Hiring Organization: GardaWorld
Job Location: Balad, Iraq
Requisition ID: 1805
**** This position is located in IRAQ - Travel & Housing will be provided ****
Position Overview:
The Emergency Response Team (ERT) Member is responsible for executing tactical response operations, maintaining operational effectiveness, and ensuring full compliance with emergency protocols. This includes the preparation and deployment of personnel and equipment in response to armed incidents, intrusions, fire, medical emergencies, and evacuation scenarios.
Responsibilities:
Job Location: Balad, Iraq
Requisition ID: 1805
**** This position is located in IRAQ - Travel & Housing will be provided ****
Position Overview:
The Emergency Response Team (ERT) Member is responsible for executing tactical response operations, maintaining operational effectiveness, and ensuring full compliance with emergency protocols. This includes the preparation and deployment of personnel and equipment in response to armed incidents, intrusions, fire, medical emergencies, and evacuation scenarios.
Responsibilities:
Execute all ERT operations, ensuring swift, effective, and professional response to emergency events.
Adhere to and execute established emergency response procedures for active shooter situations, base intrusions, IED threats, fire, medical incidents, and mass casualty scenarios.
Participate actively in regular drills, tabletop exercises, and full-scale simulations to assess team readiness, individual performance, and operational response capability.
Maintain a constant state of operational readiness, including weapons proficiency, physical conditioning, tactical training, and equipment status.
Participate in mission planning, shift deployments, and attend detailed briefings and debriefings before and after each operation or exercise.
Coordinate and communicate directly with the Security Operations Center (SOC), fire department, medical response teams, and senior base leadership during both drills and real-world incidents.
Contribute to after-action reviews (AARs), incident reports, and continuous improvement documentation as required.
Comply with all local laws, base-specific rules of engagement (ROE), use of force protocols, and host nation regulations during all ERT operations.
Maintain and account for all assigned ERT equipment, including firearms, tactical gear, PPE, communications systems, and response vehicles, ensuring maintenance and readiness.
Required Qualifications:
All candidates must:Be at least 21 years of age.
Be a U.S. citizen.
Be able to speak, read, write, and understand the English language.
Be able to pass the medical and physical requirements outlined in the contract.
Meet all standards as required by the contract.
Have a clean driving record with a valid driver’s license.
Possess a minimum of three (3) years of security experience, with at least one (1) year serving on an Emergency Response Team (ERT) within a high-threat environment.
Must understand and apply international best practices in emergency response, incident command systems, and security operations in conflict zones.
All candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment medical and physical examination, drug screen, and psychological examination. Additionally, all candidates will be required to complete a paid pre-deployment training course.
Work Environment and Location:
The position is located in an austere environment. Furnished housing will be provided. Travel to and from the Work Location will be provided. Employees may be exposed to extreme cold or hot weather conditions, fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and loud noise.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands listed below, though not fully inclusive, are that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time. The employee is frequently required to move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. The employee is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Teleworking: No
Travel: Yes
Benefits: Yes
Adhere to and execute established emergency response procedures for active shooter situations, base intrusions, IED threats, fire, medical incidents, and mass casualty scenarios.
Participate actively in regular drills, tabletop exercises, and full-scale simulations to assess team readiness, individual performance, and operational response capability.
Maintain a constant state of operational readiness, including weapons proficiency, physical conditioning, tactical training, and equipment status.
Participate in mission planning, shift deployments, and attend detailed briefings and debriefings before and after each operation or exercise.
Coordinate and communicate directly with the Security Operations Center (SOC), fire department, medical response teams, and senior base leadership during both drills and real-world incidents.
Contribute to after-action reviews (AARs), incident reports, and continuous improvement documentation as required.
Comply with all local laws, base-specific rules of engagement (ROE), use of force protocols, and host nation regulations during all ERT operations.
Maintain and account for all assigned ERT equipment, including firearms, tactical gear, PPE, communications systems, and response vehicles, ensuring maintenance and readiness.
Required Qualifications:
All candidates must:Be at least 21 years of age.
Be a U.S. citizen.
Be able to speak, read, write, and understand the English language.
Be able to pass the medical and physical requirements outlined in the contract.
Meet all standards as required by the contract.
Have a clean driving record with a valid driver’s license.
Possess a minimum of three (3) years of security experience, with at least one (1) year serving on an Emergency Response Team (ERT) within a high-threat environment.
Must understand and apply international best practices in emergency response, incident command systems, and security operations in conflict zones.
All candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment medical and physical examination, drug screen, and psychological examination. Additionally, all candidates will be required to complete a paid pre-deployment training course.
Work Environment and Location:
The position is located in an austere environment. Furnished housing will be provided. Travel to and from the Work Location will be provided. Employees may be exposed to extreme cold or hot weather conditions, fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and loud noise.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands listed below, though not fully inclusive, are that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time. The employee is frequently required to move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. The employee is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Teleworking: No
Travel: Yes
Benefits: Yes