Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Deputy Fire Marshal to join our team at Harnett County, North Carolina. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the safety of our community through fire inspection, prevention, education, and investigation services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Fire Code Enforcement: Perform fire code inspections to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local policies and regulations.
• Fire Investigation: Investigate the cause of fires and provide technical assistance to the incident commander.
• Fire Safety Inspections: Conduct fire safety inspections of commercial and industrial establishments, schools, and other occupancies to identify fire hazards and ensure compliance with fire prevention standards.
• Plan Review: Review commercial building plans to ensure compliance with state and local building codes.
• Public Education: Conduct public education classes on fire prevention and safety for the public, businesses, schools, and emergency responders.
• Record Keeping: Prepare and maintain technical records and reports connected to fire inspections and investigations.
• Emergency Response: Assist local fire departments and other agencies with emergency response efforts.

Requirements:

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience: Two years of work experience in fire services or equivalent education and/or experience.
• Certifications: Possession of a valid North Carolina driver's license, NC Level I Standard Fire Inspector Certification, NC Fire Fighter Level I and II Certification(s), NC Level I Hazardous Materials Certification, NC Level III Fire Inspector Certification, and NC Fire Investigator Certification.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Fire Safety Knowledge: Knowledge of federal, state, and local policies, procedures, laws, regulations, principles, and modern practices and processes pertaining to fire inspections, fire codes, emergency evacuation planning, fire investigations and prevention, and hazardous materials handling, storage, and reporting.
• Firefighting Principles: Knowledge of firefighting principles and procedures.
• Fire Association Codes: Knowledge of fire association/state fire protection and prevention codes, standards, and guides.
• Chemical Knowledge: Knowledge of chemicals and chemical hazards, methods of control and mitigation of chemical releases, laws, and ordinances.
• Fire Prevention Programs: Knowledge of fire prevention and public education programs.
• Building Construction: Knowledge of building construction and systems, fire sprinkler, and standpipe systems.
• Arson Investigation: Knowledge of arson investigation techniques and related laws.
• Fire Department Operations: Knowledge of fire department operations and organizational structures.

Physical Demands:

The Deputy Fire Marshal must be able to perform very heavy work exerting up to 20 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects; frequently requiring 50 pounds of force to move objects; and occasionally requiring to exert up to 100 pounds of force to move objects.

This work also involves the physical abilities of balancing, climbing, crawling, crouching, feeling, grasping, handling, perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, kneeling, lifting, having manual dexterity, using mental acuity, pulling, pushing, reaching, performing repetitive motion, speaking, standing, stooping, shouting to be heard above ambient noise, and walking.

An incumbent must also possess the visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, for extensive reading and work with figures, to operate a computer, to work with color, to inspect fire sites, to use measuring devices, to operate a motor vehicle; and to determine accuracy and neatness of work.

Work Environment:

The Deputy Fire Marshal works indoors and outdoors with exposure to extreme hot and cold weather; high heat and chemicals; moving mechanical parts; electrical current, and heights.

Employees are also subject to exposure to atmospheric conditions and bloodborne pathogens, are sometimes required to wear a respirator, and may be required to work in close quarters.

This position requires working a 24-hour shift to respond to emergency management events that occur during that shift and requires rotating on-call duty for seven-day intervals, 24 hours a day.

About Harnett County:

Harnett County is one of the fastest growing counties in North Carolina with approximately 130,000 residents.

Our Strong Roots, New Growth, describes a county in transition, one that values its rural agricultural heritage while also embracing new growth and industry.

Harnett County is optimally located between North Carolina's capital city of Raleigh and the internationally recognized Research Triangle Park to the north, and the nation's largest military installation in Fort Bragg to the south.

The county is also centrally located in North Carolina and is within close proximity to the Great Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge Parkway, and to the numerous Atlantic Ocean beaches and the Outer Banks.

The county offers a wide range of training and development opportunities, a stable career in public service with a balance of work and family life.

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