Job Description

The Firefighter Type 2 (FFT2) serves on a hand crew, engine crew, or helitack crew, performing fire suppression and fuels management duties in adverse climate, fuel, and terrain conditions. Supervised by the Firefighter Type 1, the Firefighter Type 2 will work in the Operations functional area.

This position will be in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Essential Functions:

• Ensure individual readiness.
• Obtain briefing from supervisor.
• Acquire, analyze, and use relevant situational information to make more informed decisions and take appropriate actions.
• Adjust actions based on changing information and evolving situation awareness. Communicate changing conditions to supervisor.
• Establish and maintain the physical fitness level necessary to effectively perform hard physical labor for extended periods under adverse climate, fuel, and terrain conditions.
• Perform wildland fire and prescribed fire duties including suppression, preparation, ignition, monitoring, holding, and mop-up. Use standard firefighting tools such as pulaskis, shovels, McLeods, chainsaws, drip torches, and fusees to do this work.
• Perform hand crew duties including packing heavy loads of fuel, food, water, and tools for miles over rough terrain in hot and smoky conditions to get to the work site.
• Perform engine operations duties including running the pump, deploying hoselays, completing preventative engine maintenance checks, and effectively using water and additives.
• Perform portable pump operator duties such as pump site selection, set up, and operation.
• Support chainsaw operations.
• Apply knowledge of fuels, terrain, weather, and fire behavior to decisions and actions.
• Use Incident Command System (ICS) terminology, organization, and command structure.
• Use and maintain personal protection equipment (PPE).
• Report all accidents or injuries to supervisor.
• Follow crew standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Ensure proper refurbishing and resupply of tools, vehicles, food, water and supplies.

Qualifications:

• ICS - 100, Introduction to ICS
• IS - 700, NIMS: An Introduction
• L-180, Human Factors in the Wildland Fire Services
• RT - 130 , Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher
• S - 130, Firefighting Training
• S - 190, Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior