Responsibilities
- Implements a comprehensive physical training program to enhance the ability of crewmembers to perform the required arduous firefighting duties. Maintains personnel incident related qualification, agency requirements, and local and state laws.
- Independently or jointly develops training programs (mandatory, formal and informal) to comply with plans and implements field projects.
- Demonstrates leadership in establishing and maintaining a work environment that is free from discrimination and creates a sense of inclusion and support for all employees in the workplace.
- Duties listed are at the full performance level.
- Coordinates the activities of a unit or team of firefighters in wildland fire suppression situations.
- Performs various technical duties that involve differing and unrelated processes and methods, shifting frequently from one technical assignment to other, substantially different tasks.
- Recognizes, reacts to and communicates changes in predicted weather and fire behavior, topography and fuel types, and adapts planned strategies and tactics.
- Performs in other assignments on incidents involving wildland urban interface/intermix situations, or other incidents which may require other specialized training and qualifications; i.e. Incident Commander, etc.
- Responsible for directing a module of a 10 or 20 person Hotshot Crew, and is qualified to assume full responsibility in the absence of the Hotshot Crew Superintendent.
- Assigns resources, conducts safety meetings, monitors work quality and quantity, tracks budget expenditures, and reports work progress and project accomplishments.
- Works with other agency management objectives and policies, including the full range of suppression tactics and ecosystem management practices.
- Executes prescribed burns as a fully qualified burn boss. May also serve in the prescribed burn organization in other roles such as lighting boss, holding boss, or as qualified.
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