Aircraft Pilot - Wildland Fire Pilot; PCN

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry & Fire Protection,is recruiting for a Wildland Fire Pilot in Palmer, Alaska. What You Will Be Doing:

The Division of Forestry and Fire Protection’s Aviation Section is recruiting for an Aircraft Pilot 1 to provide support during Alaska’s busy fire season. Travel throughout the state to support efforts to suppress Alaska’s wildfires. Qualified candidates will be used primarily on tactical fire missions, which will include low level birddog/lead plane/ASM assignments as well as those requesting logistical support for preparedness and fire activity.

Previous fire experience is desired, but we are willing to train the qualified applicant.

The State’s Division of Forestry and Fire Protection provides fire protection services and related fire and aviation management activities on 150 million acres of land throughout Alaska, all while facing the challenges of a continually changing wildfire environment. The goal of the DOFFP Fire and Aviation Program is to provide safe, cost-effective, and efficient fire protection services and related fire and aviation management activities to protect natural resources and human life on State, private, and municipal lands, in a manner commensurate with the values at risk.

• You will be a part of something greater than yourself
• You will have a sense of family and civic purpose
• You will gain useful knowledge within the fire and aviation industry

This Position is based in Palmer, AK.
Fire is a very dynamic and fast-paced work environment requiring great attention to detail and safety standards.

• Stress Tolerance: Deals calmly and effectively with high stress situations (for example, tight deadlines, hostile individuals, emergency situations, dangerous situations).
• Critical Thinking: Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Risk Management: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools used for risk assessment and mitigation, including assessment of failures and their consequences.

As part of the examination process, the employing department will require successful completion of a flight check and approval from a certified flight instructor in the make and model of craft to be flown.

AND

Applicable hours as PIC of appropriate category and class of aircraft predominantly flown by the position that includes sufficient flying time to safely and effectively operate aircraft in the geography, topography, and weather conditions equivalent to those predominantly encountered in the position’s Alaskan areas of operation.

• It is required that pilots hold a Commercial certificate, an instrument rating, a multi-engine rating, and a Class II medical. Division of Forestry and Fire Protection Pilots must have a minimum of 1500 hours with 1200 hours PIC, 75 hours instrument, 100 hours in the last 12 months and 250 hours of Alaskan experience or similar. It is desired to have 200 hours of multi-engine time.
• It is the pilot’s responsibility to ensure the aircraft is properly prepared for the intended mission. Ability to consistently operate aircraft in a safe manner in adverse conditions, following all the applicable Federal Aviation…