Responsibilities

Duties listed are at full performance grade GS-12 level.

• Provide program management oversight for a high complexity fire/fuels management program, based on IFPM complexity analysis rating factors.
• Develop fuels treatment alternatives to support management decisions while adhering to applicable laws, regulations, policies, and guidelines.
• Evaluate individual fuels treatments as well as the effectiveness of the overall program and makes recommendations for improvement.
• Implement and administer prescribed fire activities, wildland fire use, and fuels management activities. Monitor fire behavior, evaluates fire effects and identify potential problems.
• Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team planning, developing, and implementing land management plans, compliance documents, and agreements.
• Performs fiscal analysis, formulates the annual fuels management budget, and tracks program expenditures.
• Ensures welfare and safety in all aspects of project implementation and identifies training needs in fire and fuels management.
• Coordinates multi-disciplinary field studies related to fuels management program issues to determine effectiveness of treatments.
• Maintains awareness of technological developments in wildland fire science and related disciplines. Collects information through a variety of methods, including field surveys, computer modeling, and specific literature searches.
• Stays abreast of state-of-the-art computer modeling software and scientific methods to support fire use, air quality, and fuel treatment planning and applications.
• Disseminates information on technological advancements in the field of natural resources management for use in land use planning and other activities.

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