Project Foreman/Camp Superintendent

Summary:

The Project Foreman/Camp Superintendent’s responsibilities will include but are not limited to administrative duties, such as annual training of crew members, reviewing and determining training needs to maintain crew qualifications, timekeeping, and record keeping. Oversees camp duties, including assigning, maintaining, and enforcing a camp cleaning schedule. Ensuring all utilities are maintained and resupply/restock of supplies for camp use. In charge of keeping project crew vehicles clean and up to date for maintenance on an ongoing basis. Coordinates with Yukon and Denali overhead in assigning rooms as well as room inspections to meet camp cleanliness requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Supervisory:

• Supervises the Project squad of up to 10 employees and may occasionally include the Yukon, the Denali crew, or both on the project site.
• Implements the department's management policy and operating procedures and ensures employee compliance.
• Recommends promotions, commends outstanding performance, takes minor disciplinary action when needed, resolves employee complaints, and completes the standard evaluation forms for each employee.
• Assists in recruiting and selecting crew personnel and establishing crew policies and procedures.
• Determines strategy and tactics for projects.
• Coordinates and provides the project squad's direction, training, and development.
• Coordinates and assists in the development and presentation of training for crewmembers in the use of tools and equipment, safety, and first aid.
• Maintains employee time and attendance reports.
• Directs crewmembers in the maintenance and repair of tools and equipment.
• Serves as staff specialist on appropriate crew-related issues and projects.
• Directs the development of crew safety procedures and ensures that crewmembers perform assignments in a safe manner.
• Ensures that the crew is properly equipped to perform the assigned duties.
• Performs fuel reduction education functions as assigned.
• Contributes and maintains a positive and safe work attitude and environment.
• Oversee, coordinate, assign, and maintain camp duties.
• Ensure project squad vehicles are cleaned and up to date on maintenance daily.
• Ensure camp supplies are restocked/resupplied when needed.
• Ensure camp utilities are functioning and maintained.

Non-Supervisory (when assigned to fire crew on a wildland fire assignment):

• Applies working knowledge of detailed procedures in performing various fire suppression and prescribed fire functions.

• Completes required training.
• Performs daily physical conditioning program.
• Serves as a crewmember involved with a wide variety of wildfires suppression, fire preparedness, prescribed fire, and project work duties.
• Uses and maintains related and specialized tools and equipment that may include hand tools, chainsaws, engines, pumps, and firing devices.
• Maintains safe working procedures and environment.
• Contributes and maintains a positive and safe work attitude.
• Responsible for returning all gear assigned for the fire season for both Chugachmiut and DOF.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required.

Qualifications:

• One year of firefighting experience that is directly related to the described duties or other experience and education that has equipped the incumbent with particular knowledge, skills, and abilities identified to perform the work successfully.
• A valid driver’s license is required.
• Qualify to meet the Incident Command System (ICS) minimum red card qualifications of S-190/S-130/L-180/I-100
• The incumbent must pass the arduous duty work capacity test (“Pack Test”), which consists of carrying a 45-pound pack for 3 miles in 45 minutes.

Knowledge, Abilities, and Skills:

• Knowledge of federal and state fire regulations.
• Skill and ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and orally.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Knowledge of personnel, fiscal, property, and purchasing guidelines and procedures.
• Knowledge of wildfire suppression techniques sufficient to determine strategy and tactics.
• Knowledge of crew organization and safety procedures.
• Knowledge of Fuels Reduction Project organization and safety procedures.
• Knowledge of air operations and safety procedures.

Physical Environment:

The following demands are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. The position requires: the ability to sit for a long period of time, a normal range of hearing and eyesight, eye-hand coordination, and manual dexterity to operate office equipment such as computer keyboard, photocopier, telephone, calculator, and may be required to lift approximately 30 pounds. Travel to remote locations by boat, snowmobile, ATV, or small plane is required, and employees must be willing and able to travel.

In addition, the physical demands of the position require that the incumbent be in good physical condition. Fieldwork involves rigorous outdoor hiking, boating, and flying under adverse weather conditions. Fire duty involves exposure to rigorous outdoor conditions and exposure to smoke and extreme environmental hazards. This position requires extensive travel, extended hours, and widely varied work environments, remote and/or rugged terrain where climate conditions are variable and extreme, including remote physical areas, high altitudes, dangerous animals, and some degree of physical danger.

Due to the complexity of the position, each fire incident presents varied and unique problems. The work may be performed on a small initial attack response up to a highly complex fire involving large acreage, multiple camps, numerous people, and air operations. Work may be performed for extensive periods of time physically removed from the immediate supervision of Chugachmiut and the DNR Department of Forestry duty station.

As a part of the normal work situation, the Department of Natural Resources will be responsible for assisting in providing daily operational control and direction. Assignments will be performed with direct supervision and require the application of initiative and creativity in accomplishing tasks.

Hours of Work:

The position will be full-time seasonal, with approximately a 3-month appointment. Hours of work are Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with one hour lunch. The duty station will be in Kenai, Alaska.

This position will utilize the following supervisory controls: Chugachmiut and State of Alaska – Department of Natural Resources (DNR) policy and manuals, DNR Standards for Fire Operations, Chugachmiut Fire Crew Operations Guide, and the contract agreement.