Supervisory Wildland Firefighter (Fire Helicopter Crew Supervisor)
As a Supervisory Wildland Firefighter (Fire Helicopter Crew Supervisor) your duties will include but are not limited to the following:
- Plans, assigns, and evaluates all work accomplished by a helicopter crew through two subordinate supervisors.
- Performs administrative duties such as planning, budget formulation, and stewardship of facilities, equipment, vehicles, property, crew, as well as training programs and any cooperative agreements.
- Directs helitack mission planning, including briefings of pilots, contract personnel and crews on mission requirements.
- Directs assigned suppression operations and implements recommended tactical strategy on attacking, controlling, or mopping up fires, building or patrolling firelines, felling snags and cutting brush.
- Maintains working relationships and pre-incident coordination with applicable cooperators and wildland fire responders.