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GORDON F KÜHN

Exceptionally motivated to maintain or improve high quality proficient standards required to benefit life, company and environment with consistent honest and reliable conduct. Globally impartial combined with practically orientated functioning in team dynamics or unaided if needed via assertive objectivity and ambition of upmost professional ethical leadership. Urban, Rural and Remote site Emergency Technician including but not limited to firefighting industrial, rescue response operations, structural, trench, water, heights and confined space. Primary Health care provider and or assistance. Firefighting operations together with inspections of buildings, training, events and investigations. Administration, quality control and logistics. Scene management, co-ordination and assistance as well as disaster operations and management with infection control, Hazmat response and operations, community service, conservation and preservation of life.

P E R S O N A L

Nationality South African

Date of Birth 12 August 1975

Driver’s License EC - Heavy duty – horse and trailer (Previously - code 14 In SA) Languages English and Afrikaans

Notice Period Negotiable

Residential Area Gauteng, South Africa

Contact Details +27-82-339-**** adjhj0@r.postjobfree.com E D U C A T I O N

CERTIFICATES – Various

Introduction to Health and Safety in the Work Place. Rope Rescue Technician High Angle 1 & 2 – NFPA (National Fire and Protection Association)

Confined Space Technician – NFPA (National Fire and Protection Association)

Structural Collapse Technician – NFPA (National Fire and Protection Association)

Trench Rescue Technician – NFPA (National Fire and Protection Association)

Life Saving Instructor – Water

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Life Saving Certificate Silver – Water

Swift Water Gauteng

Advanced Vehicle Extrication (Holmatro)

Fire Service Instructor 1. ( National Fire and Protection Association) 2010 Vehicle Extrication Specialist

Industrial Firefighting (Williams Fire and Hazard Control – Secunda) National Diploma in Fire Technology (Tshwane University of Technology) - 1998

Ambulance Emergency Assistant (Intermediate life support – Pretoria Ambulance training College Registered at Health Professions council in South Africa) - 1998

Driver Operator Course (Tshwane fire dept)1999

Hazmat Responder & Operations NFPA (National Fire and Protection Association)

Dräger SCBA training Gallery

Highrise firefighting.

Fire Fighter 1 & 2 – NFPA (National Fire and Protection Association) - 1997 South African Emergency Services Institute, Certificate (SAESI) - 1994 Basic Ambulance Care (Basic life support - Johannesburg Ambulance Training Collage) - 1994

Basic Fire Fighting - Recruits (Sandton Fire and Emergency Service) -1994 Fire Investigator NFPA921 {2020)

1993 MATRIC – Höerskool Waterkloof

Afrikaans

English

Maths

Science

Geography

Woodwork

TECHNICAL MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

PERSONAL Team player, Honest, Ability to work under pressure, Accuracy, Adaptability, Analyzing problems, Attention to detail, Brainstorming and can think outside the box

PROFFESIONAL Client Relations, Communication, Customer Service ACHIEVEMENTS Ironman Triathlon – 2000, 2001, 2005, 2009, Comrades Marathon – 2000 - Cycle of life tour (Tshwane to Cape Town) – 2004 E M P L O Y M E N T

Present DIRECTOR – Private business

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2000 – 2017 COMMANDER (STATION OFFICER) – Tshwane (Pretoria) Emergency Services Overseeing of daily work on fire station.

Managing crews.

Fleet management of vehicles.

Health and safety reports.

Administration work.

Attending to patients.

Management of fire, rescue and medical incidents.

Meetings with different entities, from management to local government. Achievements:

Vehicle Extrication and Rescue Competitions – Representing Tshwane Emergency Management Service

International - South Africa - 2001 – Placed 6th

International - Prague - 2002 – Placed 11th

National - South Africa – 2003 – Placed 3rd

All Africa - South Africa – 2007 – Placed 2nd

2011 BUDDYMED REMOTE SITE SERVICES (CONTRACTUAL) – Democratic Republic of Congo – Anglo America

Overseeing of personnel wellbeing medical and trauma. Part of health and safety team. Implementing measures to curb and stop the spread of Cholera outbreak.

1994 – 1997 FIREFIGHTER / MEDIC – Sandton Fire and Emergency Service (Johannesburg) Cleaning of equipment.

Attending different incidents e.g. fires, medical. Present FORENSICS FIRE INVESTIGATOR – FCI Investigations Doing investigations on fire related incidents.

Differentiate between arson, incidery fires and non-arson incidents. Present FORENSICS FIRE INVESTIGATOR – Rural Metro

Doing investigations on fire related incidents.

Differentiate between arson, incidery fires and non-arson incidents. Present CONSULTING- DOING LECTURES – Little tree house consulting services Giving lectures to different companies for employees on work related subjects.

Sept 1989 – Aug 1996 ONSITE SITE SAFETY OFFICER AND INCIDENT COMMAND – Rural metro Onboard MV Global Gallard ship Sanitisation of Covid 19 at Richards’s bay Overseeing the safety of personnel and crew for the sanitization of Covid 19 onboard of a ship.

Managing incidents on the ship and crew.

Position private business.

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R E F E R E N C E

MR STEVEN COMBRINK

Deputy Chief Fire Officer

Tshwane Emergency management Service

+27-82-464-**** / +27-11-358-****

MR SAM MAROTA

Divisional Officer Operational

Tshwane Emergency services

+27-78-285-****

LUCHAS STEENKAMP

Owner

FCI investigations

+27 7041745

Please note these References also travel and may not always be available immediately.

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