Job Type: Permanent
Salary Details: $52,725 to $68,546 per year
Deadline: Sep 20, 2021

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Responsibilities

  • Determines preparedness and suppression needs, facilitates procurement, and formulates and prepares project plans.
  • Manages assigned property by procuring, maintaining, and inventorying hand tools, chainsaws, firing equipment, food and water provisions, and personal protective equipment, to ensure personnel meet fire readiness standards on a daily basis.
  • Assists in coordinating repairs and scheduling maintenance with approved maintenance facilities, securing temporary replacement of vehicles as needed.
  • Assists the IHC Superintendent in the planning, development and implementation of prescribed fire projects, hazardous fuel mitigation projects, and other land management projects.
  • Assists in the development of fuels management projects and work plans, collects data and completes fuels inventories, assesses fire risks and hazards, and performs pre attack planning.
  • Recognizes, reacts to and communicates changes in weather and fire behavior; topography and fuel types; and adapts planned strategies and tactics to identify and relocate firelines, escape routes and safety zones.
  • Identifies and analyzes suppression tactics and strategies employed on the fires, and revises and/or develops alternatives in view of such conditions as fuels, weather, and topography.
  • Executes prescribed burn plans for complex burn projects in a wide variety of fuel types and executes complex firing operations on wildfire incidents.
  • Plans and directs overall work to be accomplished by subordinate supervisor(s), sets and adjusts priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work.
  • Develops and implements both technical and agency specific training program for the IHC.
  • Serves as IHC Superintendent in the absence of the Superintendent as qualified.

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