Salary: $4,299.00 - $6,539.00 Monthly
Location: Okanogan County – Okanogan, WA
Job Type: Full Time - Permanent
Department: Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
Opening Date: 07/02/2024
Closing Date: Continuous
In this dynamic role, you will increase fuels and fire effects monitoring to determine treatment effectiveness and to drive science-based landscape management decisions.
With your experience, you will conduct burns regularly across WDFW jurisdiction and other cooperating ownership boundaries.
You thrive on building collaboration and teamwork, working with local communities and other agencies to manage their surrounding landscapes by supporting and providing experience, planning, state guidelines, training, and resources when possible.
Duties
Supervision:
Provides technical and administrative supervision to develop, maintain and lead a fully integrated and functionally coordinated team of professional members, supervision of four Wildfire Operations Technician 2 levels to accomplish overall ecological fire management.
Completes administrative work such as time documentation, hiring paperwork, agency training, purchasing of equipment and necessary items for the crew, and other miscellaneous paperwork to keep the crew fully functioning.
Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets, and adjusts priorities. Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of the employees.
Develops performance standards and evaluates work performance of subordinates. Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
Equipment Operation and Maintenance:
Ability to operate various types of equipment such as 4-wheel drive vehicles, type 6 fire engine, various equipment trailers, backhoe operations, all-terrain vehicles (UTV & ATV), chainsaws and hand tools in a safe and efficient manner.
Ability to provide basic equipment maintenance and training to subordinates, such as troubleshooting pumps, tool maintenance and maintain them in a fire ready condition.
Ability to organize and track inventories of fire line equipment so there is accountability of equipment and costs.
Training and Preparedness:
Being a Fully qualified NWCG Instructor for 200 Level classes.
Performs as Course Coordinator or as Unit instructor for any NWCG S-200 level course.
Helps develop training plans with the assistance from fire staff. Develops the training plan for all WFOPT2 crew members and other DFW staff.
Develops and coordinate RT-130 Fire Refresher and develops the course material for the Prescribed Fire Program Orientation.
Administrative:
Develop and maintain records of Rx burns, Wildfire Suppression, personnel participation, costs of preparing for and implementing Rx burns, Develop and maintain equipment inventory, Equipment acquisition and repair.
Maintain budget tracking logs and work with Finance for assistance when applicable. Assist in developing IQS fire training record storage and retrieval system for WDFW.
Maintain pertinent employee tracking records and the completions of position task books for certification.
Fire Effects Monitoring and Burn Site planning:
Under the supervision of the Fire Unit Manager and in collaboration with agency foresters, wildlife biologists, and WLA Managers, help develop and implement fire effects monitoring and inventory needs of the agency.
Assists the Unit Manager in planning and layout of the prescribed burn site locations and effectiveness to meet overall WDFW goals and objectives.
Other Duties as Assigned:
Be mentally and physically ready for wildland fire suppression activities or assignments as needed.
Assist other programs/ wildlife areas to improve wildlife habitat and land management objectives.
During non-fire periods, collaborates with agency foresters, wildlife biologists, and WLA Managers to conduct miscellaneous duties such as forest thinning, fence repair/ construction, weed abatement, hazard tree removal, etc.
