Fuels Planner; SS

Keller - WA Overview Salary Range: $32.96 - $41.14 Hourly Description

CLOSING DATE: March 20th, 2026

POSITION: Fuels Planner

SALARY: $32.96-$41.14, per hour DOE

REPORTS TO: Fuels Manager

LOCATION: Mt Tolman, Keller, WA

Basic Functions:
Exempt. The primary purpose of this position is to direct prescribed fire/fuels management program that includes fuels management activities and functions at the district level. These functions include prescribed fire, mechanical and biological fuels treatments. At this grade level, the incumbent analyzes variables such as weather, fuels (type and condition), topography, fire behavior, management objectives and resource protection concerns, strategies and tactics, resource availability and capability, smoke impacts, employee and public safety, etc.,

and selects the appropriate strategy for implementing fuels management projects.

May be responsible for emergency stabilization and rehabilitation (ESR) or other community assistance programs.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Training:

• Typically requires a bachelor's or higher degree that includes a major field of study or specific course requirements in forestry, natural resource management, or related disciplines appropriate to the position, and 4 years of progressive experience.
• AND
• Applicant must have possessed the following qualifications and training requirements to be or have the ability to acquire within 4 years of employment to be considered eligible for this position:
• Primary Core Qualification
  :
  Engine Boss (ENGB) or Crew Boss (CRWB) or Firing Boss (FIRB), or Helicopter Manager (HMGB) or higher and Prescribed Fire Burn Boss(RXB2)
• Secondary Core Qualification
  :
  Incident Commander Type 4 (ICT4) or higher.
• The employee has a primary core requirement to be qualified as a RXB2, and a secondary core requirement to be qualified as an ICT4 or TFLD or HEBM.
• Also requires a valid driver’s license and be eligible for the Tribes’ vehicle insurance and maintain throughout employment.
• Requires a U.S. Government Motor Vehicle Operator’s Identification Card. May require certification to use/operate specialized fire equipment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Requires professional knowledge of natural resources management, fire ecology, fire behavior, and fire management theories, concepts, principles, and standards in a wildland fire environment sufficient to develop and manage a fuels management program in a district.
• Requires knowledge of the policies, techniques and practices of wildland firefighting obtained through considerable amount of service as a primary firefighter of the Federal government or in a similar firefighting position outside the federal government. This is a mandatory requirement of this position.
• Requires fundamental knowledge of related fields of science (e.g., wildlife management, botany, hydrology, geology, archaeology).
• Requires knowledge of the effects of fuels management, prescribed fire, and wildfire for resource benefit on natural and cultural resources to prepare complex fuels management plans.
• Requires knowledge of environmental laws, regulations, and policies including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Clean Air Act, Threatened and Endangered Species Act, and the Wilderness Act sufficient to produce environmentally sound and defensible documents.
• Requires knowledge of accepted wildland fire safety practices and procedures.
• Requires knowledge of computer applications and software for a variety of fuels management uses.
• Requires knowledge of budgeting policy, procedures and techniques sufficient to develop program budgets and annual work plans.
• Requires knowledge of contracting procedures and ability to serve as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR).
• Requires skill in oral and written communication sufficient to prepare reports, present training, and coordinate work efforts.
• Requires knowledge of supervisory procedures and methods to manage a fuels assistant.
• Requires the skill to manage a variety of complex prescribed fire, wildfire response, and fuels management support functions, each involving numerous procedures and operating requirements.
• Requires broad latitude for independent action…