Wildfire Mitigation Specialist

Join Our Team

Red Zone is actively seeking exceptional people to join our team. Our team creates new solutions for real-time disaster monitoring, collaborative mapping, and online geospatial applications.

Your work will contribute to public safety awareness, improve emergency response, and ultimately save lives and property. We look for intelligence, initiative, and dedication. In return, we can offer a supportive environment, a flexible schedule, a wide range of technical opportunities, and chance to be a part of something special.

Culture

You will be joining a small group of dedicated geospatial experts and software developers who strive to develop lean smart software applications. This is a position where you could lead projects, innovate, and learn new skills/technologies.

Our Work Matters

Red Zone's products provide real-time exposure analysis to people and organizations that may be threatened by natural disasters. Whether wildfire, hurricane, earthquake, or tornado, when we do our job we can help prevent–or at least minimize–potentially devastating losses suffered by families and businesses.

Accommodating Environment

Red Zone strives for a healthy, productive balance between work and personal life. We measure success by how much we're able to help our clients, not by time spent at our desks. Employees receive generous allotment for vacation and personal time, and have the ability to work remote from virtually any location in the world.

Job Title:

Wildfire Mitigation Specialist

Location:

Bozeman, MT

Type:
Full-Time, Flexible Hours, On-Call Availability Salary: $75,000 – $95,000 annually, plus additional compensation opportunities including on-call duty stipends, incident overtime, and special assignment bonuses.

About Us:

Red Zone is a leader in wildfire monitoring and emergency response, utilizing advanced technology to safeguard lives, property, and the environment. As a mission-driven team, we focus on innovation, continuous improvement, and effective disaster response. Our employees are passionate about using their skills to make a meaningful impact.

Role Overview:

For more than 2 decades, Red Zone has been transforming the way that the insurance industry understands wildfire. Our company helps some of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance companies build strategies, model portfolio impact, assess risk, and protect their assets from active wildfires.

Red Zone is seeking a dynamic, tech-savvy, and adaptable professional to join our team as a Wildfire Mitigation Specialist. This role combines elements of field operations and emergency response, fire knowledge, physical labor, risk mitigation, and safety through interagency coordination and detailed reporting.

Applicants will need to demonstrate a strong commitment to Red Zone's Core Values:

• Integrity First
• Calm Under Fire
• Absolutely Reliable
• Be of Service
• Always Innovating

Requirements

All WMS must meet established minimum requirements:

• Have three (3) years of firefighting experience with a municipal, county or federal fire agency
• Prior successful completion of NWCG annual fire safety training with physical fitness Pack Test
• Possession of state and federal certification (or willingness to complete)
  • ICS 100 (Introduction to Incident Command System)
  • ICS 200 (Basic Incident Command System)
  • S-110 (Basic Wildland Fire Suppression Orientation)
  • S-130 (Firefighter Training)
  • S-190 (Wildland Fire Behavior)
  • S-212 (Wildland Fire Chainsaws)
  • S-215 (Fire Operations in the Wildland Urban Interface)
• Possess a valid driver's license with a clean record
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Professional appearance and ability to clearly communicate clearly with homeowners and Red Zone's customers

Desirable Skills

• Working knowledge of:
  • Driver safety of a type 6 fire engine or equivalent
  • Up-to-date knowledge of home inspection techniques
  • prevention and
• Certified Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Certification (NFPA)

Ability To:

• Safely and effectively perform all wildfire prevention, mitigation, response, outreach, and reporting duties in accordance with established protocols
• Respond to in-state and out-of-state emergency incidents,…