Firefighter - Paid On Call

The Firefighter - Paid on Call position performs Firefighter duties.
Wage is $30.00 per hour per call/$15 per hour for training and meetings.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary.

• Assigned to act as a driver as needed (provided training and State certification for operation of the specific apparatus has been completed).
• Act in accordance with current agency/organization Standard Operating Guidelines (SOGs), Standard Operating Policies (SOPs), Administrative Orders.
• Operate in any position assigned under the incident command system
• Completing all necessary reports
• Prepare reports and ensure proper documentation of incidents.
• Initiate work orders as necessary to facilitate repairs
• Attend outside educational opportunities as available to develop and maintain the highest most current level of expertise.
• Maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the job.
• Complete reports as required to document maintenance
• Provide water supply for use at the incident
• Deploy ropes as needed to accomplish assigned tasks
• Maintain the knowledge and skills necessary to safely perform assigned tasks as required to:
  • locate, control, and extinguish fires
  • ventilate areas which contain smoke, hazardous gases, and/or other odors
  • force entry and gain access into closed areas
  • search for, and rescue victims from hazardous situations
  • prevent additional damage to personal property at incidents
  • extricate victims from vehicles, structures, and other entrapment situations
  • gain access to upper levels as needed to accomplish assigned tasks
  • deploy ropes as needed to accomplish assigned tasks
  • provide water supply for use at the incident
  • provide incident communications
  • facilitate incident investigation
  • operate in any position assigned under the incident command system
• Enforcing adopted fire safety codes
• Meet department expectations for participation in and/or leadership of department training activities, public education, and other events when on duty.
• Presenting educational programs to the public
• Report vehicle maintenance needs.
• Pre-planning occupancies within the community
• Maintain compliance with local, state and national training requirements.
• Facilitate incident investigation
• Maintain a current, valid State of Wisconsin Operators license, and must advise the Chief of any suspension, revocation, or additional restrictions of the license.
• Mitigate chemical spills.
• Assist with the training of the department members as qualified and assigned.
• Attend applicable department training and meetings as scheduled.
• Operate and drive ambulance in conjunction with applicable safety policies and laws.
• Ventilate areas which contain smoke, hazardous gases, and/or other odors
• Extricate victims from vehicles, structures, and other entrapment situations
• Assist with cleaning, maintaining, and performing necessary service or repairs as necessary to ensure that assigned stations and contents are in their best possible condition.
• Prevent additional damage to personal property at incidents
• Participate in organizational committees.
• Provide incident communications
• Understand the concept of and be committed to Whitewater Fire & EMS’s mission by demonstrating behaviors consistent with the City of Whitewater core values.
• Complete and submit all reports required for assigned duties, responsibilities, and tasks
• Force entry and gain access into closed areas
• Execute rescues.
• Gain access to upper levels as needed to accomplish assigned tasks
• Search for, and rescue victims from hazardous situations
• Maintain, and service, emergency equipment, tools, and apparatus as assigned to ensure its proper location and that it is in the best possible working condition.
  • initiate work orders as necessary to facilitate repairs
  • complete reports as required to document maintenance
• Assist with vehicle accidents, lift assists and other calls.
• Protect citizens during emergencies.
• Maintain the knowledge and skills necessary to perform fire inspection activities which include:
  • enforcing adopted fire safety codes
  • pre-planning occupancies within the community
  • presenting educational programs to the public
  • completing all necessary reports
• Locate, control, and extinguish fires

• Perform other duties as assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Valid Wisconsin driver’s license with acceptable driving record.
• Must maintain EVOC certification and be insurable by the provider
• Current Wisconsin State Firefighter Level I certification or ability to obtain.
• Complete NIMS/ICS training levels ICS-100, and ICS-200, ICS-700, ICS-800 within 6 months of hire

• At least 18 years old
• High school diploma or equivalent

• Ability to communicate in a professional manner regardless of the situation or conditions
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Ability to calculate percentages, fractions, decimals, volumes, ratios, present values, and spatial relationships.
• Ability to compare, count, differentiate, measure, copy, and record data and information.
• Ability to interpret basis descriptive statistical reports.

