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FIRE SAFETY OFFICER - MPA3

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$80K - $93K/yr

... ventilation systems to prevent smoke spread in confined housing areas. • Oversee fire safety ... Conducts operational research, productivity analyses and management studies to assist in the ...

Hospitalist Physician Assistant

Gaylord, MI

$90K - $122K/yr

Ventilator Management Required (training and proctoring available) * Michigan License and DEA ... Dedicated Chief Wellness Officer and wellness programming for clinicians * Established, respected ...

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How much do assistant ventilation officer jobs pay per year?

As of Jun 16, 2026, the average yearly pay for assistant ventilation officer in the United States is $82,146.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $54,500.00 and $100,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an Assistant Ventilation Officer, and why are they important?

To thrive as an Assistant Ventilation Officer, you need knowledge of ventilation systems, HVAC principles, and relevant safety standards, often supported by a technical diploma or certification in mechanical or building services engineering. Familiarity with tools such as airflow meters, CAD software, and building management systems is typically required. Strong attention to detail, teamwork, and effective communication help ensure safe and efficient operations. These skills are crucial for maintaining air quality, regulatory compliance, and the overall safety of building occupants.

What is the difference between Assistant Ventilation Officer vs HVAC Technician?

AspectAssistant Ventilation OfficerHVAC Technician
CredentialsCertifications in ventilation systems, safety trainingHVAC certifications, technical diplomas
Work EnvironmentConstruction sites, industrial facilities, building inspectionsMechanical rooms, maintenance sites, installation projects
Employer & IndustryConstruction companies, building management, industrial firmsHVAC service companies, maintenance firms, manufacturing plants

Both roles involve working with ventilation and HVAC systems, but the Assistant Ventilation Officer typically focuses on overseeing ventilation compliance and inspections, while the HVAC Technician handles installation, repair, and maintenance of HVAC equipment. The Assistant Ventilation Officer often works in supervisory or inspection roles, whereas HVAC Technicians are more hands-on with technical tasks.

What are the main challenges an Assistant Ventilation Officer might face when maintaining safe airflow in mining operations?

Assistant Ventilation Officers often encounter challenges such as monitoring and adjusting airflow in response to changing mining activities, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and quickly identifying potential hazards like gas build-ups or equipment malfunctions. The work typically involves collaborating closely with engineers, safety officers, and miners to implement ventilation plans and conduct regular inspections. Staying updated on new technologies and best practices is also important to effectively address issues and support a safe work environment.

What are Assistant Ventilation Officers?

Assistant Ventilation Officers are professionals who support the maintenance, operation, and monitoring of ventilation systems in buildings, tunnels, ships, or other environments where air quality and circulation are critical. They assist senior ventilation officers in ensuring that all equipment functions correctly, comply with safety standards, and perform regular inspections and repairs as needed. Their role is particularly important in industries like mining, maritime, and construction, where proper ventilation is vital for safety and health. Assistant Ventilation Officers may also help in documenting maintenance activities and implementing emergency procedures related to air quality.
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Infographic showing various Assistant Ventilation Officer job openings in the United States as of June 2026, with employment types broken down into 94% Full Time, 5% Part Time, and 1% Temporary. Highlights an 98% Physical, 1% Hybrid, and 1% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $82,146 per year, or $39.5 per hour.

