Firefighter

The purpose of this position is to provide fire protection rescue and emergency medical services to the public.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs firefighting and medical emergency services by extinguishing fires from structures and vehicles effectively operating equipment evaluating emergency scenes delivering medical care to victims and assisting in hazardous material operations.
• Participates in required training classes and physical fitness.
• Performs daily station activities by completing incident reports and daily logs entering records of equipment checks and repairs and maintaining the station house and grounds.
• Provides community services by assisting citizens with questions and fire protection issues participating in school safety programs conducting station tours and equipment demonstrations and educating the public.
• Serves on employee team by assisting in improvements of existing city and departmental policies and functions.

Supplemental Functions:

• Performs other similar duties as required

Job Specifications and Qualifications:

Knowledge:

• Fire safety and education
• Geography of city
• Applicable federal state and local laws rules and regulations
• Firefighting standards

Licensing and Certifications:

• Ability to obtain North Carolina Firefighter Failure to obtain by the completion of recruit training may result in termination.
• Ability to obtain North Carolina Emergency Medical Technician certification. Failure to obtain by the completion of recruit training may result in termination.
• Ability to obtain Hazardous Material Awareness and Operations Level Certification. Failure to obtain by the completion of recruit training may result in termination.
• Valid state of residency Drivers License preferred.

Lateral Entry Requirements:

• North Carolina Firefighter Certification
• ICS & 800
• North Carolina Emergency Medical Technician certification
• Valid state of residency Drivers License preferred.
  • Lateral Entry Applicants must successfully complete a condensed Recruit Training Academy focusing on physical fitness department operating procedures and NFPA Job Performance Skills evaluations. Failure to successfully complete Lateral Entry Recruit Academy may result in termination or return into a traditional recruit academy format.

PLEASE NOTE: Applicants must meet the City criteria for an acceptable driving record.

Working Conditions / Physical Requirements:

• Positions in this class require: standing fine dexterity walking lifting carrying sitting reaching handling kneeling crawling pushing/pulling climbing vision foot controls balancing bending crouching hearing twisting and talking.
• Very Heavy: Exerting over 100 pounds occasionally 50-100 pounds frequently or from 20 up to 50 pounds constantly.
• Incumbents are subject to extreme temperature wetness and/or humidity respiratory hazards noise and vibration and physical hazards.
• Incumbents are required to pass the annual Job Performance Requirements (JPR) skills evaluations with a return to duty status which includes but is not limited to crawling carrying 50 pounds or more dragging 170 pounds or more pushing and pulling 75 pounds or more climbing 24-foot ladders and exerting 100 pounds of force.

• Mechanical repairs
• Using computers and applicable software applications
• Communication interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers supervisor the general public etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction