About This Role
This firefighter role involves responding to various emergencies, operating as a firefighter under the supervision of a Fire Officer. The work includes maintaining equipment, extinguishing fires, and participating in rescue operations, while adhering to strict health and safety standards. The role also involves frequent training and maintaining required certifications.
Responsibilities
- Respond to multiple types of emergencies operating as a firefighter
- Maintain vehicles, equipment, tools, and protective clothing in a serviceable condition
- Extinguish fires and take precautions to prevent fire rekindling
- Operate pumps, foam generators, turrets, nozzles, and other firefighting tools and equipment
- Exercise caution to avoid personal injury and property damage and comply with strict health and safety standards
- Protect and preserve evidence indicating the cause of the fire at the site of a fire
- Properly wear personal protective clothing
- Conduct and take part in frequent reoccurring proficiency training, OJT and maintain required certifications
- Participate as a positive team member and understand and conform to the WEXMAC contract Performance Work Statement
- Actively participate and maintain a safe workplace, ensuring safety is the highest priority
- Comply with all Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) and Quality Assurance (QA) requirements and goals
- Maintain documentation as necessary to meet these requirements
- Ensure emergency equipment is operational and in a state of readiness as required by NFPA or other industry standards
- Maintain and clean personal protective equipment and work as an effective team member in cleaning equipment and facilities
- Conduct fire inspections, pre-incident planning and ensure that facilities are safe and documentation is recorded and tracked
- Operate computerized digital fire alarm receiving equipment including two-way radio communications equipment
- Perform additional property control and logistical duties in support of fire department operations to include, maintaining accountability of equipment, scheduling maintenance of equipment, coordinating appointments of subordinates, and other administrative duties as needed
- Serve as a team member on a rescue unit, ladder truck, engine company, water tender, or airport ARFF apparatus
- Enter burning or contaminated structures, vehicles, and other immediately dangerous to life and health areas to fight fires and/or perform rescues while wearing required personal protective equipment
- Act as a crew member for structural fires, aircraft fires, rescue operations, medical emergencies, hazardous materials responses and other emergency events as directed in accordance with process and procedures identified in the department, standard operating procedures