Physician Assistant/APRN - CVICU - Hartford, CT

Connecticut Children's

Hartford, CT • On-site

Full-time

Posted 23 days ago


Connecticut Children's Medical Center rating

7.6

Company rating: 7.6 out of 10

Based on 44 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

239th of 999 rated hospitals


Job description

Job Description
Completes thorough but appropriately focused evaluations of pediatric patients (from neonates to adolescents and young adults), including competent and age appropriate histories and examinations. Identifies level of illness severity in a timely manner. Presents thoughtful assessments to the supervising physician and works towards prescribing necessary care plans. Performs appropriate procedures under their responsibility with the appropriate guidance. Knows when and how to seek assistance.
Responsibilities
Cardiac Critical Care includes the knowledge and skills to diagnose and manage children with life threatening illnesses and injuries. These include conditions that cause respiratory, circulatory, neurologic, renal or hepatic failure, severe infectious, hematologic, or immune disorders, and poisoning. In addition, privileges include care of children needing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, stabilization during transport, complex pre- and post-operative care.
A list of specific core management modalities used by the critical care APP includes, but is not limited to (with supervision of CVICU attending, PICU attending, Cardiology attending, and CT Surgery attending):
  • Application and regulation of extracorporeal respiratory, renal, and circulatory assist devices (ECCS, ECMO, LVAD)
  • Application of cardiac output monitoring
  • Application of respiratory therapy
  • Anticoagulation
  • Bag mask ventilation
  • Elective and emergency management of the difficult airway including use of LMA (laryngeal mask airway), lightwand stylet, flexible scope, obturator airway and other techniques
  • Enteral nutrition
  • Brain protective strategies using medications, osmolar agents, temperature regulation, and ventilation-
  • Interpretation of continuous EEG monitoring
  • Interpretation and management of acid base disturbance
  • Interpretation and management of fluid, electrolyte, and metabolic abnormalities
  • Interpretation of blood gases
  • Interpretation of electrocardiogram and echocardiogram
  • Interpretation of intracranial pressure monitoring, and management of intracranial pressure abnormalities
  • Interpretation of vascular and cardiac chamber pressure measurement
  • Medical management of patients during intra and interhospital transport
  • Medical modulation of the autonomic nervous system
  • Parenteral nutrition
  • Respiratory support weaning techniques
  • Thrombolytic therapy
  • Tracheal intubation (oral and nasotracheal, emergency perlaryngeal)
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Use of blood component therapy
  • Use of inotropes, vasoconstrictors, vasodilators
  • Use of mechanical ventilation, positive end-expiratory pressure, and continuous position airway pressure
  • Use of medications to promote a brief or prolonged state of analgesia, anxiolysis, moderate or deep sedation, or emergency and non-emergency general anesthesia
  • Use, zeroing, and calibration of transducers, use of amplifiers and recorders of physiologic parameters

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures include:
  • Application of hypothermic therapy
  • Arterial puncture
  • Emergency cardiac pacemaker insertion and application
  • Emergency cardioversion, defibrillation, transcutaneous pacing
  • Exchange transfusion
  • Insertion arterial catheters
  • Insertion of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis catheters
  • Insertion peripheral and central venous catheters
  • Insertion pulmonary artery catheter
  • Insertion of umbilical catheters
  • Interpretation of respiratory mechanics studies tests
  • Laryngoscopy
  • Lumbar puncture
  • Needle and tube thoracostomy
  • Paracentesis
  • Point of Care Ultrasound for the insertion of vascular catheters, pericardiocentesis, thoracentesis and paracentesis
  • Thoracentesis

Consultations and care for adults 21 years of age and over with congenital cardiac anomalies (as approved by the Hospital CMO and Leadership
Perinatal and fetal consultations for congenital cardiac anomalies.
FPPE Guidelines
  • Concurrent observation of one-week on-service/on-call rotation by an Active member of the Department.
  • Peer review through the departmental quality assessment activities

Criteria for Reappointment
  • Documentation confirming CME activity during the past 24 months consistent with state licensing requirement.
  • Provide proof and maintain current ACLS, PALS and BLS
  • Sedation
  • Sedation is considered a core privilege of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine under the guidelines established in Connecticut Children's Policy: Procedural Sedation
  • Privileges for sedation must be requested separately by all physicians and Advanced Practice Providers with clinical privileges in the CVICU per Connecticut Children's Medical Executive Committee. It is expected that practitioners requesting privileges in the CVICU request such privileges.
  • Ongoing review for safety and quality as determined by Chief, Cardiac Critical Care and outcome reporting through Enterprise Quality and Safety Office will be required to ensure quality of care and best outcomes.
  • Advanced Airway Management
  • Participation in Operating Room or simulation-based airway management experience regularly OR successful management of actual patients requiring advanced airway management up to and including endotracheal intubation in accordance with Connecticut Children's policy.

Medical knowledge
  • Clinical knowledge. With guidance, applies basic medical knowledge to common diagnoses in department. Expands clinical knowledge by asking insightful questions, seeking knowledge independently and reading medical literature critically. Incorporates issues of child health advocacy, preventive health care, ethical dilemmas, and cost of tests and therapies.
  • Diagnostic evaluation. Provides basic evaluation (e.g., diagnostic testing and consultation) for common diagnoses. Increasingly recommends broad evaluation based on an unfocused differential diagnosis. Reports results of diagnostic studies, identifying clinically significant results with guidance.

