What are the responsibilities and job description for the Firefighter position at City of Carmel?
Job Description
The Carmel Fire Department is dedicated to protecting the lives and property of our community through fire prevention, education, and emergency response. We are committed to maintaining a safe and prepared community, and we are looking for passionate and dedicated individuals to join our team of firefighters.
Essential Job Functions
The following duties are normal for this position. These are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may be required and assigned.
The Carmel Fire Department is dedicated to protecting the lives and property of our community through fire prevention, education, and emergency response. We are committed to maintaining a safe and prepared community, and we are looking for passionate and dedicated individuals to join our team of firefighters.
Essential Job Functions
The following duties are normal for this position. These are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may be required and assigned.
- Responds to various emergency situations including, but not limited to, fires, accidents, medical and rescue emergencies and hazardous materials incidents.
- Performs search and rescue, ventilation, fire suppression and hazardous materials clean-up duties at the scene of a fire or accident.
- Responds to medical emergencies as a certified emergency medical technician and performs various duties, including administering basic first aid, checking vital signs, stabilizing victims, and providing transportation to an area hospital.
- Clears roads during inclement weather; may operate the boat as a member of a water rescue team.
- Inspects, cleans, and restocks equipment, tools, and supplies on vehicles and in the fire station.
- Enters fire and emergency rescue data in a personal computer; updates records and generates computer reports as needed.
- Performs routine building and equipment maintenance and repair work at the fire station.
- Participates in departmental training activities and programs to maintain required certifications and to learn of new equipment and techniques; attends district training to update specific knowledge of assigned district.
- Performs fire code inspections and fire investigations as assigned.
- Provides tours of the fire station and distributes public education materials to school and community groups and the general public.
- Provides assistance with special events, holiday functions, and other City activities.
- Performs other related duties as required.
- Ability to collect, assess and record data.
- Ability to utilize a variety of reference and descriptive and advisory data and information.
- Ability to exercise discretion in identifying and selecting from alternative courses of action.
- Ability to communicate effectively with superiors and co-workers and members of the public.
- Ability to perform tasks in changing and stressful circumstances; includes the ability to maintain control of emotions and actions and to make rapid decisions.
- Ability to calm and comfort individuals who are distraught, ill, or injured.
- Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and to calculate decimals and percentages; ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights and measures.
- Ability to operate a personal computer, utilizing word processing, spreadsheet, database management, mapping, incident reporting and other software applications as may be necessary to perform essential job functions; ability to operate a mobile data computer.
- Ability to utilize a variety of tools, equipment and supplies associated with firefighting, EMS and rescue activities, including, but not limited to, turnout gear, radios, cameras, gas detectors, chain saws, smoke ejectors, extrication tools, hand tools, pumps, foam chemicals and first aid equipment.
- Ability to operate a motor vehicle to conduct work activities.
- Ability to work a 24-hour shift with limited downtime, which may allow for limited rest.
- Ability to exert heavy to extremely heavy, though not constant, physical effort, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and the lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials weighing 21-50 pounds; may occasionally involve objects and materials up to and exceeding 100 pounds.
- Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as fire, smoke, moisture, dirt, dust, snow, rain, severe weather, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, violence, fumes, toxic agents, disease or pathogenic substances.
- Performance of essential functions may require life-or-death decisions based on circumstances beyond incumbent's control; decisions may affect the general public and co-workers as well as incumbent.
- Must be a United States Citizen.
- Must be at least 21 years old.
- Must posses a High school diploma or GED.
- Must possess and maintain a valid Indiana driver's license.
- Must be able meet all other eligibility criteria outlined in the Minimum Qualification document on the recruitment website or they can be found by following this Link and clicking on Basic Requirements.
