CHAVES COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER at Chaves County, NM — New Mexico, USA | Base Career

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Under the direction of the Fire Chief, Volunteer Firefighters protect life and property by responding to emergency situations including fires, rescues, and other incidents.

Duties

include extinguishing fires, performing rescue operations, attending regular training, and maintaining firefighting equipment and facilities.

This position involves hazardous and physically demanding work, often performed under stressful conditions.

Volunteer firefighters may participate in New Mexico’s Public Employee Retirement Act, Volunteer Fire Plan.

You must ensure you make 50% of fire calls, meetings, and trainings.

Interviews will be scheduled and conducted by the District Chief or his/her designee.

Position Duties

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB: Respond to fire and emergency calls.

Assist with medical emergencies.

Deploy hoses and ladders; operate pumps and booster lines.

Use extinguishing agents, ventilation techniques, and firefighting tools as appropriate.

Rescue and evacuate individuals from fires and other emergency situations.

Conduct salvage operations and mitigate further damage to structures.

Operate under stressful conditions while wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA).

Use forcible entry techniques such as breaking glass, doors, windows, walls, or gates.

Cutting locks or bars using appropriate safety gear and equipment.

Participates in regular drills, demonstrations and training programs.

Clean, inspect, and maintain fire apparatus, tools, and protective gear.

Assist in refueling vehicles and restocking equipment and vehicles post-incident.

Respond to specialized emergency calls, including hazardous materials and confined space rescues.

Work collaboratively in a team under the direction of officers.

Maintain required certifications and licenses per department policy and state/federal regulations.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment This work requires the regular exertion of 50 to 100 pounds of force; work regularly requires standing, walking, speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, reaching with hands and arms, tasting or smelling, pushing or pulling and lifting and frequently climbing or balancing; work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception, night vision and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities; work regularly requires exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to outdoor weather conditions, exposure to vibration, wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus and exposure to bloodborne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment, frequently requires working near moving mechanical parts, working in high, precarious places, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, exposure to extreme cold (non-weather) and exposure to extreme heat (non-weather) and occasionally requires wet, humid conditions(non-weather), exposure to the risk of electrical shock and working with explosives; work is generally in a loud noise location (e.g. grounds maintenance, heavy traffic).

CHAVES COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER

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