Job Description
Minimum Qualifications
Recruitment Notes
This position will be reporting to the Air Rescue Bureau at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and will work approximately nine (9) - 24 hour shifts per month OR work 4-days 10-hours shifts. This position starts at an in-hire base rate of $3,145.43 (bi-weekly) / $81,781.30 (annually) and offers pay incentives that may be applicable. This position will be subject to an interview and a flight evaluation test.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) is the sixth-largest accredited full-service fire-rescue department in the Southeast United States. With 71 fire rescue stations within unincorporated Miami-Dade County serving 29 municipalities, MDFR protects people, property, and the environment by providing proactive, responsive, professional, and humanitarian fire rescue services essential to public health, safety, and well-being. MDFR has units dedicated to serving the airport, seaport, and air transport services, as well as to serving in ocean rescue, fire and rescue, marine, hazardous materials, urban search and rescue (US&R), technical rescue, and venom response operations.
Miami-Dade County offers outstanding comprehensive benefits that include full medical, dental, optional vision and disability insurance; optional 457 pre-tax savings plans, optional flexible spending accounts, 12 paid holidays, one birthday holiday, and three floating holidays; vacation and sick leave; and employee contributory membership in the Florida Retirement System. Applicants qualifying for employment will be subject to an extensive background check including, but not limited to, fingerprint checks, employment verification and other procedures. All resume submittals are subject to State of Florida Public Records Law. Miami-Dade County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Air Rescue Bureau provides aero-regional medical transport, search and rescue, firefighting and tactical support to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) operations, as well as to local municipalities and government agencies at the state and federal level.
MDFR helicopters transport severely injured trauma patients to state-approved Level I Trauma Centers. Flight crews are trained in tactical disciplines necessary to deploy personnel and equipment in search and rescue missions, firefighting operations and reconnaissance on large incidents such as wildland fires and catastrophic events.
An "Alert Aircraft" is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at each of our two alert sites, Air Rescue South and Air Rescue North. Two flight medics and two pilots are assigned to each Alert Aircraft. They can respond to any Miami-Dade location within minutes and transport patients to the nearest appropriate trauma or medical center. When Air Rescue responds to an incident, the Fire Alarm Office dispatches ground fire rescue units to the designated Landing Zone (LZ) to provide LZ security and safety.