Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Jensen Hughes is a fire protection engineering, fire science, and risk management company focused on making the world safe, secure, and resilient. The Senior Wildfire Risk Mitigation Consultant will lead complex wildfire preparedness, planning, modeling, risk assessment, and mitigation projects, while providing technical leadership, mentoring, project management, and service-line development.
Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee complex wildfire risk mitigation projects, ensuring timely execution and alignment with stakeholders. This includes managing project timelines, budgets, and deliverables to meet client expectations. Provide hands-on technical direction and quality oversight from planning through delivery
- Support the growth and development of our wildfire risk mitigation service line, identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement in our offerings. Provide technical expertise to proposals, pursuits, and client relationships
- Provide mentorship and senior leadership to junior staff members, fostering their professional growth and development within the team.Provide coaching, technical direction, and accountability while promoting high-quality delivery and collaboration
- Conduct comprehensive, technical reviews and detailed analyses related to building codes, fire/wildfire codes, and planning to ensure compliance and best practices are followed
- Conduct or provide technical oversight of fire/wildfire behavior modeling, smoke modelling | dispersion, land resource management, fire safety engineering analyses at parcel and neighborhood-scales, post-fire hazard analyses, landscape-scale fuel treatment opportunities and prioritizations, utilizing advanced tools and methodologies to assess risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Evaluate a broad set of wildfire hazard, risk and vulnerability analytics to develop a comprehensive, effective and sustainable action plan and/or mitigation strategies to reduce wildfire risk. This may include understanding wildfire/fire regulations, codes & standards, environmental review, healthy forest management practices, ignition sources and probabilities, utility wildfire mitigation plans , social vulnerabilities and human behavior, evacuation planning, critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, operations and maintenance constraints, building construction practices and urban planning concepts, latest research in wildfire risk mitigation and planning. This systems approach to understanding wildfire hazards, risks and developing associated mitigation activities may be applied across the entire disaster cycle and for a variety of sectors and Client types
- Manage or prepare GIS mapping, geospatial analysis, and visualization products using ArcGIS/QGIS or comparable tools to support wildfire planning, hazard analysis, risk and vulnerability assessments, and mitigation strategies
- Support post-fire studies, detailed multi-scalar fire and smoke modelling | reconstruction, in-field data collection and assessment, and other relevant technical and legal support on wildfire forensic investigations
- Undertake or manage wildfire environmental assessments and environmental reviews, including healthy forest, land resource management, and post-fire recovery considerations
- Prepare and present technical reports and community outreach programs, effectively communicating findings and recommendations to diverse audiences.Prepare wildfire fire protection plans, risk mitigation strategies, environmental assessments, GIS/geospatial visualization products, and technical presentations
Skills
- The ideal candidate will have a minimum of ten (10) years leading and managing wildfire preparedness, planning and risk mitigation projects for commercial/residential property owners, energy and utility clients and government agencies
- The candidate will be a subject matter expert and demonstrate high technical capabilities across wildfire/fire behavior modeling, geospatial analysis, fire ecology and/or related environmental sciences, quantitative wildfire risk and vulnerability assessments, emergency evacuation modelling, public communication planning, and related wildfire engineering and planning disciplines
- This position requires leadership experience and a deep technical expertise, project management skills, and the ability to mentor junior staff while fostering a collaborative environment
- Bachelor's degree in Disaster Risk Management, Fire Engineering | Fire Science, Electrical Engineering | Electrical Utilities, Environmental Sciences | Engineering, Forestry, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in a combination of the following: wildfire preparedness and planning, wildfire/fire behavior modeling, wildfire/fire safety strategy and/or risk mitigation strategy development, electrical utility wildfire risk management, environmental reviews, urban planning, healthy forest management, land resource management, post-fire recovery, fire/wildfire investigations, and code consulting and performance-based designs
- Demonstrated experience in people leadership at a managerial level, with the ability to inspire and guide cross-functional teams
- Deep technical knowledge in wildfire fire risk management, wildfire fire behavior modelling including wildfire behavior modeling skills (FLAMMAP, FARSITE) and GIS experience (ArcGIS/QGIS) and demonstrated hands-on technical wildfire experience across multiple core disciplines
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining high standards of quality and efficiency
- While not solely responsible for sales, candidates should possess commercial acumen and the ability to identify and pursue business development opportunities
- Experience with proposals, pursuits, client relationships, and technical service-line growth
- Master's or Advanced degree
Benefits
- Retirement plan
- Healthcare coverage
- Flexible work options to support work-life balance
- Mentorship and career development opportunities
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