FIRE SERVICE INSTRUCTOR 2 - 04092024-56756

Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE, FIRE SERVICE AND CODES ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY DIVISION, BEDFORD, TN

Qualifications

Summary

Responsibilities

1. Inspects equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects by utilizing established national standards.

1. Drags or pulls fallen students to safety in emergency situations.
2. Performs physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, and stooping.
3. Lifts students up and out of confined spaces to instructors above.

1. Evaluates systems safety checks to ensure compliance with national standards or recognized practice.
2. Evaluates training curriculum to ensure that most recent national standards are incorporated into the material.

1. Leads students through hazardous live fire and rescue training scenarios that may involve fire suppression, elevated heat levels, high angle rappelling, water rescue, or confined spaces.
2. Coordinates activities of safety officers, Academy instructors, and part-time or contract instructors involved in team training to ensure policies and standards for live fire training requirements are met.
3. May supervise staff in absence of Fire Service Instructor Supervisor.

1. Operates a variety of firefighting equipment effectively and safely.

1. Enters low visibility, high noise live fire scenarios with students and provides instant feedback using radios, verbal, and physical gestures to quickly extinguish fires.
2. Communicates ideas, suggestions and concerns as student's progress in the learning process.

1. Administers medical attention to students injured during training exercises.
2. Provides emotional support and coaching to students as needed.

1. Establishes relationships with internal and external customers and staff through modeling and demonstrating high standards of integrity, trust, openness, and respect for others, honoring commitments and promises, and maintaining confidentiality.

1. Operates fire and emergency services vehicles and watercraft.
2. Operates motor vehicle in the performance of job duties.

1. Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among students and staff.

1. Adapts behavior or teaching methods in response to new information, changing conditions or unexpected obstacles or student feedback.

1. Enforces all Academy safety standards and policies.
2. Requires that part time instructors deliver class documentation and prepare payroll within required timeframe.
3. Makes decision on whether or not instructor substitutions are made according to policies and guidelines.

1. Demonstrates how to perform a rescue by carrying or dragging a person away from danger.
2. Instructs students in technical fire service areas utilizing multiple teaching methods and techniques.
3. Lectures in a classroom setting and conducts hands-on lab demonstrations.
4. Demonstrates and wears protective firefighter clothing including self-contained breathing apparatus.
5. Conducts training programs and activities on or off campus.
6. Writes lesson plans related to fire-fighting theory and techniques, fire pump and other equipment service and maintenance, and methods for first aid and rescue to achieve goals of learning objectives.
7. Develops instructional tools if packaged materials or textbooks are unavailable.
8. Instructs on how to use, maintain, and repair equipment.
9. Conducts train the trainer classes for approved academy instructors.
10. Identifies topics for training based upon fire service standards and industry demands, available resources, requests for assistance, and mandates.

1. Obtains information from supervisor as it relates to training materials, student information, class assignments, and resources available for the class.
2. Obtains information from printed materials, social media and the internet as it relates to training materials, student information, class assignments, and resources available for the class.

1. Identifies safety hazards prior to training to ensure the safety of the students and instructors.
2. Identifies and obtains all material necessary for conducting a class to meet specific learning objectives.
3. Identifies student's needs by evaluating their test scores, demeanor, attitude, and physical and mental abilities.
4. Identifies training needs and concerns that fire service professionals are having.

1. Lifts heavy objects and carries equipment during fire ground evolutions.
2. Loads and unloads class materials, audio visual equipment and display materials.

1. Develops and administers oral, written and performance tests to measure students' achievement of specified learning objectives.
2. Observes and records scores and results of written or observed tests.
3. Grades tests using answer sheet or checklist.

1. Demonstrates cross culture sensitivity and understanding.
2. Identifies and seeks to solve problems and prevent or resolve conflict situations.

1. Monitors performance of part-time instructors to ensure that classes are being taught to national standards.

1. Monitors equipment (e.g. apparatus, hand tools, burn facilities, training props and safety devices) and evolutions to ensure the safety of self and others.
2. Monitors the weather and reacts accordingly when inclement weather is approaching.
3. Reviews student evaluations in order to determine training needs and trends of the fire service training atmosphere.
4. Monitors injury and line of duty deaths to adjust training curriculum to reduce said injuries and deaths.

1. Conducts risk analysis, tracking injuries, near misses, property damage, or line of duty deaths to address training needs.

1. Secures tests and grades from being compromised and ensuring that personal information is not disclosed.
2. Processes Academy reports and records by transporting them and ensuring that they are complete and accurate.
3. Completes all course-related forms and paperwork including safety reports, student registration or attendance forms, scheduling forms, and requests for equipment.
4. Reports time, leave, travel requests, and expense report into appropriate database.

1. Schedules training class and informs other instructors of time, location, and class content.
2. Schedules specific time and place of class using Academy instructor policies and procedures.

1. Develops plan to achieve performance requirements necessary for students to successfully perform their jobs or to meet certification requirements.
2. Coordinates specific program area on or off campus in firefighting, fire equipment or technical fire services.

