and carries hoses; connect nozzles and valve fittings
• Extends and reduces hose lines; lays single and multiple hose lines; lays hoses and operates hose streams above and below street level; raises, climbs and works from extension ladders
• Provides emergency care and treatment of fire and accident victims; lifts, carries and transports victims
• Administers first aid to victims of accidents and fires; renders emergency medical aid as an EMT within a team consisting of a communicator and an attendant, examining victim, communicating vital medical data to medical personnel and administering medical treatment by established guidelines and the specific instruction of hospital medical personnel
• Assists the public in a wide variety of emergency calls involving illness and urgent situations, and may need to assist in traffic control
• Conducts fire drills and demonstrates fire equipment
• Assists in the investigation of fire; writes fire alarm and various reports
• Interprets federal, state, local and departmental rules and regulations; assists in the maintenance of fire station and grounds
• Performs a variety of collateral administrative work involving fire prevention and suppression programs and engages in public information activities
• Recommends purchase of firefighting equipment, physical fitness apparatus and station appliances; conducts fire prevention inspections of dwellings, public assemblies and commercial, industrial and government buildings and maintains an inventory of items
• Identifies common, special, structural and panic hazards; interprets fire and building codes; issues orders to comply with such codes
• Examines the storage, handling and use of flammable and combustible liquids and other hazardous materials; makes recommendations regarding the correction of hazards
• Operates Tribal vehicles observing legal and defensive driving practices
• Performs related work as required

• Knowledge of basic mathematics and mechanical relationships
• Knowledge of record-keeping…