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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Prepares, maintains, and monitors Civil Engineer (CE) operations plans and supporting documents for mobility, response, and recovery operations.

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Duties And Responsibilities

Duties And Responsibilities
Duties And Responsibilities
Prepares wartime and contingency response plans. Conducts research and assists in developing emergency management plans, including measures to minimize casualties and damage from natural disasters, major accidents, wartime operations, and military operations other than war. Coordinates actions to ensure prompt response during emergency and contingency operations, including immediate mobilization of all resources and participation of all agencies and organizations. Coordinates actions to allow continuation or restoration of vital functions and operations. Prepares emergency management annexes, appendices, supplements, and other supporting documents to support operations plans. Prepares checklists and operating instructions for readiness activities. Develops and maintains plans for contingency, mobility, and recovery. Extracts tasking from the time-phased force deployment list. Establishes, coordinates, conducts, and monitors the Prime BEEF operation. Assigns Prime BEEF personnel. Analyzes training and deficiencies for wartime tasks. Identifies, budgets, requisitions, and accounts for equipment and supplies used by readiness and contingency teams. Inputs, maintains, and reviews data for status of resources and training system (SORTS). Establishes, coordinates, and maintains annual Prime BEEF training plan. Assists in assigning, training, and deploying Prime BEEF personnel; and in procuring, maintaining, storing, and deploying equipment. Conducts emergency management and emergency response training. Manages, schedules, and conducts training on readiness activities and survival measures for disasters and contingencies. Provides briefings, and develops installation emergency management training and educational materials. Assists in emergency planning and response to comply with Executive Order 12856 and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986. Monitors CE readiness and installation emergency management activities. Inspects equipment. Ensures emergency management teams are established and manned. Acts as exercise evaluation team member for CE and ensures exercises are conducted according to directives. Ensures authorized and required CBRN protective equipment and clothing, detection devices, and monitoring instruments are available, calibrated, and in operating condition. Monitors actions to preserve life, minimize damage, and restore operations following natural disasters, accidents, wartime attacks, and military operations other than war. Coordinates emergency management activities and plans with all base units and nearby military and civilian organizations. Briefs military and civilian personnel in conjunction with community relations programs. Monitors air base operability activities. Requisitions supplies and equipment for readiness and the Readiness Support Team (RST). Maintains custodial files for accounts such as supply and equipment; intrabase radio; test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment. Manages unit and staff agency emergency management program. Provides unit and staff agency assistance to ensure emergency management planning and training have been accomplished, and emergency management directives are being followed. Conducts emergency management analysis. Establishes and monitors requirements and procedures for contamination control. Detects, identifies, measures, and reports contamination. Assists bioenvironmental engineer to interpret hazards to personnel. Coordinates and monitors exposure control procedures. Plots contamination levels and coordinates with medical personnel to identify contaminated areas and establish safety procedures. Ensures unsafe areas are marked according to directives. Documents findings and reports to proper authority. Performs CE readiness and installation emergency management functions. Serves in mobile emergency operations center vehicle (MEOC) or emergency operation center (EOC), or CBRN control center. Monitors force protection and survivability, and advises the unit deployment officer or NCO of deployment and employment capabilities. Establishes an integrated conventional and CBRN detection, warning, and reporting system. Advises the commander on response to peacetime attacks with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Helps prepare for peacetime WMD and wartime conventional and CBRN defense, including activating CBRN teams for shelter, collective protection, contamination control, reconnaissance, plotting, and reporting. Coordinates protective shelter and collective protection requirements. Supervises teams engaged in monitoring and contamination control operations. Reviews findings of personnel operating detection equipment, and compiles data to indicate danger areas. Ensures specialized teams comply with contamination control and safety procedures. Manages activities in the CBRN control center. Operates the MEOC and emergency management communications net. Helps analyze reports and plotting areas of contamination. Advises the commander on mission impact and recovery activities following an attack. Determines contamination levels and amount over a given area and, in conjunction with medical personnel, recommends time limits that personnel may remain in the area. Ensures emergency facilities are established for personnel contamination control areas. Advises the readiness officer on overall situation during disasters or contingency operations. Maintains directives. Maintains operations event log. Provides inputs to reports. Ensures safety procedures are followed. Ensures exposure and contamination control procedures are established, coordinated, and distributed. Ensures safety precautions are taken by assigned personnel.



SPECIALTY QUALIFICATIONS INFO

Specialty Qualifications

Specialty Qualifications
Specialty Qualifications
Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of the characteristics and effects of peacetime WMD and wartime conventional and CBRN weapons; detection and identification of CBRN contamination; threat analysis; passive defense measures; principles of contamination control; related technical information, policies, procedures, techniques, and equipment; and CE readiness and contingency planning, training, operations, equipment supply procedures, directives, and policies.

Education. For entry into this specialty, completion of high school with courses in algebra, biology, physics, chemistry, typing, computer operations, and speech are desirable.




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