1. Performs necessary duties to setup and return to service all equipment and training devices used for classes.

1. Documents students' records and class records to show that all Academy, accreditation, and legal requirements have been met.
2. Documents any injuries or illnesses occurring during training activities.
3. Documents and reports lost or damaged equipment.

1. Estimates number of instructors needed to meet scheduling demands of classes according to student to instructor ratio and other factors.
2. Determines type and quantity of instruction materials prior to conducting training.
3. Determines class location by evaluating size and environment to ensure conduciveness to learning.

1. Utilizes driving simulator for the instruction and monitoring students.
2. Utilizes student management system to retrieve and update information as it relates to classes taken, test scores, attendance, and other relevant information.
3. Utilizes office productivity software such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Access.
4. Utilizes laptops and tablets to deliver class material.

1. Answers technical questions from interested parties.
2. Asks appropriate questions to gain more information from the public or customer to interpret their needs.
3. Provides training schedules to outside agencies.

1. Participates in continuing education and in-service activities as required.
2. Attends training seminars and conferences designed to enhance the understanding and application and development of emergency response techniques.

1. Interprets information for internal and external customers related to national standards and generally accepted practices.

1. Maintains proper student to instructor ratio in order to remain within budgetary constraints.

1. Fills in for or assists other instructors with their classes.
2. Updates supervisors regularly on status of classes and or needs of the training program.
3. Reports problems outside the scope of their position to assigned supervisor in a timely manner.
4. Receives updates from subordinate instructors regarding the status of classes and or needs of the training program.
5. Relays information and share materials from seminars regarding fire service technical advances and new procedures to Academy staff and administration.

1. Provides feedback on decisions and recommendations regarding staff employment, promotion, demotion, transfer, retention and other personnel issues are fair and appropriate.

1. Tabulates course data such as student surveys, test results, grades, and progress reports.
2. Calculates student contract hours in order to address areas with low hours.

1. Provides reports to training officers or chiefs detailing progress of recruits.

1. Assists State Fire Marshal's Office in public relations and other public education activities and potential lifesaving activities.
2. Recruits from fire chiefs, training officers, and fire service or protection officials and field constituents.
3. Promotes and explains Academy training programs to customers or potential customers.

1. Performs necessary duties to setup and return to service all equipment and training devices used for classes.

Competencies

Competencies:

1. Ethics and Values
2. Integrity and Trust
3. Customer Focus
4. Command Skills
5. Decision Quality
6. Planning
7. Action Oriented
8. Presentation Skills
9. Directing Others
10. Perspective

1. Basic knowledge of fire service machines and tools
2. Intermediate knowledge of education and training
3. Intermediate knowledge of fire science
4. Knowledge of customer service principles
5. Knowledge of administration and management as it relates to the coordination of others and planning
6. Intermediate knowledge of building construction principles
7. Knowledge of office productivity software such as Microsoft word, excel, PowerPoint, and access
8. Knowledge of presentation techniques incorporating various kinds of media production
9. Basic knowledge of mathematics
10. Basic knowledge of law and government

1. Intermediate Instruction Skills
2. Judgment and Decision Making Skills
3. Active Listening Skills
4. Skill to assess the performance of others
5. Management of Material Resources Skills
6. Speaking Skills
7. Management of Personnel Resources Skills
8. Critical Thinking Skills
9. Learning Strategies
10. Reading Comprehension
11. Operation Monitoring Skills
12. Writing Skills
13. Skill to inspect products and processes in order to evaluate its quality or performance
14. Time Management Skills
15. Persuasion Skills
16. Intermediate Social Perceptiveness Skills
17. Negotiation Skills

1. Deductive Reasoning Ability
2. Ability to retain information as it relates to policies, procedures and codes
3. Oral Comprehension
4. Oral Expression
5. Originality
6. Problem Sensitivity
7. Spatial Orientation Ability
8. Time Sharing Ability
9. Ability to Pick Up On Nonverbal Body Language and React Accordingly
10. Written Comprehension
11. Written Expression
12. Control Precision Ability
13. Manual Dexterity Ability
14. Multi Limb Coordination
15. Reaction Time
16. Dynamic Flexibility Ability
17. Dynamic Strength
18. Extent Flexibility
19. Gross Body Equilibrium
20. Stamina
21. Static Strength
22. Trunk Strength
23. Auditory Attention
24. Depth Perception
25. Hearing Sensitivity
26. Night Vision
27. Far Vision
28. Near Vision
29. Peripheral Vision
30. Sound Localization
31. Speech Clarity
32. Speech Recognition

Tools & Equipment

1. Laptop
2. Copier
3. Presentation Equipment
4. Saws
5. Breathing Apparatus
6. Hand Tools
7. Hydraulic Extrication Equipment
8. Ladders
9. Belts
10. Fire Truck
11. Fire Hose & Nozzle
12. Thermal Imaging Camera
13. Portable Radio
14. Multi Media
15. Air Monitoring Equipment
16. Ropes
17. Medical Equipment

TN Driver Standards

State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:

• A valid driver's license
• For the past five years, the candidate's driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations.

Please include your Driver's License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.

**Agencies may allow an exception based on other factors.