Wildland Firefighter (Senior Firefighter)

Department of Agriculture

These positions will be located at a USDA Forest Service Unit. The incumbent serves on a fire crew as a crewmember within the fire management organization and performs wildland fire suppression/management/control, as a firefighter on an engine, hotshot, helitack or hand crew. See ADDITIONAL INFORMATION section for the specific contact information.

• Duties listed are at full performance grade GW-05 level.
• May perform the duties of a qualified faller, saw repair technician, or certified in the use of long line.
• May assist in performing work of starting pump engine, priming pump, adjusting engine speed and pump valves, laying hose, and using appropriate nozzles and nozzle adjustment in effective use of water and additives.
• May load helicopter cargo considering methods, weight distribution, necessity for securing, total weight, etc., and completes manifests of personnel and equipment being transported to the fire or other work site.
• Will suppress the fire by moving dirt, chopping brush, felling trees, to build fire line using hand tools such as axe, Pulaski, shovel and McLeod, and power saws, to control spreading wildland fire until relieved or fire is suppressed.

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