Job Description

Posting number: PT Less Than 50 Firefighter

Department: Emergency Services

Job classification: Firefighter

Posting type: Open

Categories: Fire & EMS

Our core values—Resilience, Excellence, Accountability, Customer Service, and Honesty—are the foundation of our work and the standard by which we operate. As a member of our team, you are expected to demonstrate these values in every aspect of your role. This means delivering high-quality work, taking responsibility for your actions, providing exceptional service, and maintaining integrity in all interactions. Your commitment to these principles is essential to fostering a positive workplace culture and ensuring the success of our organization and the community we serve.

This part-time position is not eligible for any benefits and is only paid for hours worked. The weekly requirement for this position is 10 hours a week.

Examples of duties

• Responds to incidents and disasters as a firefighter; performs necessary work related to fire suppression.
• Responds to incidents and disasters to provide vehicle extrication and rescue services.
• If certified as an EMT-B, provides basic life support techniques and first aid procedures based on patient assessment and in accordance with established guidelines and written or verbal instructions from physicians.
• Maintains and operates emergency vehicles and equipment to include daily truck checkoffs, reporting of vehicle and equipment deficiencies, cleaning of vehicle and equipment, minor equipment maintenance, and station duties.
• Enters incident reports, training, and any other information deemed necessary into a data base; files reports and records; maintains departmental data.
• Participates in and conducts educational programs to promote all hazard preparation to include life safety and fire prevention.
• Performs assigned functions as a Disaster Ready Team (DRT) member.
• Performs related tasks as required

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications

Physical Requirements:

This work requires the regular exertion of up to 25 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 50 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 100 pounds of force; work regularly requires standing, walking, sitting, speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and repetitive motions, frequently requires reaching with hands and arms, pushing or pulling and lifting and occasionally requires climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling and tasting or smelling; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using of measuring devices, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities; work occasionally requires wet, humid conditions (non-weather), working near moving mechanical parts, working in high, precarious places, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, exposure to outdoor weather conditions, exposure to extreme cold (non-weather), exposure to extreme heat (non-weather), exposure to the risk of electrical shock, working with explosives, exposure to vibration, wearing a self-contained breathing
apparatus and exposure to bloodborne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g., business office, light traffic).

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