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Washington State Department of Natural Resources Forest Crew Supervisor, Correctional Facility in Airway Heights, Washington
Forest Crew Supervisor, Correctional Facility Recruitment #2024-4-5217 Full-time, Non-Permanent, Represented position Anticipated Non-Permanent employment is 6 months Location: Northeast Region - Airway Heights, WA *Salary: $3,974.00 - $5,341.00 Monthly * Review of applications is ongoing. We reserve the right to make a hiring decision or close this recruitment at any time after 4/23/24. It is in your best interest to submit materials as soon as possible.
Responsibilities: Leads, supervises, instructs, and evaluates incarcerated individuals on how to safely and effectively participate as a member of a "Hand Crew" to engage in Initial Attack and Mop-up operations to suppress wildland fires.
- Supervises and leads crew members in wildfire suppression ranging from the initial attack, fire line construction, mop-up, gridding, and repair.
- Communicates all directions and objectives to crew members that are given and ensures that they are met safely, efficiently, and on time.
- Ensures that all crew members are fire line qualified and maintains crew readiness for emergency incident response.
- Assess the crew's physical condition and correct any issues when they arise.
- Communicate and document any needs of crew members to the Camp Manager, DOC personnel, or the liaison if one is assigned to a project incident.
Provides essential supervisory and security functions while supervising incarcerated individuals' work crews.
- Takes custody of incarcerated individuals at check out from the institution.
- Monitors incarcerated individual's movements at close range or from a distance.
- Visually monitors all security areas including job sites, and works on emergency incidents.
- Enforces DNR/DOC rules and policies.
- Initiates corrective or disciplinary action as required.
- Adheres to established staff safety practices for themselves, the crew members, and the public.
- Attends annual DOC trainings and refreshers to include PREA, Escape Protocol, Key and Tool Control, and Manipulative Awareness.
- Uses de-escalation skills during stressful situations.
- Seize or direct seizure (by notifying DOC and Camp Manager) of dangerous items, evidence, contraband, and controlled or unauthorized substances and ensure proper evidence handling is maintained.
- Writes reports based on observations regarding occurrences that may require action by supervisor or DOC staff.
Trains, instructs, and supervises incarcerated individual work crews to safely, effectively, and efficiently conduct work on silviculture and forest health work projects.
- Supervises silviculture activities such as planting, pre-commercial thinning, vegetation management, riparian habitat enhancement, and stream restoration.
- Demonstrates and teaches safe use and maintenance of power equipment and hand tools such as chainsaws, wood chippers, wood splitters, and fire line tools.
- Teaches crew members plant and tree identification.
- Supervises and ensures that all prescriptions given by contractors are adhered to.
- Teaches proper timber felling techniques to crew members.
Complete necessary administrative and transportation-related tasks required for the position.
Maintains daily job card documentation that includes formal incarcerated individual counts per DNR/DOC inter-agency agreement, job information, and hours worked on the job that day.
Maintains crew member payroll and enters pay daily in the ITAR computer system.
Communicates with incarcerated individual's assigned counselor and conducts frequent evaluations for each individual assigned to their crew.
Maintains an open line of communication with the Camp Manager, DOC, and assigned counselors.