Civil Service Commission
(1) Atlantic County
Applicants must show completion of:
Eighty (80) hour Level 3 Haz-Mat Technician training
Sixteen (16) hour Level 5 On Scene Incident Commander training
and Advanced Incident Command System ICS-400
Course must be in compliance with any one of the following:
National Fire Protection Association 471 standard; revised NFPA 472 standard; 473 standard New Jersey State Police and Health Administration Regulations 29 CFR 1910-1206(q) 6ii United States Department of Transportation
NOTE: Appointees may be required to attend training for additional certifications in a specified timeframe as determined by the appointing authority.
Such training may include but not be limited to:
NFPA 1001, Basic Firefighting or equivalent New Jersey Emergency Medical Technician Certification or equivalent
EXPERIENCE:
Six (6) years of experience responding to and containing releases, spills, or other incidents of exposure to hazardous materials including those involving potential acute hazards to public health or environmental contamination.
Such situations will include, but not be limited to, all reports of spills, discharges, and other releases into the environment of oil, petroleum products, and other hazardous materials from any source or cause including pipeline or tank ruptures, train derailments, highway accidents, deliberate illegal dumping of waste (whether free-flowing or drummed), and releases from residential, commercial, government, and industrial sites.
SUBSTITUTIONS
Applicants who possess an Associate's degree from an accredited college with a major course of study in Biological, Chemical, Environmental, Fire or Physical Science, or Engineering or a minimum of 32 semester hour credits in the areas listed may be substituted for two (2) years of required experience.
OR
Applicants who possess a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college with a major course of study in Biological, Chemical, Environmental, Fire or Physical Science, or Engineering may substitute this education for four (4) years of the required experience.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
Appointees will be required to carry a personal paging device and must be able to respond to hazardous materials emergencies on a 24 hour, 7-day a week basis.
Appointees will be required to participate in the department's medical surveillance and physical fitness conditioning program pursuant to OSHA Regulation 29 CFR 1910-120 (f).
Appointees will be required to obtain a special driver's license from the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles to operate the type of vehicles assigned to the program within six (6) months of being hired.
LICENSE:Appointees will be required to possess a valid New Jersey driver's license.
NOTE: The responsibility for ensuring that employees possess the required motor vehicle license, commensurate with the class and type of vehicles they operate, rests with the Appointing Authority.
PLEASE NOTE: Applications must be completed and submitted by 4:00pm on the closing date.
Customer Care and Technical Support: If you are having difficulty submitting your application online, customer care and technical support are available during regular business hours, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST, Monday - Friday, excluding holidays and emergency closings. Please email: OAS.support@csc.nj.gov or call (609) 292-4144. Please note that application support requests received outside regular business hours on the closing date will not change the application filing deadline so PLEASE FILE EARLY.
- NJAC 4A:4-2.3(b) states that all requirements must be met as of the closing date.
- Online applications must be completed and submitted by the closing date listed above.
- You must complete your application in detail. Your score may be based on a comparison of your background with the job requirements. Failure to complete your application properly may lower your score or cause you to fail. NOTE: Auto-fill may cause incomplete information on your application. Please confirm your name, address and phone number prior to submitting your application.
- If an employment list results from this announcement, it may be certified to fill full-time and part-time positions.
- Effective September 1, 2011, the New Jersey First residency law was enacted. Please click here for additional information. In accordance with Public Law 2010 c. 26, Veterans pay a reduced application fee of $15.00 if they have previously established Veteran's Preference with the DMAVA (as defined by NJSA 11A:5-1 et seq). Those claiming Veteran’s Preference but have not yet received approval from DMAVA must pay the full application fee and may request a refund if the claim is approved at least 8 days prior to the issuance of the eligibility list. Please note this reduced fee does not apply to Public Safety titles.
- Application fees submitted via personal check or money order must be postmarked within five (5) business days of submitting your application. If your fee is postmarked after five (5) business days, or is returned as invalid, you will be declared ineligible and denied admittance to the examination process.
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