Forest Fire Fighting & Prevention Supervisors
Supervise fire fighters who control and suppress fires in forests or vacant public land.
Also called: Engine Boss, Fire Captain, Fire Management Officer, Squad Boss
Knowledge:
- public safety and security
- law and government
- human resources (HR)
- customer service
- teaching and course design
Skills:
- keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
- talking to others
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- pay attention to something without being distracted
- do two or more things at the same time
- quickly know what you are looking at
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Leadership
- Cooperation
- Integrity
- Stress Tolerance
- Concern for Others
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
Data base user interface and query software
- Fire incident reporting systems
- Microsoft Access
- Corel WordPerfect Office Suite
- Microsoft Office
