Program Supervisor - Unit Fire Management Officer

Job Description
- Program Supervisor
- Unit Fire Management Officer )

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.

• We value and respect each other.
• We create collaborative work environments.
• We build and maintain strong relationships.
• We celebrate our successes and take pride in our work

Stillwater Unit represents DNRC’s Forestry and Trust Land Management divisions within its assigned areas in Flathead and Lincoln counties. The Unit conducts field activities and is responsible for all day-to-day operations of these Divisions within the geographical area. The Unit provides direct wildland fire-suppression services for approximately 150,000 acres of State, private and Federal land. A 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 Flathead and Lincoln counties and provides assistance to these counties and their rural fire departments as needed. Stillwater Unit manages and administers 135,000 acres of State-owned land. On these lands the State is responsible for lease administration, rights-of-way, grazing, forest-product sales, forest-improvement projects, gravel permits, other uses, and administration of the Recreational Access Law.

The Unit provides resource-management assistance and administers the logging slash hazard reduction law on all private lands. The Unit administers the Best Management Practices (BMP) and Stream side Management Zone (SMZ) resource-protection laws regulating commercial timber sale practices on all Federal, State, and private lands within the Unit boundaries.

Job Overview

This position is the Unit Fire Supervisor on Stillwater Unit and is responsible for planning, directing, and analyzing the fire-management programs and activities within the assigned geographic area; coordinating resources; and providing guidance to internal and external cooperators. This position is also assigned responsibility for supervising and training subordinate staff and other Unit employees in fire prevention, fire suppression, and readiness components of the Unit fire-management program and providing professional assistance in carrying out the Unit’s forest-management programs.

These job functions are the essential duties of the position and are not all-inclusive of all the duties that may be assigned to the incumbent.

Plans and direct Unit-wide fire management programs and activities, including developing and implementing wildland fire-prevention plans; managing program budget allocations; managing fire-readiness levels; designing and managing comprehensive initial-attack plans; analyzing changing fire-suppression trends, practices, techniques, and issues; designing and implementing comprehensive fire-management plans for counties within the protection area; designing and coordinating multiagency fire-response simulations; providing management direction for the burning-permit program within the responsibility area;

planning and organizing a seasonal work force; and coordinating and supervising building, grounds, and maintenance activities for Stillwater Unit. This requires knowledge of fire-management principles and practices; fire behavior; the fire incident command system and organization; program planning and management; standards, equipment, techniques, and methods used in wildland and urban interface fire control; fire-prevention planning and strategy; program budgeting; research methods;

initial attack and readiness planning; knowledge of Federal and State laws applicable to forest management; and skills and abilities in written…