Patient history. Gathers patient information following a template. Adapts the template with guidance and as appropriate to filter and prioritize pertinent positives and negatives based on broad diagnostic categories or possible diagnoses.
Patient care
  • Clinical reasoning. Presents clinical facts (e.g., history, exam, tests, consultations, etc.) to preceptor, supervising physician, and care team. Ultimately generates an unfocused differential diagnosis based on the clinical facts.
  • Organize and prioritize patient care. Completes assigned patient care responsibilities focused on individual patients.
  • Patient management. Increasingly participates in the creation of patient management plans. Discusses plans with patients/families.

Interpersonal and communication
  • Patient and family centered communications. Works to establish rapport with patients/families. Develops therapeutic relationship in straightforward encounters. Seeks guidance when adjusting communication strategies in order to mitigate barriers and meet patient/family expectations.
  • Interpersonal and team communication. Participates within the inter-professional team. With guidance, clearly and appropriately requests consultation, presenting relevant patient information to supervising physician.
  • Communication within the Health Care System. Accurately and timely records information in the patient record. Responds in a timely fashion and in appropriate form (e.g., in-person, HER, telephone, email) to requests. Seeks guidance on best mode of communicating when uncertain.

Practice-based learning and improvement
  • Evidence-based and informed practice. Develops and articulates clinical questions. Accesses available evidence with appropriate guidance.
  • Reflective practice and commitment to personal growth. Participates in feedback sessions. With guidance from lead/manager, develops professional goals and a learning plan, incorporating feedback and performance data.

Professionalism
  • Performs responsibilities in a thorough and timely manner. Proactively seeks guidance in new, complex and/or stressful situations.
  • Participates in creating, promoting and sustaining a healthy and productive team and work environment. Familiarizes self with institutional resources that are meant to promote well-being.

System-based practice
  • System navigation for patient centered care-coordination of care. Increasingly involved in coordinating care of patients in routine clinical situations. Identifies the need for and engages inter-professional team based on patient and family needs.
  • Population and community health. Incorporates awareness of population and community health needs and disparities and knowledge of local resources to inform understanding of patient/family health concerns.

Qualifications
Minimum education (degree/type of degree).
  • Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner: Graduate degree in nursing accredited by one of the national certifying bodies in nursing. (Or, on or before December 31, 2004, completion of an advanced nurse practitioner program recognized by a national certifying body for certification as a nurse practitioner.)

Or...
  • Physician Assistant: Graduation from a physician assistant program accredited, at the time of graduation, by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA).

License and/or Certification
Required:
At time of hire and maintenance at time of appointment or privilege approval:
  • Provider licensing:
    • Current State of Connecticut (Pediatric) Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) licensure. OR...
    • Certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, Inc. (NCCPA). Current State of Connecticut Physician Assistant licensure.

Additionally:
  • Depending on privileges for role, Basic Life Support (BLS) and/or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification may be required.
  • Depending on privileges for role, federal DEA and CT controlled substance registration may be required.
  • Certain specialties may require additional certifications.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Medical knowledge and procedures:
    • Medical knowledge sufficient to recognize patterns, trends and disease traits and to fully engage in APP learning opportunities, effectively applying such knowledge to basic clinical evaluations and patient care.
  • Communication:
    • Exemplary written and verbal communication.
  • Interpersonal:

Respectful and compassionate in interactions with staff, patients, and families.
About Us
Connecticut Children's is the only health system in Connecticut that is 100% dedicated to children. Established on a legacy that spans more than 100 years, Connecticut Children's offers personalized medical care in more than 30 pediatric specialties across Connecticut and in two other states. Our transformational growth establishes us as a destination for specialized medicine and enables us to reach more children in locations that are closer to home. Our breakthrough research, superior education and training, innovative community partnerships, and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion provide a welcoming and inspiring environment for our patients, families and team members.
At Connecticut Children's, treating children isn't just our job - it's our passion. As a leading children's health system experiencing steady growth, we're excited to expand our team with exceptional team members who share our vision of transforming children's health and well-being as one team.

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