FIREFIGHTER (PARAMEDIC)

FIREFIGHTER (PARAMEDIC)

Department: Department of the Navy

Location(s): Camp Pendleton, California

Salary Range: $63835 - $91664 Per Year

Job Summary: This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

Major Duties:

• You will administer multiple established emergency medicine techniques to minimize life threatening conditions.
• You will maintain care of emergency equipment (e.g., backboards, suction devices, splints, stretchers, oxygen delivery systems, monitoring equipment, specialized kits and bags) to ensure safety upon treating patients.
• You will assess a patient systematically to identify the nature, extent, and seriousness of the patient's condition.
• You will provide invasive airway procedures (e.g., needle or surgical cricothyrotomy, pleural decompression, endotracheal intubation, nasal intubation) to establish an airway during life threatening situations.
• You will participate in daily training/ instruction covering all phases of fire protection and prevention.
• You will periodically perform as a member of swift water rescue, confined space rescue, dive rescue and boat teams or providing direct support as part of the overall effort.
• You will perform routine maintenance of fire pumps, ladders, fire hoses and specialized tools/equipment used on assigned apparatus, as well as routine care and maintenance of ambulances.
• You will perform fire prevention/protection inspection duties to include maintenance of fire extinguishing systems.

Qualifications: GS-08: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Providing emergency medical response and treatment (e.g., Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR); basic, intermediate, and advanced life support (ALS); airway management, emergency childbirth, mass casualty triage), rescue operations (e.g., high and low angle rescue, trench confined space rescue, auto extrication) and transporting emergency personnel and patients safely to emergency room. GS-09: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-08 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Performing and providing structural and wild land firefighting, emergency medical response and treatment (e.g., Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR); basic, intermediate, and advanced life support (ALS); airway management, emergency childbirth, mass casualty triage), rescue operations (e.g., high and low angle rescue, trench confined space rescue, auto extrication), hazardous materials response, responding to airfield and aircraft emergencies, and transporting emergency personnel and patients safely to emergency room. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0000/fire-protection-and-prevention-series-0081/ A copy of your certificates MUST be submitted with your resume. Failure to provide the required documents will render you not eligible for consideration.

How to Apply: Interested Applicants must submit resumes/application packages to: Christopher Hubmer christopher.hubmer@usmc.mil Applicants must put the announcement number of this position in the subject line of the application email. Facsimile applications will not be considered. All resumes/applications must be received no later than the close date of this flyer. Resumes are restricted to no more than 2 pages. Illegible/unreadable resumes will not be considered. It is the applicant's responsibility to verify that all information in their resume and documents, are received, legible, and accurate. HR will not modify answers/documents submitted by an applicant. Failure to submit a complete application package will result in an ineligible rating and loss of consideration.

Application Deadline: 2026-03-27