Fire Department Employment Opportunity

The Willowick Fire Department is staffed daily by part-time employees. Each day is subdivided into three shifts staffed by six on-duty personnel. The Department offers part-time employment opportunities to individuals at different career levels. Younger candidates find the experience rewarding and beneficial as a starting point for securing a career in firefighting. Some candidates benefit from the additional income while working in the field they are trained for. Still others, who have careers established outside of the fire service, find it extremely rewarding to be a firefighter as a second means of income. Regardless of an individual’s reason for working, there exists a consistent theme. All members of Fire Department are dedicated to serving the Community of Willowick by dedicating their spare time away from family and full-time employment.

As a Willowick Firefighter you are provided Civil Service classification. Firefighters are hired through a non-competitive exam whose standards allow for immediate placement. The qualifications for appointment are:

Qualifications to appoint:

Citizen of the United States
Shall reside in Lake County or one of the contiguous counties.
Minimum of 19 years of age to forty-five (45) years of age or older as of the date of examination.
Corrected vision to 20/20 with glasses or contact lenses.
High School diploma (or equivalent)
Ohio Driver’s License
EMT-Basic State of Ohio certification
Firefighter I State of Ohio certification

Appointed firefighters serve a minimum 18 month probationary period in order to complete further certification requirements (i.e., paramedic, NIMS 700, 100, 200). If all required certifications are achieved the probationary firefighter will be promoted to Firefighter 1st Class. All newly promoted firefighters shall maintain their paramedic certification as a condition of employment.

Firefighters with paramedic certification are paid an additional $1.50 an hour. The Willowick Fire Department also offers a longevity wage scale for tenured employees. The wage increase is applied at 5 year intervals up to 20 years. Additionally, firefighters are eligible for healthcare benefits if they work over an average of 30 hours per week during a 1 year period.

We provide our firefighters an excellent opportunity to prepare for a career in firefighting. Our recruit training program allows our firefighters to maintain their certification training requirements, achieve much needed knowledge and experience, and prepare them for a career in firefighting.

The greatest benefit of working for the Willowick Fire Department may well be your inclusion into a large firefighting network. The Willowick Fire Department employs a majority number of career firefighters who work in many of our surrounding communities. Your experience and work ethic will be on display for those departments who look to hire full-time career firefighters. A great many of firefighters are hired full-time by career departments and continue to work part-time with us.

Applications can be picked up at the Fire Department during normal business hours. The application can also be downloaded here.

Thanks again for your interest in the Willowick Fire Department. We look forward to assisting you in reaching your goals.

Building & Service Departments

DUE TO DEPARTMENTAL WIDE COVID-19, OUR OFFICE WILL REMAIN CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. PLEASE USE THE INBOX (LOCKED) TO DROP OFF PERMIT REQUESTS AND OTHER ITEMS FOR REVIEW AND THE OUTBOX FOR PICK-UPS.

WE WILL CALL YOU WHEN YOUR PERMIT IS READY FOR PICK UP.

THANK YOU,

BUILDING AND SERVICE DEPARTMENT

Leaf Pick Up

Leaf pick up has been completed for the season. Any remaining leaves will need to be bagged and placed out for Kimble to pick up through the last week of December.

Residents to Receive NOPEC Natural Gas Enrollment Letters Soon

Eligible residents and small business owners in the City of Willowick will be receiving a natural gas enrollment letter for the City’s natural gas aggregation program through NOPEC. NOPEC is required by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to send these letters to all eligible residential and small business customers in NOPEC member communities every two years. Letters will begin mailing in early November for enrollment into the natural gas program for the period beginning January 2022 through June 2023.
If you want to enroll in NOPEC’s Standard Program Price, you don’t need to take any action when you receive your enrollment letter. You will automatically be enrolled. Additional program options including fixed term and monthly variable pricing can be viewed online at http://nopec.org/checkrates or by calling NOPEC’s Customer Care Center at 1-855-667-3201. If you don’t want to enroll in the natural gas aggregation, you must return the opt-out form included with your enrollment letter to NOPEC by mail or by fax to 440-774-4422 by no later than December 13, 2021.

SID – Shoreline Special Improvement District

We have received the first round of funding for the Special Improvement District (SID). If you would like to be a part of this program and have not yet filled out the petition please click on this link SID Petition. Please read and fill the petition out. Once complete please drop the paperwork off at City Hall, 30435 Lakeshore Blvd., Willowick or email to atrend@cityofwillowick.com . More information will follow.

Recordings of the July 28 and August 11 virtual meetings regarding the Lakeshore Boulevard and Lakefront Redevelopment TLCI Project are now available on the website.