Wildland Fire Crew Leader
1 month ago
Job Summary:
The Wildland Fire Crew Leader is responsible for overseeing and guiding a crew of firefighters while fighting a wildfire. The Crew Leader ensures that their crew is working safely and effectively through the duration of the contract, maintains appropriate communications with all supervisory personnel, and ensures that fires are effectively contained and/or extinguished.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for a 5-person fire crew, including ensuring crew safety, guiding new crew members, and ensuring appropriate PPE and equipment is available.
- Extinguish residual fire, including breaking apart smoldering debris, extinguishing embers, and moving burned debris.
- Operate trucks and ATVs.
- Support and act in accordance with Wright Canada Holdings culture of safety and employee ownership.
- Comply with applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations.
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance at work and meetings.
Requirements:
- S100 Basic Fire Suppression and Safety (or equivalent).
- S185 Fire Entrapment Avoidance.
- S212 Fire Line Communications.
- S230 Introduction to Supervision (Crew boss).
- S235 Burnoff and Backfiring.
- ICS 100 (Incident Command System).
- Transportation of Dangerous Goods.
- Acted as a Crew Leader on three (3) fires OR twenty (20) days as a firefighter (minimum 240 hours required).
- Annual Physical Fitness Test—Moderate Standard.
Preferred Certifications:
- OFA Level 1 with Transportation Endorsement.
- Chainsaw or Power Saw operator.
- Wildland Fire Safety Danger Tree Assessor.
Working Conditions:
Employees will be exposed to the elements and will be working in various weather conditions. Temperatures can range from extreme heat to cool and rainy conditions, air quality can be greatly affected by wildfires (smoke, ash, dust etc.). Employees can be exposed to a wide variety of shift types; from 10 day long shifts on with 4 days off; 14-day long shifts; or even on an as-needed, on-call basis. The terrain can be quite challenging at times as well as very remote, and air quality surrounding wildfires is often very poor.
Living Conditions:
Work time will be spent at the location of a wildfire, which will result in employees travelling to different areas in B.C and Alberta. Accommodations can consist of hotels & motels, campsites, trailers, or logging camps. Because this is a field position, you will be spending most of your time in the field and often, away from home. Office time will be minimal. When staying in a remote camp, everybody is expected to pitch in and make camp life better for the whole crew.
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