FIREFIGHTER​/PARAMEDIC

The City of Collinsville is currently accepting applications for Firefighter/Paramedic. The general responsibilities of this position include responding to fire alarms and other emergency calls to protect life and property; extinguishing structure and wildland fires; driving emergency apparatus; performing automobile and technical rescues, and providing emergency medical care to the sick or injured.

An Eligibility List is created through a competitive testing process which includes a Written Exam and Oral Interview.

Following testing, successful candidates will be placed on an "Initial Eligibility List" based on their individual ranking in these two events. Additional points may be added to their raw score for credible military service and/or other training and education and candidates will be placed on a "Final Eligibility List."

If an opening occurs, candidates will be subject to additional testing including a very thorough background investigation, polygraph, medical examination, including drug screening, and psychological exam.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States;
• High School diploma (or equivalent);
• Applicants must be at least twenty (20) years of age and shall be under thirty-four (34) years of age on the applications deadline date. Age determined by date of birth.
  • However, the age-34 limitation shall not apply in cases where the applicant was previously employed as a full-time firefighter in a regularly constituted fire department of (i) any municipality or fire protection district located in Illinois, (ii) any fire protection district whose obligations were assumed by a municipality under Section 21 of the Fire Protection District Act (70 ILCS 705/21); or (iii) a municipality whose obligations were taken over by a fire protection district.
    
    To qualify for these exceptions to the age limitations, the applicant shall have been actively working as a firefighter over the past two (2) years of the date of his or her application to this City, or
  • The age-34 limitation shall not apply to any applicant who turned 35 while serving as a member of the active or reserve components of any of the branches of the Armed Forces of the United States or the National Guard of any state, whose service was characterized as honorable or under honorable, if separated from the military, and is currently under the age of 40.

At time of conditional job offer the following age limitations apply

No person who is under twenty-one (21) years of age shall be eligible for employment as a firefighter/paramedic.

No person who has reached their thirty-fifth (35) birthday shall be eligible for employment, unless they meet the specific military exemption.

• A copy of their "birth record" as proof of citizenship and age. Applicants may submit copies of a U.S. county- or state-issued birth record, valid U.S. passport, or naturalization papers as their birth record. Hospital-issued birth certificates will not be accepted.
• A copy of their high school diploma. The Board will also accept a copy of the applicants' high school transcript (showing graduation date) or evidence of a G.E.D. equivalence diploma. In cases of applicants who were educated outside the United States, appropriate documentation of a high school-level diploma shall be determined on a case-by-case basis.
• A copy of their valid driver's license, including the back side if license bears renewal sticker.
• A copy of their valid Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT) card with ladder certification issued within twelve months immediately preceding the date of application. If applicant does not have a current card, one must be submitted before the final eligibility list is established.
• A copy of their DD214 if using age exception for military

• A copy of their valid Paramedic License (EMT-P); must be licensed as an Illinois EMT Paramedic at time of hire. All applicants must be an Illinois licensed EMT-Paramedic at the time of appointment, and if not currently a license EMT-Paramedic then the applicant must be enrolled in a program to…