Firefighter (734783)

**Job Title**:Firefighter **PP-SRS-GRD**:S-0081-06
**Location**:RAF Alconbury/ Molesworth **Vacancy Number**:734783
**Open Date**:10 February 2025 **Close Date**:17 February 2025

**Work Hour Per Week**: 192 hours 15% Firefighter supplement = £14.93 - £17.58 + 15% Firefighter supplement = £20.22

We are currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join a premier team of Firefighters at the 423rd Civil Engineering Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF) Alconbury, United Kingdom.

**What will be your primary role?**

You will be responsible for performing structural firefighting duties for a variety of facilities, which may include large multi-storied buildings, industrial areas, and/or base storage facilities as well as hazard and risk assessment techniques in completing initial incident analysis, driving and operating firefighting vehicles, such as pumpers and aerial ladder trucks. As part of the role, you will perform rescue of personnel and a variety of first aid measures to alleviate further injury and prepare the victim(s) for transport to a medical facility. You will maintain firefighting equipment and fire station facilities and comply with health, safety, and environmental rules and procedures performing work in a manner that enhances the safety of the work environment. In addition, you will perform dispatching duties within the Fire Alarm and Communications Center (FACC) as directed, receiving emergency and routine calls, dispatching equipment to emergencies and making all notifications and requests. Your hours of work will be 192 hours over a 4-week period on an as rostered schedule (this will be working any 5 days out of 7) where start & end times may be modified due to mission needs and in accordance with the organization’s flexible working policies. You will be required to pass and maintain a pre-employment Firefighter physical which must be renewed annually. The position requires your ability to discern colors, contrast, and depth. This position is located at RAF Alconbury, but the incumbent may be required to work at the RAF Molesworth Fire station when directed by management.

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**We offer fantastic company benefits include**:

- **Competitive salary**:the starting salary for this position is £12.98 + 15%

Operational Firefighter supplement totaling **£14.93 an hour.**
- **Holiday**:Annual Leave
- **Paid Sick Leave**
- **Pension Scheme**
- **Free On-Site Parking**
- **Employee extras such as**:Life Assurance scheme, Employee Assistance Program, Specialized Training, Development Opportunities, Fitness Facilities, Receive time off, cash, and honorary awards for significant contributions

**Why the US Air Force/Royal Air Force civilian employment?**

U.S. Air Forces in Europe - United Kingdom (USAFE-UK), a forward detachment of USAFE, is headquartered at RAF Mildenhall, England a premier employer of over 1,200 local national employees with a right to work in the United Kingdom. Our jobs ranging from Administrative; Logistics; Trade and Labor (Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioning (HVAC), electrician, plumbers, and general Maintenance); Civil Engineers, Lawyers, Doctors and Administrative and Management positions. The organization further serves as the focal point for overseas negotiations with His Majesty's government on a wide range of issues. Our team is dedicated to excellence, innovation, and the highest standards of operational readiness.

The 501st Combat Support Wing tracks its lineage back to the 501st Bombardment Group, which was activated June 1, 1944, at Dalhart Army Airfield, Texas. Almost 2,000 Airmen serving one wing with two groups, 14 squadrons, and 17 wing staff agencies. The 501st serves a community of more than 14,000 personnel spread across ten installations. The 501st CSW remains the only combat support wing in the USAF and carries on its storied heritage of generating combat missions around the globe and projecting diplomacy through its ten geographically separated locations across the United Kingdom, Norway and Cyprus. 501st Combat Support Wing Locations: RAF Croughton, RAF Fairford, RAF Welford, Blenheim Crescent, RAF Alconbury, RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Molesworth, and Stavanger, Norway. The United States and the United Kingdom share a special bond nurtured over decades of commitment to our shared values of peace, security and prosperity. The depth of the US and the UK partnership will only grow as together we face the increasingly complex, high-end threats of today and tomorrow.

**What are the Key Skills required for this role?**

1. Knowledge of basic and specialized structural firefighting equipment (fire alarm system operation, fire extinguishing equipment operation, etc.), techniques, and procedures; of basic and specialized building design, construction, and occupancy; to drive