Fire Fighter

City of Muscatine•Muscatine, IA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Muscatine Fire Department offers an exciting career with opportunity for training and experience in a wide variety of emergency and non-emergency response areas. The City of Muscatine will pay for your paramedic certification and the training needed to become a firefighter. Muscatine has a progressive Fire Department staffed with full-time personnel who provide fire protection and ambulance services to the City of Muscatine as well as fire protection and hazardous material response to the surrounding area. This is skilled fire fighter work performed as part of the Public safety operations of the City. Work involves the performance of related emergency and non-emergency fire and medical duties in line with departmental operations, as well as maintenance of all fire fighting and medical equipment, building and grounds. Work is performed according to departmental procedures and regulations and instructions received from a superior officer who supervises and evaluates work performed. In the absence of a higher ranking officer, the fire fighter will begin operations according to standard firefighting practices and departmental standard operating procedures.

Requirements

Minimum certification of Iowa EMT or NREMT
EMT certified candidates will be required to enter into an agreement to become certified as a paramedic within three years, in a course chosen and paid for by the City.
Pass a written exam as required by the City
Pass physical and drug screen post job offer
CPAT card will be required for this round of hiring or ability to pass a physical agility test.