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This position is located on the Shoshone National Forest in Cody, Wyoming. The incumbent serves in a key fire management position in a field fire management organization as a Fire Management Specialist (Fuels Planner). For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Clint W Dawson at 307-578-5180 or clint.dawson@usda.gov.
Major Duties
- Responsible for managing and applying wildland fire planning processes, information, and procedures using highly specialized analytical and technical tools.
- Performs data collection and evaluation of fire hazard risk, fuels, historic fire occurrence, fire effects, climatology and weather.
- Reviews and validates data for adequacy, appropriateness, and accuracy. Ensures data used is analyses is timely, accurate, and defensible within established standards.
- Serves as a member of an interdisciplinary team planning, developing and implementing land management plans, compliance documents, and agreements.
- Provides input and recommends strategies for fuels and fire management. Provides assistance to other resource program managers in the design of fuels management prescriptions and implementation plans.
- Provides information on fuels management methods to enhance, restore and protect ecosystems. If qualified to do so, may prepare or review implementation plans such as prescribed fire plans or silvicultural prescriptions.
- Participates in the development, review and modification of the fire management plans. Develops, reviews and monitors fuels management plans.
- Works closely with other resource specialists to integrate vegetation management projects designs in fuels program direction.
- Reviews environmental documents and fire management plans of other agencies and stakeholders which will affect the unit.
- Provides analysis for wildland fire risk assessments incorporating wildland/urban interface considerations into all agreements, operating plans and land and fire management plans.
- Participates in the development of cooperative agreements to facilitate multi-agency projects.
- Provides professional expertise in the development of resource objectives and guidance for implementation of projects and programs.
- Develops fuels treatment alternatives to support management decisions while adhering to applicable laws, regulations, policies and guidelines.
- Evaluates individual fuels treatments as well as the effectiveness of the overall program and make recommendations for improvement.
- Responsible for the smoke management program to ensure compliance with state air quality standards. Coordinates with federal, state, and local government air quality officials in their development of operational procedures and reporting requirements.
- Performs fiscal analysis, formulates the annual fuels management budget, and maintains a system of accounts to track program expenditures. This includes managing the budget from out-year planning to year-end closure.
- Coordinates with the next higher organizational level, other agencies, cooperators, and stakeholders to develop interagency fuels strategies. Represents the organization in multi-agency fuels management activities.
- 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.
- Coordinates multi-disciplinary field studies related to fuels management program issues to determine effectiveness of treatments. Coordinates and provides transfer of findings to the appropriate personnel.
Qualifications
In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. Basic Requirement: Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement (or date of referral if an Open Continuous announcement) as defined below. For more information on the qualifications for this position, go to: http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/IORs/gs0400/0401.htmDegree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position.
OR Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in a major field of study that included 24 semester hours in course work in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. Related course work generally refers to courses that may be accepted as part of the program major.
OR
Combination of education and experience that included 24 semester hours in course work in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position, AND experience sufficient to demonstrate that I possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform work in the occupation that is comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of a full 4-year course of study with a major in the appropriate field needed to perform the work of the occupation. In addition to the above basic requirement applicants must also meet: Specialized Experience Requirement: For the GS-09: You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 in the Federal service. Must include experience in at least two of the following three categories: 1. Experience that demonstrated understanding of fire effects on cultural and natural resources. The assignments must have shown participation in activities such as: - Developing fire management plans to ensure resource objectives can be met from a fire management standpoint; or
- Conducting field inspections before and/or after prescribed fires or wildland fires to determine if defined resource objectives have been met. 2. Prescribed fire/fuels management - experience in activities such as: - Professional forest or range inventory methods and procedures (e.g., Brown's planar intercept for dead and down fuels; live fuel loading assessments), or
- Analysis of fuel loadings and determination of appropriate fuel treatment methods and programming, or
- Evaluating prescribed fire plans or fire management plans to ensure fire containment is possible and identify appropriate suppression contingencies if containment is not obtained. 3. Fire management operations - analyzing and applying fire management strategies, plus experience in at least four of the following activities: - Mobilization and dispatch coordination
- Fire prevention
- Training
- Logistics
- Equipment development and deployment
- Fire communications systems
- Suppression and preparedness For the GS-11: One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level. Experience at GS-09 level must have included all of the fire program management elements as described below: Reviewing and evaluating fire management plans for ecological soundness and technical adequacy; and Conducting field inspections before and after prescribed or wildland fires to determine if resource objectives were achieved and/or to evaluate the effectiveness of actions taken; and Developing analyses on the ecological role of fire and its use and/or exclusion, and smoke management. In addition to fire program management, appropriate experience must have included either prescribed fire/fuels management - or - fire management operations as described below: Prescribed fire/fuels management - experience in a broad range of activities such as: Professional forest or range inventory methods and procedures (e.g., Brown's planar intercept for dead and down fuels; live fuel loading assessments); Analysis of fuel loadings and determination of appropriate fuel treatment methods and programming; Land use planning and environmental coordination; Evaluation of prescribed burn plans or fire management plans to ensure fire containment is possible and identification of appropriate suppression contingencies if containment is not obtained. Fire management operations - analyzing and applying fire management strategies, plus experience in at least five of the following activities: Mobilization and dispatch coordination Fire prevention and education Training Logistics Equipment development and deployment Fire communication systems Suppression and preparedness Aviation Selective Placement Factor:
A minimum 90 days experience performing on-the-line (Primary/Rigorous) wildland fire suppression duties as a member of an organized fire suppression crew or comparable unit that utilized knowledge of wildland fire suppression, containment or control techniques and practices under various conditions. This experience must be documented with specific dates in the online application or resume.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Pay Range
$51,440.00 - $80,912.00