Scott Safety

[chef]

Just wondering if anyone got call/emails back from Scott Safety re. Industrial Firefighter/EMT position? If so what is the wage rate? What is the work schedule like? What is the company like? Thanks for any info?

[Pickle]

Just wondering if anyone got call/emails back from Scott Safety re. Industrial Firefighter/EMT position? If so what is the wage rate? What is the work schedule like? What is the company like? Thanks for any info?

When I worked for them the rates were low. 200-250/day for anywhere upto 16hrs. This is not so much a fire fightering job as it is a standby fire crew for frac companies. They do not pay meals or travel to Whitecourt. They did have a house that they would let you stay at but only a few beds and first come first get! Work schedule..LOL when the phone rings you go. Sucks if u live out of town as you waste alot of time doing nothing or maybe working in the shop for $12 per hour.

Just my 2cents.

[Kyle_Taylor]

I also received an e-mail and was wondering the same things.

[IronW101]

ScottSafety will pay starting out 250$ day rate, Overtime after 12 hours. work in shop on non field days for $15 an hour, they have 2 houses in town to stay at for free, if not in the meantime they will put you up in hotels.

[Mal1]

Does Scott Safety supply Bunker Gear ?

[Bungie]

Scott Safety is a world leading manufacturer of innovative respiratory and other personal protective equipment and is trusted by fire and rescue services around the world.

Scott’s product range includes self-contained breathing apparatus, supplied air and air-purifying respirators, thermal imaging cameras, telemetry and location systems, gas detection instruments and head, hearing and face protection.

As well as leading the field in the design and manufacture of innovative PPE Scott provides specialist training, support and technical advice that has earned the trust of emergency services across the globe and over one million firefighters wear Scott’s SCBA systems.

[Firebug12]

Do not get confused with Scott Safety the SCBA's and fire equipment and the Oilfield company Scott Safety two different cats. I went to work for scott safety they called me up told me Hey got a job for you need you right away quick come up to Fort Nelson you will go to training for a couple weeks then deployed to the oil rigs working 20 on in camp and 7 off COME QUICK!!

At that point a poor carpenters apprentice thinking this would look great on my resume to get into a municipal department. I was like well chance of a life time lets go. With a wife and dog though I had doughts but Scott assured me no worries we have a place for your wife and your dog all will be ok even when you are at the rigs. So I thought Great lets go for it! we packed up all we could into the truck drove from Victoria to Fort nelson in two days for this great Job. All I can say is disorganized I was first held up in Fort St. John to get a gas course with another guy just out of rocky mountain spent his last pennies to get up there on there promises he had been stuck in St. John for two weeks with no work and no clothes as all his stuff was in Fort Nelson. I then drove him back to Fort Nelson with my wife and my dog packed car.

Things will only get better from here I get to the head office wow nice brand new trucks outside looking good. I got given a big F-350 to drive around as i pleased and rooms to a three bedroom townhouse to share with other members of the crew.

Soon I am to work working Monday to Friday 16 hours a day and making at best 12 to 13 dollars an hour which was allot less then the 30 I was promised. Even the guys on the Rigs did not like Scott Safety and wished there rig manager would hire on Fire Boss or someone else. You will stand beside your fire truck for that 16 hours with one other guy waiting for something to happen nothing will and if it does you are not going to be equipped for it. As I got talking to my other crew mates I find out many been dragged up there with no money and where no stranded even to leave there they had to keep working just to afford to leave they were in a huge rut. One guy been there 7 years when I asked him what SCBA's we used he didn’t know!!! This concerns me!

But I kept sticking it out until I was told I am off for a 20 day set to a camp in the Yukon sounds good when do I leave? Tomorrow. Ok no biggy well when I get back to the house they put us up in I see my wife looking flabber gassed as three guys have moved in and told her as of tomorrow morning when I am gone she has to move out. So last straw I handed in my papers and we packed up and went back south luckily enough I was hired on with a municipality within the year.

So to Summarize If you want to get on full time with a city department this will not help use your times wisely back where you live volunteer take extra courses and work a different job and just keep applying. Hope this helps.

[bloggins]

Wow. And to think I wanted to work with these clowns back in the day. Sounds like a typical jank operation.

Sorry for what you went through but good on you for achieving your goal.