Supervisory Wildland Firefighter (Interagency Hotshot Crew Superintendent)

Department of Agriculture

These positions are located on a USDA Forest Service Unit. Position serves as Superintendent of an organized, highly skilled Interagency Hotshot Crew, a national resource for wildland fire suppression activities. See ADDITIONAL INFORMATION for Regional Contacts.

• Ensures assigned personnel consistently meet fire readiness standards.
• Responsible for making on-site evaluations of conditions, making tactical decisions, and determining appropriate responses.
• Determines pre-suppression and suppression needs annually and facilitates procurement.
• Develops and implements a training program for the Hotshot Crew in compliance with applicable requirements of providing complete coverage of fire suppression, procedures, methods, techniques, and physical conditioning.
• Responsible for fire related assignments and project work, such as monitoring fuel inventories, preattack planning, brush disposal, backlog fuels disposal and preparation.

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