Johnson City, Tenn. (WJHL) – According to a press launch, Johnson Town will reopen employing for firefighters beginning Monday.

Applicants can sign-up for forthcoming examinations on August 2 and 3 which require physical checks to figure out if participants are healthy for the rigors of the posture.

The selecting approach includes several ways:

• Application
• Bodily examination
• Background investigation
• Polygraph tests
• Panel interviews
• Conditional present/new retain the services of screening

Applicants are necessary to be 18 years of age, a substantial university or equivalent graduate and have to be cost-free of any convictions or guilty pleas for costs concerned with violence, theft, dishonesty, gambling, alcoholic beverages, or controlled substances.

Anybody hired will be obtain 12 months of schooling, two months of onboarding and a trainee period of 24 hour shifts “every other working day for five days, after which they will be off for 4 days just before the timetable repeats.”

In accordance to the launch, beginning trainee pay begins at $36,505 and improves to $38,505 just after a probationary time period.

For these already certified in Tennessee, various choosing incentives are available:

• TN Certified Firefighter I – $1,200
• TN EMT (Simple) – $1,350
• TN EMT (Superior) – $1,350

For more information and facts and to commence the software method, click listed here.