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DuPont is immediately hiring Emergency Response Team Members at Spruance, VA site!
The Emergency Response Team serves as a team member to carry out fire suppression and technical rescue, medical emergency response, fire prevention and hazardous material emergency response activities. The Emergency Response Team also performs various maintenance activities on fire equipment and fire station facilities.
WORKING SCHEDULE: 24 hours on 48 hours off A, B, C Shifts
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Responds to emergency and non-emergency situations including fires, medical injuries and illness; hazardous materials spills; technical rescues such as river, trench, rope rescues, confined space auto, extrication; false alarms; flooding; and other situations, and carries out specific assigned duties such as connecting hoses, operating equipment, emergency vehicle driving and operation, positioning ladders, rescuing victims, and providing basic life support care as allowed as an EMT.

• Fire Suppression: Extinguishing fires, using specialized equipment and techniques for industrial settings.
• Emergency Response: Responding to various emergencies, including hazardous material spills and other incidents.
• Hazard Mitigation: Identifying and mitigating potential hazards to prevent incidents.
• Rescue Operations: Conducting rescue operations for personnel trapped or injured in emergencies.
• Safety Training: Educating employees on fire safety procedures and emergency protocols.
• Equipment Maintenance: Maintaining firefighting equipment and ensuring its readiness.
• Pre-Incident Planning: Participating in pre-incident planning and risk assessments for industrial facilities.
• Emergency Medical Response: Respond to all medical emergencies on site. Treat, package and prepare patients for transport if needed.
• Conduct fire prevention inspections of buildings requiring application of national fire codes and corporate standards. Works independently or as part of a team. Establishes relationship with building managers to effectively communicate fire codes and safety procedures. Identifies deficiencies, completes appropriate paperwork, references fire codes and notes explanations for property owners.
• Initiates corrective action according to established procedures.
• Creates rough drawings for every structure investigated and submits these to office staff to input into computer system.
• Conducts follow-up inspections and forwards violations Fire Chief or area leadership.
• Maintains equipment in a state of readiness and performs maintenance to prolong the useful life of expensive equipment.
• Perform routine checks of equipment such as generators and air compressors, and records condition.
• Performs general fire station building and grounds maintenance as required.
• Performs routine maintenance of equipment, hoses, hand tools and specialized equipment.
• Maintains personal protective gear and requests replacements when the functionality of equipment is compromised.
• Participants in and/or conduct training exercises, demonstrations and instructions to prepare for emergency situations.
• Provides on-the-job training, mentoring, and some work directions to new firefighters.
• Trains peers on any specialized training received.
• Performs public relations and education activities.
• Conduct fire stations tours.
• Communicates courteously and professionally and maintains working relationships with others in carrying out job functions.
• Frequently interacts with others in the work unit, the Spruance site employees, public, vendors or across departments to exchange detailed and/or technical information.
• Works safely, follows safe work practices, and identifies and reports unsafe work conditions.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.
• ERT members will inspect, preplan and sign off on all confined space work prior to work starting.
• ERT members will respond and assist with any onsite blood borne pathogen cleanup and disposal.
• Complete all daily, weekly and monthly fire apparatus checks.
• Ensure all apparatus and equipment is clean and ready to use.
• Ensure fire houses are clean and ready to use at all times.
• Complete all corporate and site training requirements i.e. I-Learn and WEBMOC documents.
• Complete monthly required fire and EMS training.
• Site fire and life safety audits.
• Fire extinguisher inspections
• Site emergency response pre-plan updates.
• Update site emergency response procedures.
• Assist areas with PHA's, MOC or anything needing fire resources.
• Train with outside Fire/EMS resources so things will go smooth in the event of emergency.
• Perform hose testing on all hoses in use and in storage.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Valid Virginia driver's license
• Virginia Department of Fire Programs or Pro Board-certified Firefighter I, and II. (Current)
• Commonwealth of Virginia/ National Register Emergency Medical Technician (Current)
• Technical Rescue/Confined Space Operations Level (Current)
• Hazardous Materials Operations Level (Current)
• Current CPR
• Class III EVOC (Current)
• Must pass background investigation and pass medical and drug screening.
• Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships with peers, superiors, vendors, contractors, external government agencies and organizations.
• Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing.
• Must be clean, shaven and able to pass required fit test.

Physical and Mental Demands:
Work involves response to unpredictable emergency situations for prolonged periods of extreme physical exertion without benefit of warm-up, scheduled rest periods, meals, access to medications, or hydration. While at emergency scenes, incumbents may have exposure to injury, trauma, blood-borne pathogens, traffic accidents, and visual and emotional trauma. Incumbents are required to take appropriate safety precautions and wear protective equipment. While wearing personal protective equipment, including SCBA, perform firefighting tasks (e.g. hoseline operations, extensive crawling, lifting and carrying heavy objects, ventilating roofs or walls using power or hand tools, forcible entry), rescue operations, and other emergency response actions under stressful conditions including working in extremely hot or cold environments for prolonged time periods. While wearing personal protective equipment, including SCBA incumbents must be able to stand, climb ladders, balance, kneel, stoop, crouch, crawl and reach; to walk or run on uneven surfaces; and to drag up to 200 pounds for a distance of 50 feet. There is fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, listening, hearing/listening, seeing/observing, occasional lifting, pushing or pulling of up to 100 pounds, frequent lifting, pushing or pulling of up to 50 pounds and regular moving of objects up to 20 pounds. Moderate attention to detail and deadlines is required in completing reports and paperwork
WORKING ENVIRONMENT
There is regular exposure to very disagreeable working conditions such as fumes, fire, smoke, extreme weather conditions including ice, snow, extreme high and low temperatures, humidity, rain, dirt, mud. The work involves exposure to hazardous conditions such as toxic chemicals, slippery conditions, working in traffic areas and adverse road conditions. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those individual encounters while performing the essential functions of this position.
Physical & Mental Requirements

• Ability to pass annual physical fitness assessments.
• Psychological resilience and stress management capabilities.
• Drug-free and clear criminal background check.

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