Industrial EMT/FIRE FIGHTER

Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC•Narrows, VA

13h•Onsite

About The Position

This position involves skilled work in the control and suppression of fires, alongside providing medical care within the level of proficiency and transporting sick or injured persons to medical facilities. The role requires driving, operating, and performing routine maintenance on various fire apparatus and medical equipment. The individual will perform physically hazardous and mentally stressful tasks under adverse conditions. Responsibilities also include participating in fire safety inspections, training, fire station and equipment maintenance, plant education programs, and other plant safety initiatives. The work schedule operates on a 24-hour shift rotation, with 16 hours paid and 8 hours of bunk time. Overtime pay is provided if called out during bunk time, with specific conditions for extended call-outs. The schedule is varying but planned annually, typically involving 10 shifts per month with some weeks having two workdays and others three. The role requires responding to fires and emergency medical calls, determining the nature and extent of emergencies, and deploying adequate resources. It involves operating specialized department vehicles and various power tools like saws, ventilation fans, and extrication devices. Firefighting duties include laying hose lines, adjusting water and pressure streams, placing and climbing ladders, ventilating buildings, rescuing persons, placing salvage covers, and performing clean-up operations. Medical duties involve accessing, packaging, extricating, and transporting patients from diverse environments such as burning buildings, wrecked vehicles, confined spaces, water, wilderness, and high/low angle areas, while administering appropriate basic or advanced first aid per VA EMS protocols. The position also entails preparing and maintaining records and reports for alarms, medical calls, fire prevention, and plant education. Effective communication using portable radios and digital devices from emergency scenes is crucial. Participation in ongoing drills and classes for firefighting, emergency medical practices, hazardous materials, and special rescue techniques is required. Fire safety inspections in plant access buildings are also a duty. The working environment is subject to hazards including limited visibility, proximity to electrical currents, moving mechanical parts, exposure to infectious diseases, hazardous chemicals, fumes, odors, mists, dusts, gases, or poor ventilation, and all environmental conditions both indoors and outdoors. Wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus is a required essential function. Additionally, the position may involve other duties not directly related to firefighting or medical fields, such as snow removal, lunch deliveries, perimeter gate checks, safety eyewash inspections, locomotive engineer/brakeman tasks, security gate guard duties, and brush hogging.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED Certification
Possess and maintain, at a minimum, VA EMS (Virginia Department of Health Office of Emergency Medical Services) recognized EMT-B certification.
Possess and maintain Valid Driver's License
Possess and maintain EVOC (Emergency Vehicle Operator's Course) certification as recognized by Virginia office EMS
Must pass in-depth background check, which includes fingerprinting though VA DCJS (Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services)
Must get and maintain a Virginia unarmed security license.
Must be physically able to fulfill the duties and responsibilities and pass a physical examination including a DOT examination
Must be willing to work all shifts, weekends, and holidays as required.
Ability to read, analyze and interpret documents such as professional journals, technical procedures, operating and maintenance instructions, and internal department correspondence.
Ability to write detailed reports.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of peers and plant personnel.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as percentages, areas, and volumes.
Ability to make sound judgments under stressful conditions.
Ability to interpret and apply training and skills to practical situations through instructions given in written, oral, diagram or other forms.
REQUIRED to wear self-contained breathing apparatus to complete portions of the job essential functions.

Nice To Haves

Possess and maintain a recognized Structural Firefighter I certification.
Possess and maintain a Hazardous Materials Operations Level.

Responsibilities

Performs skilled work in the control and suppression of fires.
Provides medical care within level of proficiency and transports sick or injured persons to medical facilities.
Drives, operates and performs routine maintenance, on various fire apparatus.
Operates and maintains medical equipment.
Performs physically hazardous and mentally stressful tasks under adverse conditions.
Participates in fire safety inspections; training, fire station, fire extinguishers and equipment maintenance, plant education programs, and other plant safety programs or projects as may be assigned.
Works on a 24-hour shift rotation, 16 hours paid, 8 hours bunk time.
Respond to fires and emergency medical calls.
Determine the nature and extent of the emergency and provide for response and deployment of adequate resources to properly handle the emergency.
Drive and operate fire apparatus, or other specialized department vehicles.
Operate and maintain various power tools such as, saws, ventilation fans, extrication devices and other task specific equipment.
Lay hose lines, adjust water and pressure streams, place and climb ladders, ventilate buildings, rescue persons, place salvage covers and perform clean-up operations.
Access, package, extricate and transport sick and injured patients from a variety of environments, including, but not limited to, burning buildings, wrecked vehicles, confined spaces, water, wilderness areas, and high and low angle areas.
Prepare and maintain records and reports regarding fire alarms, emergency medical calls, fire prevention inspection, and plant education activities and supplies.
Provide assistance and administer appropriate basic, or advanced, levels of first aid treatment to ill or injured persons per VA EMS protocols and practices.
Communicates clearly using portable radios and digital communication devices from emergency scenes.
Participate in drills and classes pertaining to firefighting, emergency medical practices, hazardous materials, special rescue techniques and other continuing education programs.
Conduct fire safety inspections in plant access buildings.
Perform other duties as required, including snow removal, lunch deliveries, perimeter gate checks, safety eyewash inspection's, locomotive engineer / brakeman, security gate guard, brush hogging, etc.