Bismarck’s firefighters perform challenging and rewarding work in preventing, combating, and extinguishing fires, responding to EMS incidents, training, operating and maintaining equipment. The work involves duties of protecting life and property through the performance of firefighting and rescue activities. Firefighters are also required to train and participate in the operation of equipment and apparatus on a very routine basis. Firefighters perform hazardous tasks under emergency conditions. These tasks may require strenuous exertion under conditions as fire, heat, smoke, cramped and hazardous surroundings.
While rescue and firefighting work is the primary area of responsibility, a significant portion of time is also spent inspecting premises for the purposes of fire prevention, preplanning, and delivering public fire education. Firefighters also spend a large part of their day training and drilling, performing routine station and equipment maintenance duties, as well as performing other duties as assigned.
Application Requirements
You must be at least 18 years old, a high school graduate or have a GED, and have possession of or ability to readily obtain a driver's license issued by the State of North Dakota (or state equivalent). You must also be able to report to work within 45 minutes for emergency callbacks.
In addition, the department has general grooming principles that include but not limited to no gaged ears or facial or tongue piercings. Also, tattoos that could reasonably be interpreted as offensive, obscene, sexual, racial, or religiously discriminatory may not be exhibited while on duty. Head, face, or neck tattoos are not permitted.
The applications are automatically scored by the recruiting software based on your information entered into the system. Approximately two weeks before the testing, the scored applications will be reviewed for required documentation.
After the applications are reviewed we will invite the top applicants to participate in the written test.
The Bismarck Fire Department requires that candidates successfully complete the physical ability test. Failure of the test will disqualify a candidate from the process.
Candidates with the highest aggregate score on the written test and qualification points will advance to the interview.
When a vacancy is to be filled the three highest ranked candidates on the certification list will be evaluated. The department may make a conditional offer of employment to any one of the three candidates. The candidate would then need successful completion of a medical examination, drug test, and background check before a final offer of employment is made.
