Job Details

Other Ranks (Non Technical), Other Ranks (Non Technical) (Reserve)

The Army Emergency Responder is a soldier in the Royal Australian Engineers that provides initial emergency response to the combat force in order to minimise loss of life, destruction of material, capability and environment by accident, fire or hazardous material.

As a Corps, soldiers of the Royal Australian Engineers are known as 'Sappers' and are responsible for assisting our own forces to move whilst also denying mobility to the enemy. Sappers are trained in a broad range of tasks including bridge-building, clearing minefields, demolitions, field defences, building, road and airfield construction and repair, emergency response and geomatic and multimedia support.

An Emergency Responder is a soldier who uses and maintains specialist emergency response skills and equipment and provides rescue and first aid.

The Emergency Response trade is a trade based upon the civilian Emergency Services, primarily the rescue sections that can be found in most domestic fire stations around Australia. Some skills are also obtained through the State Fire Agencies.

The main job functions include:

• Provide a deployable emergency response service to the deployed force and Special Forces;
• Provide an emergency response service to military airfields;
• Control and co-ordinate emergency response operations;
• Provide a response role in aircraft crash and rescue, road accident and rescue, vertical (height or depths) or horizontal (confined space) extraction and provide an urban search and rescue capability (building collapse etc);
• Respond to hazardous material incident in an operational environment;
• Assist in Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Decontamination operations; and
• Provide first aid and resuscitation to the injured.