National Fire Equipment System (NFES) Program Specialist

National Fire Equipment System (NFES) Program Specialist

Department: Department of Agriculture

Location(s): Boise, Idaho, Missoula, Montana, Salt Lake City, Utah

Salary Range: $74678 - $116362 Per Year

Job Summary: This position is within the Washington Office Fire and Aviation Management (WO-FAM) AD Operations unit. The position has responsibility for a number of equipment program segments within the Aviation and Operations organization that require considerable planning and coordination. For more information about this position, please contact Nate Hesse at Robert.Hesse@usda.gov

Major Duties:

• Responsibilities listed below are at the full performance level of GS-12.
• Serves as the fire equipment program specialist for the national fire equipment program, providing leadership to Forest Service fire caches by providing administrative and management oversight, coordination, and support of the program.
• Provides leadership to and coordination with other government agencies, programs, and projects concerning fire equipment issues affecting the Forest Service.
• Performs analysis to provide recommendations for workforce organization and utilization.
• Coordinates primary federal sources of supply such as the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and the General Services Administration (GSA) to establish annual inventory requirements and assure availability of critical equipment and supplies.
• Participates in interagency meetings and committees of national scope and significance. Collaborates and build consensus with interagency partners.
• Serves as program contact for fire equipment or supply chain-related Cooperative Agreements, Interagency Agreements, Memoranda of Understanding and Memoranda of Agreement.
• Serves as Contracting Officers Representative on contracts as needed.
• Organizes, coordinates and leads program reviews of Forest Service caches, evaluating compliance with agency policy, cache operating procedures, administrative processes, record keeping inventory processes, and fiscal accountability.

Qualifications: 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. Specialized Experience Requirement: GS-11: Applicants must have one year equivalent to GS-09. Specialized experience is defined as three or more of the following: Assisted with identifying issues and developing recommendations for the fire equipment program; and/or With guidance, advised the supervisory chain on administrative, technical, and budget issues pertaining to or impacting the fire equipment program; and/or Provided input on new equipment development based on subject matter expertise; and/or Collaborated and build consensus with interagency partners. -OR- Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.M., -OR- An appropriate combination of specialized experience and graduate level education (beyond what is required for a master's degree, i.e., more than 36 semester hours leading to a Ph.D. GS-12: Applicants must have one year equivalent to GS-11. Specialized experience is defined as three or more of the following: Identified issues and developed recommendations for the fire equipment program; and/or Advise the supervisory chain on administrative, technical, and budget issues pertaining to or impacting the fire equipment program; and/or Reviewed, provided, and recommended input on new equipment development based on subject matter expertise; and/or Collaborated and build relationships and consensus with interagency partners. 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. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

How to Apply: Please view Tips for Applicants - a guide to the Forest Service application process. Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this application process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing date of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (normally 8:00a.m. - 4:00p.m., Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing date for an alternate method. All hardship application packages must be complete and submitted no later than noon ET on the closing date of the announcement to be entered into the system prior to its closing. Resumes must not exceed two pages. This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact the Agency Contact to request this. To begin, click "Apply" and follow the instructions to complete the Assessment Questionnaire and attach your resume and all required documents. Please verify that documents you are uploading from USAJOBs transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limitation to the number of documents that can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document formats: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of consideration. Please ensure your resume does not exceed two pages. Applicants who submit a resume that exceeds two pages will be removed from consideration. Our office cannot be responsible for incompatible software, your system failure, etc.

Application Deadline: 2026-04-01