The City of Sheridan is accepting applications for a Firefighter eligibility list. In person testing
will be conducted December 5-7, 2025.
**Application Deadline: 11/17/2025**
**JOB SUMMARY**
This position is responsible for the provision of hazmat control, emergency medical, fire suppression, rescue, public education, and inspection services to protect life, property, and the environment.
**MAJOR DUTIES **
- Responds to medical emergencies; makes determination of patient condition; administers basic emergency medical treatment; transports ill and injured patients in ambulance vehicles.
- Drives and operates equipment in response to medical, rescue, fire, hazardous materials, and other emergency situations.
- Suppresses wild land and structure fires.
- Provides specialized high angle, low angle, confined space, swift water, and ice rescues.
- Performs vehicle extractions.
- Maintains equipment in a constant state of readiness.
- Presents public education programs.
- Conducts fire inspections and pre-planning activities.
- Participates in training to maintain proficiency in all requisite duties.
- Completes paperwork to record duties performed, to comply with HIPAA regulations, and to provide billing information.
- Maintains and re-supplies emergency medical care equipment.
- Performs preventive maintenance of building and apparatus.
- Maintains apparatus and equipment in constant state of readiness.
- Performs related duties.
**PHYSICAL DEMANDS/ WORK ENVIRONMENT FREQUENTLY**
- Standing: Dynamic standing, raising ladders, operating a hose, clearing debris, inspecting equipment, sweeping or mopping, power washing
- Walking: Walking from and to truck or engine multiple times at fire or accident scenes. Walking on rough ground or uneven surfaces. When working in fire scenes that have no pavement or smooth surfaces, working on surfaces strewn with debris.
- Twist or Turn: Removing and replacing protective gear, tools and equipment from the truck; removing, deploying and replacing ground ladders; moving or removing furniture or other obstacles.
- Reaching Waist to Shoulder: Pulling hoses off of truck or engine; carrying/using axes or other tools; moving or removing furniture or other obstacles; retrieving and storing items and supplies.
- Handling/grasping: Using tools, hoses, first aid cases, ladders, protective gear, backboards; removing victims; sweeping, mopping.
**OCCASIONALLY **
- Running from truck or engine to fire or accident scene with tools, equipment, fan or other items; running to pull a dry hose; running to transport a victim on a backboard; running up or down a staircase.
- Sitting: Riding in a truck or engine to and from a fire or accident scene. ? Driving: If assigned to drive equipment to and from a fire or accident scene.
- Balance: When climbing ladders or stairs, suppressing fires at or near rooftops or several stories above ground, walking or running on wet or muddy surfaces, carrying victims. Firefighter Job Function Analysis
- Work at Heights: When suppressing fires at or near rooftops or several stories above ground, climbing/standing on a ladder, standing on top of parked equipment.
- Climb Stairs or Ladders: Deploying and climbing a ground or aerial ladder to enter a building or suppress a fire; climbing stairs in a building to reach sources of fires or to access and retrieve victims.
- Bend/Stoop: Unwinding hoses, laying a hose, coupling and uncoupling a hose, mopping a floor, dismantling a vehicle, unpacking and repacking medical equipment and supplies.
- Crouch/Squat: Unwinding hoses, pulling hose, coupling and uncoupling a hose, administering first ad to a victim.
- Crawl/Kneel: Crawl on the floor or through wreckage to access a victim; kneeling to unwind hoses, lay/pull hose, coupling and uncoupling a hose, administering first aid to a victim.
- Awkward Positions: Reachi g over our under wreckage or debris to reach and remove a victim, administer first aid to a victim , or remove debris and obstacles at an accident or fire scene.
- Reaching Shoulder to Overhead: Climbing up ground or aerial ladders, hoisting ground ladders onto shoulder, pulling up to enter a truck or engine, swinging an ax or a sledgehammer overhead. Reaching Floor to Waist: Holding/carrying ground ladders with other firefighters, putting on boots and pants, picking up hoses from ground, shoveling debris.
- Extension/Flexion: Extension: pushing ladders back into trucks or engines, pushing on internal or external doors in buildings, shoveling debris away at a fire or VMA scene; flexion: retrieving hoses, grasping ground ladders below waist.
- Power Grasping: Moving/pulling/operating a charged hose, breaching a wall, hanging on to ladder rungs after strenuous exercise.
- Finger/Feel: Adjusting oxygen and mask, putting on and removing protective gear, writing reports, typing on a computer, using self-contained breathing apparatus.
- Operate Foot Control: If assigned to drive equipment.
- The work is typically performed in an office and at emergency scenes. The employee may be exposed to noise, machinery with moving parts, contagious or infectious diseases, or irritating chemicals. The work may be performed outdoors and occasionally in cold or inclement weather. The work may require the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, or gloves.
- The employee must be able to drive an assigned vehicle.
