Alberta Wildfire Coordination Centre

2 weeks ago

Edmonton, Canada Government of Alberta Full time

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 65240
Ministry: Forestry and Parks
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Wage
Hours of Work: Up to 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Temporary Wage
Scope: Open Competition
Classification: Administrative Support 4

**Salary**: $24.22 to $29.59 per hour

**About Us**

The Wildfire Management Branch inspires public confidence in wildfire and forest management, sustaining operations and preventative practices, and leading collaboration that enables safe and resilient communities. For more information about the Wildfire Management Branch:
**Role Responsibilities**:
The Alberta Wildfire Coordination Centre (AWCC), located in Edmonton, works with the 10 Forest Areas in the Province to coordinate suppression and pre-suppression efforts. The AWCC is open 7 days a week during the peak fire season to assist the forest areas and has a team of seasonal and full-time staff that facilitate wildfire operations across the province.

Do you want to be a key part in the AWCC and have what it takes to perform the following tasks?
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment with consistently changing priorities and high level of multi-tasking.
- Communicate accurately and efficiently within a team environment.
- Available to work through evenings, weekends, and possible overnight shifts.

Do you thrive in fast-paced environments with diverse priorities and high levels of multi-tasking? Are you passionate about effective and accurate coordination? If this resonates, this may be the position for you

Operating out of the Alberta Wildfire Coordination Centre (AWCC), the AWCC Aircraft Logistics works closely with the Provincial Aircraft Coordinator to process provincial, national, and international requests for helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. In addition, they work with the 10 Forest Areas to acknowledge Airtanker requests, hire and release aircraft, complete data entry accurately, and gather information for statistical purposes.

AWCC Aircraft Logistics fill a vital, technical role that involves:

- Coordinating the provincial, national, and international dispatch of aircraft resources.
- Working with the Provincial Aircraft Coordinator and Forest Areas to ensure communication is distributed and received in a timely manner applicable to the dispatch of resources.
- Working with the Provincial Aircraft Coordinator and Forest Areas to ensure Airtanker requests are actioned in an efficient manner.
- Maintaining and updating data entry for managing aircraft contracts.
- Dispatch aviation fuel, refueling containers and retardant as required.
- Maintain regular communication with aircraft companies to hire and release aircraft.
- General reporting and gathering of statistical aircraft and equipment information.
- Answer incoming phone calls on the AWCC and 310-FIRE phone lines. Direct calls to the appropriate person or forest area and/or provide appropriate information to the caller.
- Monitoring all aircraft and fire activities to ensure related regulations, policy and procedural guidelines are followed, maintain an aircraft position log, manifests, daily flight log and daily flight reports.
- Initiating emergency response procedures for overdue or missing aircraft, overdue staff or other emergency situations as required.
- Maintaining radio check-ins with night vision (NVIS) crew in accordance with safety protocols, immediately reporting any irregularities as they occur.
- Be available for export to other Forest Areas and/or out of province and assisting in completing the duties as outlined in AWCC Support and AWCC Logistics when those staff are not available.

Successful applicants will receive training in the Alberta Wildfire Dispatcher Orientation Course, training in recording and conveying radio transmissions to and from aircraft, and crews, in the field or on wildfires, and training in wildfire-specific computer programs utilized in the day-today work.

**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:

- Agility - Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, maintain resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment.
- Creative Problem Solving - Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.
- Develop Self and Others - A commitment to lifelong learning and the desire to invest in the development of the long-term capability of yourself and others.
- Build Collaborative Environments - Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.
- Develop Networks - Proactively building networks, connecting, and bu

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