Firefighter

**Barrow-in-Furness**

**Submarines**

**Safety, health and environment**

**Experienced professionals**

Job Title: Firefighter

Location: Barrow-in-Furness.

Salary - Competitive + shift allowance

What you’ll be doing:

- Responding immediately and safely to emergency calls and requests for assistance
- Attending emergency incidents including fires, medical, road accidents, floods, terrorist incidents, spillages of dangerous substances and air crashes
- Rescuing trapped people
- Minimising distress and suffering, including providing trauma care
- Always Safeguarding your own and other people’s personal safety
- Cleaning up and checking the site after dealing with an incident
- Taking time to become familiar with on-site buildings and hazards so you can respond to emergency calls with speed and efficiency
- Maintaining and testing the appliance (fire engine) and its equipment
- Undertaking scenario-based exercises and core skill training as part of your development and maintenance of operations competence
- Maintaining the level of physical fitness necessary to carry out all the duties as a firefighter
- Educating and informing employees to promote fire safety

Your skills and experiences:
Essential:

- Local Authority Fire & Rescue Service Competent Firefighter
- Physically fit and able to undertake practical selection tests (including achieving 8.8 in the Bleep Test & UK Fire Service Fire-Ground Fitness Test) prior to interview

Desirable:

- HGV Class C Licence
- Emergency Fire Service Operations in the Community - NVQ Level 3

**Benefits**:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Firefighter Team:
Working as a BAE Systems Submarines Firefighter you will carry out a diverse range of fire safety and rescue activities contributing towards the safety of staff and the building on our Nuclear Submarines.7

The role will provide you with a unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing team offering a wide range of in-house development as well as recognised further education. You will have the opportunity to progress your career into the Crew Commander and Watch Commander roles.

Why BAE Systems?

Closing Date: 4th September 2023

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