• Ability to analyze data and information using established criteria, in order to determine consequences and to identify and select alternatives.
• Demonstrated initiative, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and handle stressful situations, to organize work and set priorities, managing time and resources to meet deadlines and changing demands within the entire operation of administrative services, perform duties with a minimum of supervision
• Ability to quickly make assessments of emergency situations, determine appropriate responses and act assertively; cope with situations firmly, courteously, and tactfully.
• Ability to exercise the independent judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory and/or judgmental criteria.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

• Working knowledge of basic computer functions to include word processing, data processing and software record-keeping systems.
• Skill in the operation of departmental equipment, including but not limited to vehicles, medical equipment, radios, first aid equipment, telephone, and copy machine.

• Pass a medical examination for the occupational group and drug screen prior to hire.
• Pass a background check prior to hire.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Ability to work independently using time management skills
• Take an oath of office.
• Competency with Microsoft Office, Windows, RMS software, and other web-based software applications
• Ability to take on/manage multiple projects with broad direction
• Compliance with the conditions of employment as stated in the Employee Policies.
  • Take an oath of office.
  • Pass a background check prior to hire.
  • Pass a medical examination for the occupational group and drug screen prior to hire.

• Requires the ability to lift, bend, climb (stairs, ladders, fence, etc.), walks (on normal, slippery, uneven surfaces), stand or sit for various time frames.
• Wear personal protective equipment weighing approximately fifty (50) pounds while performing the tasks described above.
• Must lift/carry up to 10 pounds frequently and up to 100 pounds occasionally.
• Ability to lift/carry and ambulate with the agency/organization’s current medical equipment, bags, and supplies in an approved/recommended fashion.
• Requires the strength and stamina to perform fire suppression and/or patient care duties.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to talk or hear. Ability to hear and understand radio transmissions.
• Ability to operate patient movement equipment (cot/stretcher, stair chair, longboard/backboard, scoop stretcher, etc.) in an acceptable single-person or multiple-person scenario, according to manufacturer recommendations.
• Ability to meet the Department’s physical standards and maintain good health and fitness.
• Physical strengths, endurance and agility to handle the extreme stresses of the position, to rescue persons from burning structures, to risk life in the pursuit of life saving efforts. Must be able to use a respirator and perform duties in confined spaces.
• Must be able to drive and operate responding apparatus and vehicles equipped with lights and siren.
• Must be able to frequently lift and/or move 25 pounds without assistance and occasionally lift and/or move up to 200 pounds with the assistance of an additional crewmember.
• Must be able to use hands for handling objects, tools, controls and writing.
• Must possess sufficient strength and stamina to control pressurized hoses, extend ladders, operate the “jaws of life” and perform other rescue operation in full turnout gear and with safety equipment.
• Cannot have active/current medical/physical conditions, directed/outlined by a physician that may hinder performance, judgment, or physical abilities while providing an emergency response, direct patient care, or operation of motor vehicles.
• Must be able to make critical decisions and direct others under extreme conditions
• Perform physically demanding work while wearing positive pressure breathing equipment with one and one-half inch (1.5”) water column resistance to exhalation at a flow of forty (40) liters per minute.
• May be subject to functioning and making decisions in high-stress situations involving potentially life-threatening conditions related to patient(s).
• Ability to coordinate eyes, hands, feet and limbs in performing skilled movements.
• Ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities and differences between characteristics of colors, shapes and textures associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus, and the ability to sustain prolonged visual concentration.

• The noise level in the office work environment is moderately quiet, noise level may be loud at times due to working at a fire scene or responding to an EMS call.
• May be exposed to traffic, equipment, fire hazards, extreme heat and cold, smoke, carcinogens, bio-hazards, adverse weather conditions, noise extremes, dusts, odors, toxins, caustic chemicals, pathogenic substances.
• Subject to unusual fatigue, high stress from irregular working hours and incident call activity.
• May be subject to deprived sleeping conditions if working/staffing overnight shifts.
• Work may be performed in high, precarious places, confined and awkward spaces or in high traffic areas.
• Work is performed indoor and outdoor.
• May be subject to operate in situations/environments involving biohazard fluids/substances, sick/ill/injured individuals, and/or otherwise hazardous environments requiring additional personal protective equipment (PPE) or body substance isolation (BSI).
• Faces exposure to infectious agents, such as hepatitis B or HIV.
• May be subject to working in smaller or cramped spaces, including (but not limited to) inside vehicles, small rooms, ambulances, or other semi-confined spaces.
• May be subject to functioning in inclement/excessive weather conditions.

Work is performed under the general supervision of the Fire Chief and Assigned Officers.