FIRE CHIEF

You will serve as a FIRE CHIEF in the FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES PROGRAM MANAGER DIVISION of NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY PORTSMOUTH NSY.

GS-13: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Responding to emergency incidents and directing fire suppression, rescue operations, and emergency medical resources (EMS) in immediate mitigation actions; 2) Leading/managing personnel in the delivery of basic life support and/or advanced life support including supervision of ground ambulance transportation service; 3) Leading and working as member of a team to accomplish mission objectives; 4) Providing sound tactical decision-making and good judgment to provide effective, professional, and outgoing customer service and interaction with the command, the general public and stakeholders; 5) Delivering accurate, effective, and professional oral and written communications, particularly documentation of employee appraisals, internal written communications, briefs, procedures, explanatory papers, correspondence, and investigative/fire/EMS reports; 6) Managing personnel and projects in multiple specialties and special function/duty areas to include a proven track record of effectively performing and managing fire department collateral duties. (NOTE: Your answer must be supported by information in your resume.) GS-12: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Managing and directing fire department operations involving structural, shipboard, crash/rescue, wildland, as well as operations involving toxic materials, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), nuclear, and conventional ordnance; 2) Utilizing the latest technical developments in fire prevention and protection to achieve and maintain operational readiness with minimal manpower to accomplish the overall fire protection mission; 3) Evaluating the technical adequacy of all fire protection and life safety features; and 4) Conducting investigations of fires to determine cause. (NOTE: Your answer must be supported by information in your resume.) Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0000/fire-protection-and-prevention-series-0081/ This position requires the incumbent to possess the following certifications: Fire Officer III, Fire Inspector II, Fire Instructor II, Driver Operator Pumper, HAZMAT Incident Commander and National Registry Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT). These certifications must have been awarded by DoD, IFSAC or ProBoard to meet the requirement. If you do not possess all of the above certifications and you have not attached copies of your certifications, you will be rated ineligible. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Duties are primarily managerial, administrative and supervisory in nature; however, a portion of the duties will be performed under stress or extremes of smoke, heat, fire, and exposure to hazardous and toxic materials. When inspecting office buildings or shops, work requires regular and recurring physical exertion, such as, long periods of standing, walking, ending, stooping, reaching, crawling and similar activities. Performance of work may take place in attics, crawl spaces, walls, ceilings, and other limited access spaces; in rough terrain or in construction sites when planning and monitoring the installation of fire and emergency services systems as part of original construction. The work may regularly involve lifting and carrying moderately heavy objects of forty (40) pounds of less. The work may require some common characteristics and abilities of physical agility and dexterity to work in confined spaces and move or lift moderately heavy objects. WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work is primarily performed in an office like setting involving everyday risks or discomforts which require normal safety precautions typical of such places; meeting or training rooms; private or commercial vehicles; using safe work practices with office equipment; avoiding trips or falls; observing fire regulations and traffic signals, etc. The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated. There may be some instances when the incumbent will work in areas where there is exposure to moderate discomforts and unpleasantness, such as high levels of noise, adverse weather conditions or confined spaces. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.