Wildland Firefighter

**Duties**:

- Leads and directs suppression operations on attacking, controlling, or mopping up fires; building or patrolling fire lines; cleaning up burned areas; suppressing spot fires; felling snags, trees, and cutting brush.
- Quickly adjusts actions based on evolving information and situational awareness.
- Reassesses and adjusts escape routes and safety zones.
- Coordinates with aircraft, module, and crew logistics to place caches of equipment and supplies at strategic points.
- Operates, moves, inspects, and performs preventative maintenance on vehicles and equipment.
- Identifies lookout locations and assigns a lookout; scouts fireline in critical areas and patrols fireline for spot fires and slop overs.
- Directs the operation and use of special tools and equipment such as power saws, portable pumps, firing devices, and programming radio frequencies.
- Directs and ensures readiness of vehicles, equipment and supplies for daily and emergent work assignments.
- Directs moderately complex fuels management projects by conducting assessments, planning, preparing, and implementing treatments.
- Mentors, instructs, and directs lower graded wildland firefighters in the building firelines, burning out, mopping up, and patrolling fire lines.
- Conducts on-the-job training on the use of wildland firefighting tools and equipment.
- Accounts for crewmembers’ location, health, safety, and welfare.
- Performs administrative recordkeeping such as timekeeping, travel, charge card, training, crew accomplishments, and performance concerns.
- This is a career seasonal position. You will be in pay status for at least 6 months, but less than 12 months per calendar year. When work and/or funds are unavailable, you will be placed into non-pay status.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- You cannot hold an active real estate license: nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.
- Direct Deposit Required.
- Your resume must contain enough information to show that you meet the qualification requirements as defined in the announcement. In addition, your responses to the questions must adequately reflect in your resume.
- This position requires regular and recurring overtime and shift work.
- This position requires you to wear an officially-approved uniform while in a duty status.
- You must be 18 years of age or older to be assigned to a hazardous position.
- You must pass a pre-employment physical.
- You must meet specified levels on annual physical fitness tests, and pass periodic medical exams for wild land fire personnel, commensurate with current incident management qualifications.
- You must also pass the work capacity test for arduous positions.
- An applicant appointed to this position must possess and maintain a valid state driver's license while employed in this position.
- May require a one year probationary period.
- This is a Bargaining Unit position.

**Qualifications**:
**Selective Placement Factors**: This position requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. Those who do not provide evidence they possess the following selective factor(s) will be rated not qualified.
**For the GS-6**:
Firefighter Type 1 (FFT1) **-AND-**
Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior (S-290)
- **For the GS-7**:
Incident Commander Type 5 (ICT5) **-AND-**
Crew Boss Single Resource (CRWB)
- Wildland fire is defined as any non-structure fire that occurs in the wildland. Two distinct types of wildland fire have been defined and include wildfire and prescribed fire:

- Wildfire - An unplanned ignitions or prescribed fires that are declared wildfires.
- Prescribed Fire - Planned ignitions. This description includes only fire line experience on a Prescribed Fire; it does not include experience in the planning stages. Prescribed fire experience must be supplemented by fire suppression experience in order to be creditable as previous wildland firefighting experience.
- In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the qualification requirements - please be sure to include this information in your resume. No assumptions will be made about your experience.
- **Specialized Experience**:In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the qualification requirements - please be sure to include this information in your resume. No assumptions will be made about your experience.
- You must possess one (1) full year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the level that is equivalent in difficulty and complexity as indicated by the following examples:

- **For the GS-06**:Under direct supervision, serving as a GS-05 senior wildland firefighter on a handcrew, wildland or prescribed fire module, as chainsaw operator (including maintenance and minor repairs), preparing and hookin