Forestry technician (prevention)

Duties and responsibilities:

- While on patrol or assigned to a station, establishes contact with Forest users, visitors, and local residents.
- Provides information to them regarding fire danger levels and advises them of precautions they can take to prevent the occurrence of destructive fires.
- Also explains pertinent laws and regulations.
- Distributes and explains fire prevention literature; posts signs; and issues permits for allowed uses requiring permits. Inspects permitted use areas.
- Detects and suppresses fires while patrolling the Forest.
- Determines the need for assistance and requests resources.
- Assists with fire dispatch through operation of radios, telephones, and other necessary equipment to exchange information for fire weather and other forest suppression activities.
- Develops fire control plans and documents, including pre-suppression, prevention, detection, and suppression tactics and strategies.
- Contributes to the compilation, review, and/or distribution of fire hazard and risk data.
- Collaborates in the planning of wildland fire suppression and prescribed burning operations.
- Assists in the determination of resources required for pre-suppression and suppression activities.
- Provides technical advice and support to districts to ensure integration of fire ecology and effects into all documents, plans, and projects.
- Supports long-range fire behavior prediction science and climatology.
- Assists in the establishment and operation of training programs.

Qualifications and Evaluations

- Have a minimum 90 days experience performing wildland fire suppression duties as a member of an organized fire suppression crew or comparable unit that utilized knowledge of fire suppression, containment or control techniques and practices under various conditions.

Minimum federal qualifications requirements

• Grade 06: Qualifying experience for the GS-6 level includes one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-5. Specialized experience is experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

- Substitution of education for experience:  The experience requirements for the GS-6 level may be met by completion of 6 months of graduate level education in a position-related field of forestry or natural resources management.

- Combination odf education and experience: Equivalent combinations of successfully completed education and experience may be used to meet the experience requirements.

• Grade 07: Qualifying experience for the GS-7 level includes one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-6. Specialized experience is experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

- Substitution of education for experience: The experience requirements for the GS-7 level may be met by completion of one (1) year of graduate level education in a position-related field of forestry or natural resources management.

- Combination odf education and experience: Equivalent combinations of successfully completed education and experience may be used to meet the experience requirements.