Firefighter (Basic Life Support/Hazmat) in Illesheim bei U S Army Europe and Africa

Firefighter (Basic Life Support/Hazmat)

Ausschreibungsbereich

WER DARF SICH BEWERBEN / WHO MAY APPLY ?:

INNERBETRIEBLICHE Arbeitnehmer (m/w/d) in Deutschland. Dies umfasst alle ortsansaessigen Beschaeftigten der US Streitkraefte, einschliesslich US Air Force und AAFES-Europe, innerhalb Deutschlands. /
Current INTERNAL Local National Employees throughout Germany. This covers all current Local National employees of the U.S. Forces in Germany, including U.S. Air Force and AAFES-Europe within Germany.

UND / AND

AUSSERBETRIEBLICHE Bewerber (m/w/d), die in Deutschland wohnhaft sind./
EXTERNAL Local National Applicants, who reside in Germany.

Hauptaufgaben

Serves as a firefighter in a U.S. Army Garrison Fire Department. Is assigned to a fire fighting crew responsible to provide emergency response for multiple sites within/on the Army installation(s) involving diverse fire hazards including highly flammable liquids, high explosives, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), radioactive materials, and other non-standard hazards in facilities such as: maintenance facilities, communication sites, ammunition storage, vehicles, automatic data processing system buildings, major storage depots, places of assembly, schools, theaters, and family housing areas.

The firefighter is involved in the full spectrum of emergency response assigned to a garrison fire department. This includes, but is not limited to a wide variety of fire fighting, hazardous material response, and related aid and rescue work associated with facilities and operations at the garrison Work is complicated by the fact that U.S. Army fire departments frequently respond jointly with Host Nation Fire Departments, which are operating under different codes and guidelines, using different equipment. For combined responses, firefighter has to directly interact with host nation responders and must, in addition to the competencies described above, posses a thorough knowledge of host nation policies, protocols, procedures and equipment.

Qualifikationsanforderungen