Correctional Forest Crew Supervisor

Forest Crew Supervisor – Correction Facilities (FCS-CF)
Full-time, Non-permanent, Represented position (WPEA)
Anticipated Non-permanent employment is 18 months.
Location: Northeast Region- Airway Heights, WA

Salary: $4,300.00 - $5,779.00 Monthly

Review of applications is ongoing. We reserve the right to make a hiring decision or close this recruitment at any time after 8/5/26. It is in your best interest to submit materials as soon as possible.

Responsibilities:
Leads, supervises, instructs, and evaluates incarcerated individuals on how to safely and effectively participate as a member of a “Hand Crew” for the purpose of engaging in Initial Attack and Mop-up operations to suppress wildland fires.

• Supervises and leads crew members in wildfire suppression ranging from initial attack, fire line construction, mop-up, gridding, and repair.
• Communicates all directions and objectives to crew members and ensures they are met safely, efficiently, and on time.
• Ensures that all crew members are fireline-qualified and maintains crew readiness for emergency incident response.
• Assesses crew’s physical condition and corrects any issues when they arise.
• Communicates and documents any needs of crew members to Camp Manager, DOC personnel, or, if assigned to a project incident, the liaison.

Provides essential supervisory and security functions while supervising incarcerated individuals' work crews.

• Takes custody of incarcerated individuals at check-out from the institution.
• Monitors incarcerated individuals’ movements at close range or from a distance.
• Visually monitors all security areas, including jobsites, and works on emergency incidents.
• Enforces DNR/DOC rules and policies.
• Initiates corrective or disciplinary action as required.
• Adheres to established staff safety practices for themselves, the crew members, and the public.
• Attends annual DOC trainings and refreshers to include PREA, Escape Protocol, Key and Tool Control, and Manipulative Awareness.
• Uses de-escalation skills during stressful situations.

Trains, instructs, and supervises incarcerated individual work crews to safely, effectively, and efficiently conduct work on silviculture and forest health work projects.

• Supervises silviculture activities such as planting, pre-commercial thinning, vegetation management, riparian habitat enhancement, and stream restoration.
• Demonstrates and teaches safe use and maintenance of power equipment and hand tools such as chainsaws, woodchippers, wood splitters, and fire line tools.
• Teaches crew members plant and tree identification.  
• Supervises and ensures that all prescriptions given by the contractor are adhered to.
• Teaches proper timber felling techniques to crew members.

Completes necessary administrative and transportation-related tasks required of the position.

• Maintains daily job card documentation that includes formal incarcerated individual counts per DNR/DOC inter-agency agreement, job information, and hours worked on job that day. 
• Maintains crew member payroll and enters pay daily in the ITAR computer system.
• Communicates with incarcerated individuals assigned counselor and conducts frequent evaluations for each individual assigned to their crew. 

Required Qualifications: 
You must meet all the Required Qualifications and Competencies to be considered for this position. There are multiple pathways to meet qualifications, such as education, volunteer work, life skills, and experience.  Please clearly communicate in your application material that your skills align with the position and qualifications. 
 

• Experience in some or all of the following forest crafts, which includes: Forest seedling planting, forest plantation, vegetation management, pre-commercial thinning, recreation trail and facilities construction and maintenance, chainsaw use and maintenance, hand tool use and maintenance, and wildland fire suppression.
  OR technical/professional forestry knowledge and skills which are acquired through the completion of a 2 or 4-year degree in forest management or closely related field, program, or study.
• Six months of supervisory experience either in an adult/juvenile correctional environment or a professional production-based business.
• Supervisory experience in a diverse work setting that is centered on safety and security.