Fire Protection Inspector (BLS/Hazmat Technician)

Job Duties: Conduct inspections of all installation grounds and facilities for violations of fire regulations and codes. Maintain daily surveillance over conditions impacted by receipt and shipping of hazardous materials or changes in the storage locations. Review and inspect installation operations such as receiving, storing and shipping as well as various industrial processes such as welding and painting utilized in the repair and maintenance of vehicles, equipment and facilities. Review plans for construction or renovation of property to ensure that facilities engineering, contractors and other parties involved follow fire code and regulations when installing or modifying fire protection and suppression equipment. Provide Basic Life Support to patients pre-hospital environment; cardiopulmonary resuscitation, automatic external defibrillation, records, patient's vital signs temperature, respirations, blood pressure, pulse to determine patient priority. Serve as a fully trained hazardous materials technician of the Fire Department Hazardous Materials Response Team and respond to spills and releases for the purpose of control, containment and confinement. Perform hazard and risk assessment techniques in completing initial incident analysis. Survey the incident to identify materials involved, determines whether hazardous materials have been released, evaluate surrounding conditions; and predict the likely behavior of a material and/or container. On an as needed basis, serves as a firefighter performing work to control and extinguish fires, rescue persons endangered by fire and reduce or eliminate potential fire hazards.