Forestry Technician (Lookout)

United-States-Forest-Service; Alpine (AZ); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Forest Service seeks a GS-04 Forest Fire Lookout position located at a National Forest. The role involves detection and reporting of fires from a lookout station. Eligibility requires meeting the General Schedule standards, with education or experience as described, by the closing date of the announcement.

Transcripts may be required for education-based qualifications. The candidate must clearly demonstrate experience and education that align with the occupation, including any

Qualifications

• General experience: six months of general experience demonstrating ability to perform the work
• Specialized experience: six months directly related to the work; or 2 years of study incl. forestry/related courses
• Education must include courses related to the occupation and be from an accredited school

Education

Two years of study in forestry or related fields

Job description

Job Corps graduates are encouraged to apply.

This position is located within a National Forest. This position is established on a Forest Service unit to provide for the detection and reporting of fires from a lookout station. In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards.

Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary.

GS-04:

Applicants must have six months of general experience (any type of work that demonstrated the ability to perform the work of the position, or experience that provided a familiarity with the subject matter or processes of the broad subject area of the occupation) AND six months of specialized experience that is directly related to the work of the position; OR successful completion of 2 years of study that included at least 12 semester hours in any combination of courses such as forestry, agriculture, crop or plant science, range management or conservation, wildlife management, watershed management, soil science, natural resources (except marine fisheries and oceanography), outdoor recreation management, civil or forest engineering, or wildland fire science (no more than 3 semester hours in mathematics is creditable); OR an appropriate combination of experience and education above high school as described above. The education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university and include courses that are related to the occupation of the position.

Examples of General Experience includes:

• Performed farm/ranch labor, such as feeding and tending livestock or general maintenance of farm/ranch facilities
• Cleaned tools and equipment
• Worked in a greenhouse or nursery moving, watering, and tending plants and performing other general labor
• Worked on a landscape or construction crew
• Other work experience, paid or unpaid, that demonstrates an ability to learn and perform the work of this position.

Examples of specialized experience include:

• Forestry aid or technician work.
• forest or range fire lookout, dispatch, prevention or suppression work.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

To receive consideration for this position, you must provide updated required documents and meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.