Description
Being a WEP firefighter provides knowledge and experience that fire departments look for in new recruits. This challenging and rewarding opportunity offers you the ability to maintain and enhance your previously acquired skills while responding to emergencies or performing required station duties.
The Town of Creston is located in the southeast corner of British Columbia in the Kootenays along the Canada / United States border. It is approximately 5 hours away from Calgary and 8 hours away from Vancouver. In its proximity there are other centers such as Cranbrook, Trail, Nelson and Castlegar within an hour and Spokane, Washington is approximately 2.5 hours southwest.
The Creston Valley is supported by a diverse economic base including Columbia Brewery, agriculture, forest industry and tourism. Kootenay Lake is 25 km north of town offering recreational opportunities with the Kootenay region having some of the best skiing in British Columbia only a short distance away.
Since 1899, Creston Fire Rescue has protected the citizens in the Town of Creston and Creston Valley. Creston Fire Rescue consists of 45 paid-on-call firefighters, a Captain and two career Chief Officers.
The mission statement of Creston Fire Rescue is, “Putting People First with Pride, Honour and Integrity” committed to a safe, healthy and inclusive workplace. The fire service is customer orientated ensuring that every incident is managed in a quick, caring, and effective manner.
Between the municipality, contract service area and automatic aid agreement, the fire service provides service to the majority of the Creston Valley, including automatic response to other fire departments outside of the Town of Creston.
The Town of Creston fire rescue service promotes:
- A safe, healthy, respectful and inclusive workplace
- Serving the public with skill, care and professionalism
- Acting with dedication, commitment and honesty
- Striving to be better
Minimum Qualifications
- 19 years of age or older
- Canadian citizen or landed immigrant
- Commitment to a 12 month work experience program
- Consent to criminal record check
- Doctor's Medical Clearance or Certificate of Fitness; Fit Tech, CPAT or York
- Driver’s license with Air Brake Endorsement, favourable driver's abstract with no more than 3 points
- High School Graduate
- In-depth personal record check
- NFPA 1001 - Firefighter 1 and 2 or equivalent certification
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Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced level of First Aid Training
- Post secondary academic diploma
- Previous firefighting or other related work
- Primary care paramedic or equivalent
- Technical, trades or equivalent level
Additional Information
A 12 month commitment to the work experience program is required, with the exception of those hired to a career fire department during their program. Daily duties of the WEP firefighter is balanced between, but not limited to; fire suppression, technical rescue, medical response, fire prevention, public education, company fire inspections, preplanning, maintenance duties of equipment and fire station, as well as community events. WEP firefighters work a standard daytime shift routine Monday to Friday and are scheduled for duty coverage on weekends on a rotational basis.