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Website U.S. Forest Service
Job Responsibilities:
- Monitors fire behavior, fire effects, and fire weather on prescribed fires and wildland fire use.
- Provides technical and administrative supervision to handcrews, prescribed fire crews, wildland fire engine crews, or helitack crews.
- Makes initial evaluation of fire situations, determines rate of spread, suppression method to use, hose lays, deployment of crew, point of initial attack, type of tools to use and application of water.
- Provides leadership, allocates resources, and implements activities to accomplish multi-cultural organization direction and Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights requirements, goals, policies, and objectives.
- Serves as a supervisory wildland firefighter on a handcrew during initial attack fire suppression activities.
- Directs and performs prescribed fire operations including preparation, ignition, monitoring, holding, and mop up.
- Implements formal and informal training programs to comply with policy and regulations. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short term priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work.
Job Requirements:
- Willing to live/work in remote locations (volatile/unpredictable).
- Successful completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
- Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- Must be 18 years of age.
- Some Fire positions may have Conditions of Employment such as: a valid state driver’s license; a commercial driver’s license (CDL); pre-appointment and random drug testing; or a physical or medical examination.
- Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify.
Qualification & Experience:
- For the GS-07 level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-06); OR one full year (18 semester/27 quarter hours) of successfully completed graduate level coursework that is directly related to the work of the position (such as forestry, range management, agriculture); OR have a combination of graduate level education that is directly related to the position and specialized experience. The education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university.
- For the GS-06 level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-05); OR one full year (18 semester/27 quarter hours) of successfully completed graduate level coursework that is directly related to the work of the position (such as forestry, range management, agriculture). The education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university OR have a combination of graduate level education that is directly related to the position and specialized experience as defined above.
Job Details:
Company: U.S. Forest Service
Vacancy Type: Full Time
Job Location: Fairfield, ID, US
Application Deadline: N/A
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