Wildland Firefighter (Fire Dispatcher)

Department of Agriculture

This position is located USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region, Region 5. This may be a single agency dispatch office or interagency dispatch center located in a fire management organization. The area involved may encompass federal, state, tribal and private lands within the dispatch center's area of influence. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact - Brian Grabowski - brian.grabowski@usda.gov

• Duties listed are at full performance grade GW-05 level.
• Follows established procedures to perform a variety of technical duties common to the dispatch of personnel, equipment, aircraft and/or supplies according to pre-defined plans or in response to resource orders from the field.
• Initiates requests to higher organizational levels for additional resources as needed. Maintains resource status and tracking systems and operates telecommunications systems.
• Collects, processes, collates and submits incident information to support fire operations (e.g. fire reports, smoke permits, spot weather forecasts, prescribed fire burn requests).
• Organizes and reviews completed records of all orders placed and actions taken to ensure adherence to established operating procedures.

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