State Aviation Manager

Duties

Responsible for all phases of the statewide aviation program including operations, management, administration, safety, training and program evaluation for the District Offices and Areas within the state of Nevada. The aviation program is complex due to the significantly large acreage, risk potential, and staffing needs of the units served. The incumbent is responsible for all phases of the statewide aviation program including operations, management, administration, safety, training and program evaluation. The incumbent provides advice and guidance to managers, supervisors, projects leaders and their staffs to ensure aviation safety and cost effectiveness in meeting a variety of Bureau missions and objectives.

Qualifications

In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - please be sure to include this information in your resume. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade of the position to be filled.

For the GS-11: One (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-9 in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience may include: experience in managing aerial fire suppression and resource aviation activities; assisting in managing a wildland fire program; assisting in the development of fire management plans and/or assisting in the coordination of fire responses. This knowledge and skill can be demonstrated by holding positions such as Fire Management Officer, or Assistant Fire Management Officer, or Assistant Dispatch Center Manager/Coordinator, or Unit Aviation Manager, or Helicopter/Helitack Manager, or Air Attack Supervisor, or Air Tanker Base Manager; OR completed three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in a directly related field such as transportation or aviation management; OR an equivalent combination of experience and education as described above.

For the GS-12: One (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-11 in the Federal Service. At this level, work of marked difficulty and responsibility is performed under general administrative supervision with wide latitude for the exercise of independent judgment. Specialized experience is defined as experience in managing aerial fire suppression and resource aviation activities; managing a wildland fire program, and/or planning and coordination of fire programs and fire responses with other federal agencies, state and local agencies. This knowledge and skill can be demonstrated by holding positions such as Fire Management Officer, or Assistant Fire Management Officer, or Dispatch Center Manager/Coordinator, or Unit Aviation Manager, or other wildland fire program manager.

There is no substitution of education for experience at the GS-12 grade level.

Selective Placement Factors: This position requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. Those who do not provide evidence they possess the following selective factor(s) will be rated not qualified.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING IN WILDLAND FIREFIGHTING AND THE USE OF AIRCRAFT IN FIRE SUPRESSION.

Applicants must 90-days of prior wildland firefighting experience. This must be evidenced in your application. The Department of the Interior defines wildland firefighting experience as: any non-structure fire that occurs in the wildland. Wildland firefighting experience is gained through work on the fire line in containment, control, suppression or use of wildland fire. This experience can be met by serving in a temporary, seasonal, or equivalent private sector fire position for no less than 90 days. Periods of wildland firefighting experience gained through militia and rural fire departments can also be credited as long as the total amount of this experience equates to at least 90-days. Wildland fires are categorized into two distinct types:

1. Wildfires - Unplanned ignitions or prescribed fires that are declared wildfires, and 2) Prescribed Fires/Planned ignitions. This description includes only fireline experience on a Prescribed Fire; it does not include experience in the planning stages. Prescribed fire experience must be supplemented by fire suppression experience in order to be creditable as previous wildland firefighting experience.

You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement. Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade requirement in accordance with 5 CFR 300.604. If you are a current Federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled.

If you are a current career seasonal employee, your time spent in non-pay status is not creditable towards meeting the specialized experience requirement of 52 weeks or 1 year (whichever is first). Please include in your resume (on the first line of each job experience section), the dates you were placed in and out of pay status.