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Strike Team Leader Heavy Equipment

National Wildfire Coordinating Group

National Wildfire Coordinating Group

Posted on Aug 27, 2025

Strike Team Leader Heavy Equipment

The Strike Team Leader Heavy Equipment performs tactical missions on a division or segment of a division and is responsible for the safety of equipment, operators, and transports used to suppress, repair and rehabilitate wildland fires. The STEQ supervises two like pieces of heavy equipment and operators and reports to a Division/Group Supervisor (DIVS). The STEQ works in the Operations functional area.

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The Forest Service and Department of Interior are enabled by Administratively Determined Pay Plans (AD Pay Plans) to hire persons for temporary duration for the following reasons:

  1. To cope with a sudden and unexpected emergency caused by a fire, or extreme fire potential, flood, storm, or any other all-hazard emergency that threatens damage to federally protected property, has the potential to cause loss of life, serious injury, public health risk, or damage to natural or cultural resources unless brought under immediate control.
  2. To provide emergency assistance to States under formalized agreements.
  3. To meet mission assignments issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Incident Business Committee (IBC) reviews positions annually and establishes pay rate classifications for each position.

For more information on the AD Pay Plans, visit Incident Business Committee.

Date: Dec 2025

Removed: from "These Positions Maintain Currency For STEQ":

  • Safety Officer, Line (SOFR)

Removed: from "STEQ Maintain Currency For These Positions "":

  • Safety Officer, Line (SOFR)

Added: to "These Positions Maintain Currency For STEQ":

  • Safety Officer Type 3 (SOF3)

Added: to "STEQ Maintain Currency For These Positions ":

  • Safety Officer Type 3 (SOF3)
Date: Jan 2024

Updated Positions Qualification Requirements as follows:

Added to "STEQ Maintains Currency For These Positions":

  • Safety Officer Field (SOFF)
Date: Jan 2023

Added: Operation Section Chief Complex (OSCC) to "These Positions Maintain Currency For STEQ."

Date: May 2019

Added: Incident Position Description (IPD) approved.

Date: Oct 2017

Removed: Tactical Decision Making in the Wildland Fire (S-336) from "Other Training Which Supports Development of Knowledge and Skills."

Date: Jun 2011

Position created.

Combined STDZ and STPL positions into a Strike Team Heavy Equipment (STEQ) position.

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