FIRE CAPTAIN

Job Description and Duties

Under direction, to supervise the work of an engine company(s) and hand crews, with other Fire Captains share in the management of a fire station including the maintenance of emergency apparatus and equipment, or to perform full-time duties in one of the following specialty assignments: (1) peace officer/fire prevention duties within a unit, (2) serve as a dispatcher, (3) serve as an assistant air attack program coordinator, (4) serve as a helitack captain, (5) supervise crews in conservation camps and fire centers and operate crew-carrying vehicles and fire apparatus, (6) serve as an instructor at the Fire Academy and other training assignments, or (7) supervise fuels reduction crews, and to do other related work.

Plans and assigns work, gives instructions, maintains discipline, and makes decisions relating to the supervision of engine companies and hand crews engaged in fighting wildland, structural, or other fires, flood control, hazardous materials incidents, emergency responses, vehicle extrication incidents, and other emergency activities, may occasionally perform minor maintenance on buildings and fire stations/camps, supervises projects related to resource management, fuels reduction projects using prescribed fire and equipment, trains a company to fight fire and operate tools, supervises and performs the construction and maintenance of fire defense improvements, inspects, supervises the use of, and performs preventive and minor maintenance on assigned equipment, transports a crew over mountainous roads, operates fire apparatus, power tools (e.g., chain saws), and heavy equipment during emergency incidents and nonemergency project work, assists in the preparation and maintenance of a fire prevention plan, applies and enforces fire prevention laws, conducts fire prevention education programs, installs and supervises exhibits and displays, issues citations and makes investigations and reports on the cause and origin of fires, collects and preserves evidence, makes inspections for enforcement of Titles 19 and 25 of the California Administrative Code, performs dispatching of resources, performs as fire information officer, supervises the air attack base crew, serves as controller in airport operations, leads a helitack crew, conducts classroom and field training including the preparation of lesson plans and the evaluation of student performance, evaluates work of assigned employees, reads and uses maps, may assist others in performing accounting, budgeting, personnel, and material management tasks, keeps records, writes and submits reports as required, and does other related work.

Note:

Fuels Reduction Crews positions exist within the units.

Duties include:

implementation of approved prescribed fire and fuels reductions project utilizing assigned personnel, maintain fuel reduction records, review and assessment of burn plan for implementation for units, administer orientation and training to assigned personnel.

Hiring Process

Applications will be processed in rounds with the following cut-off dates:

* March 6, 2026

* May 8, 2026

* July 8, 2026

* September 8, 2026

Applications submitted after the cut-off date will be processed in the next group and considered in the following round.

Working Conditions

Demonstrates good judgment in emergency situations, willingness to live and work in isolated areas away from population centers and to work on weekends/holidays, willingness to remain on duty 24 hrs a day as required, emotional stability, demonstrated leadership ability, high standards of morals and speech, satisfactory record as a law-abiding citizen, sympathetic understanding of inmate rehab. programs, distant visual acuity(Snellen) of not less than 20/100 without corrective lenses in each eye, separately corrected to not less than 20/40 in one eye with corrective lenses, distant binocular acuity(Snellen) of at least 20/40 in both eyes with or without corrective lenses, color vision adequate to successfully perform the job as measured by the Ishihara Pseudo-Chromatic Plate Test, or for persons failing the Ishihara, the Farnsworth D-15 Arrangement Test, normal hearing, normal…