Wildland Firefighter - Fuels Management Specialist

Position: Wildland Firefighter 3 - Fuels Management Specialist
Location: Libby

Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation's mission is to help ensure that Montana's land and water resources provide benefits for present and future generations.

The DNRC believes employees are their most important asset. The DNRC empowers employees to exercise professional judgment in carrying out their duties. Employees are provided with the training and tools necessary to achieve the mission. Both team effort and individual employee expertise are supported and sustained.

Core Values:

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation's Forestry and Trust Land Division recognizes that building a collaborative, professional, and inclusive work environment is critical to fulfilling our mission of managing, protecting, and promoting stewardship of Montana's forests and lands for the benefit of current and future generations and our trust beneficiaries. We hold ourselves to these high standards as we are accountable to the people of Montana.

* We value and respect each other.

* We create collaborative work environments.

* We build and maintain strong relationships.

* We practice accountability.

* We celebrate our successes and take pride in our work

Unit Overview:

Libby Unit represents the DNRC Forestry and Trust Land Management Division within its assigned areas in Lincoln County. Libby Unit conducts field activities and is responsible for all day-to-day operations of this Division within the geographical area. The Unit provides direct wildland fire suppression service for approximately 390,000 acres of state, private, and federal land. A substantial portion of the land area is wildland residential interface, which presents a complex fire-management situation.

The Unit assists the State/County Cooperative Fire Program in Lincoln County and aids the county and their rural fire departments as needed. Libby Unit manages and administers approximately 30,218 acres of state-owned land. On these lands, the State maintains a significant forest-management program that includes forest-product sales and forest-improvement projects. In addition, the Unit is responsible for administration of commercial leases, several residential leases, rights-of-way, grazing leases, and gravel pit development and sales, as well as management of recreational use.

Libby Unit administers the Good Neighbor Authority Program (GNA) for the state of Montana on the Kootenai National Forest. Through partnership and agreement, the GNA program looks to increase the pace and scale of forest management with our federal partners.

Job Overview:

This Fuels Management Specialist position is located at Libby Unit and is a crucial position that will provide leadership in the fire program and expertise to various other programs within Libby Unit. (Trust Lands, Good Neighbor Authority, Forestry Assistance, etc.) This position emphasizes prescribed fire and fuels management for the Libby Unit and the state of Montana. The incumbent plans, coordinates, and implements prescribed fire projects;

develops burn plans and treatment prescriptions; oversees smoke and fire effects monitoring; coordinates hazardous wildland fuels treatments on state, federal, and private land; and ensures compliance with applicable laws, policies, and interagency standards. The position also supports wildland fire suppression readiness and coordination, assists with Trust Land Management and Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) forestry tasks, performs administrative duties, and manages grants to support fuels projects.

Additionally, the position may assist the Fire Management Officer (FMO) with supervision of seasonal staff when grant funding and FTE is available. (Subject to change with organizational need and FMO discretion). This position reports directly to the Libby Unit FMO (position #6098). The incumbent serves as both an internal resource to DNRC personnel and to key DNRC partners in local, state, and federal government.

The Fuels Management Specialist works to build and maintain the capacity of the Libby Unit Fuels Program by providing technical assistance in support of the DNRC mission and affiliated programs of the Trust Lands and Forestry…