Fire and Emergency Services Specialist

Fire and Emergency Services Specialist

The Opportunity:  

Our federal client is planning and executing actions to cease using aqueous film forming foam (AFFF). This position will provide policy and program oversight support for the federal client’s efforts to procure and transition to the new fluorine-free firefighting (F3) products, including ensuring that the removal of AFFF and the implementation of the new F3 products has minimal impact to mission operations, and the Department can ensure continued protectiveness of life and property during the transition. To ensure a successful transition, this position would support updating and communicating about the client’s comprehensive AFFF replacement plans, researching and monitoring F3-related research, demonstration, and validation projects, coordinating the appropriate and timely disposal of AFFF, and implementing policy that guides the training requirements for the new F3 products.

As the AFFF Fire and Emergency Services (FES) Specialist on our team, you will be responsible for assisting the Federal client with implementing and overseeing its transition from AFFF to the new F3 products. This position requires using your professional knowledge and expertise about a wide variety of fire and emergency response related regulations, such as National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) codes and standards, policies, procedures, and technologies affecting Federal agency activities and operations to support the development and implementation of AFFF transition policies and guidance, and helping the client make informed decisions. You'll research issues related to FES program activities, F3 formulations, PFAS extraction and destruction techniques, and alternatives for assets and equipment, and communicate about those issues professionally and effectively both orally and in writing. You'll prepare briefings, presentations, and decision memoranda in support of senior management decisions. You'll track, monitor, and collect data about the progress of multiple, complex, ongoing projects related to F3 resources and AFFF transition, prepare analyses, and present findings orally and in writing to the internal team, client, Congress, and the public. You'll manage logistics related to meetings, technical exchanges, working groups, and webinars. Additionally, you will help with a wide variety of communications and outreach tasks associated with executing the Federal client’s transition from AFFF to F3 products, including facilitating communications among a varied set of internal and external stakeholders, drafting outreach and communication documents, and managing outreach efforts on behalf of clients’ AFFF transition program. You'll work independently and as part of a team, manage high-priority and quick-turn assignments, and adapt to new and changing client priorities.

This is your chance to gain experience in defense while learning new skills.  

Work with us as we help our client's mission evolve.  

Join us. The world can’t wait. 

You Have: 

• Experience collecting, compiling, analyzing, and managing large, quantitative and qualitative data sets

• Experience with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint

• Knowledge of fire protection and FES, including policies, guidance, and regulations, such as NFPA Codes and Standards, FES operation and incident response, and Interagency fire and emergency response operations

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team on multiple priority projects, manage time effectively, and demonstrate adaptability in responding to multiple priorities and conflicting deadlines

• Ability to lead and facilitate meetings, brief senior leadership, and tailor oral and written communications to effectively meet desired objectives based on the audience

• Ability to pay attention to detail to efficiently achieve thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing tasks

• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance

• Bachelor's degree in Fire Services Administration, Fire Services Management, Emergency Services, Emergency Management, or Fire Science and 7+ years of experience with fire and emergency response, or Master's degree in Fire Services Administration, Fire Services Management, Emergency Services, Emergency Management, or Fire Science and 5+ years of experience with fire and emergency response

Nice If You Have: 

• Experience with the application of firefighting foams in real-world emergency response, conducting training events with firefighting foams, working in or supporting the Department of Defense, Incident Command System, and all hazards incident response

• Experience with FES Administration, studies, and analyses of new and emerging emergency response issu