COEUR D’ALENE, ID – The Idaho Department of Lands is hiring seasonal workers due to the increased need for wildland firefighting equipment and supplies. The agency is hiring at least 10 seasonal team members for IDL’s Coeur d’Alene Interagency Fire Cache which stocks, maintains, and distributes the vital resources to fire crews battling wildfires across the western United States.
“Lives, property and valuable timber resources depend on our ability to supply firefighting equipment when it is needed, where it is needed,” IDL Director Dustin Miller says.
“Many items used on the fireline like fire hoses, chainsaws and water pumps come back to the Fire Cache and can be used on future fires after they are refurbished,” Miller says. “Returning and refurbishing equipment reduces fire expenses and saves taxpayers money.”
During the height of the fire season, refurbishing equipment requires many helping hands.
“With equipment returning from the field, and the likelihood of more wildfires [on] the horizon, each season we bring in help to maintain short turn-around times,” Miller adds. “The seasonal employees we hire do essential work.”
That work includes washing fire hoses, boxing up supplies, loading and offloading trucks, pressure-testing water handling equipment, making deliveries to fires, and much more.
Driving positions are also available for those with valid driver’s licenses and experience driving forklifts or box trucks. You must be at least 18 years old to apply.
The jobs pay $17.92 per hour and team members work from 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., six days a week. These positions are eligible for overtime pay.
Apply today by emailing your resume to careers@idl.idaho.gov, or by visiting www.idl.idaho.gov/jobs.
