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Ranger applications are only accepted when there is an advertised job vacancy posting.

Examples of duties:

• Operate two to five ton trucks and medium to heavy crawler tractors in the suppression of wildfires
• Prepare reports, including measuring and computing acreage
• Assist landowners in control burns and plow pre-suppression breaks
• Use appropriate equipment including hand tools and bull dozers to suppress wildfires
• Perform preventative maintenance and small repairs to fire suppression equipment
• Respond to fire calls and other requests for assistance, such as accidents and other emergencies
• Participate in rotating ‘on call’ schedule to respond after hours and on weekends

Forester applications are only accepted when there is an advertised job vacancy posting. A prerequisite is a 4-year Forestry degree from a Society of American Foresters (SAF) accredited school.
Examples of duties:

• Provide technical assistance to landowners in all areas of forest management
• Write multiple resource-based forest management plans for landowners
• Assist with timber sales on state lands
• Provide technical assistance to landowners in afforestation and reforestation
• Diagnose insect and disease infestations and make recommendations for control
• Assess storm damage to forest lands
• Develop prescribed burning plans and assist with implementation
• Provide assistance with establishing Streamside Management Zones
• Present forestry programs to school groups and local government bodies
• Assist landowners with cost share programs

GFC employs part time and full time dispatchers. Part time dispatcher applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Examples of duties:

• Support of fire control activities under limited supervision
• Operate and monitor a voice and data communications system consisting of: two-way radio, telephone and computer data communications network
• Assist in location, dispatching of equipment and maintaining radio contact with personnel
• Stay abreast of current fire information and issue weather updates
• Receive and process burn permits
• Perform related clerical work including completion of reports and answering/forwarding incoming telephone calls
• Perform minor janitorial duties within the dispatch work area

We are always accepting applications! Click here the State of Georgia Application.

Please send a completed application to one of the following contacts:

Occasionally, we have other positions which come open, such as administrative assistant, accountant, forest inventory analysis forester or welder. When we do, the vacancy will be posted below.