Personnelist: Classifier

POSITION DESCRIPTIONS RECOMMENDED FOR SECONDARY COVERAGE:

For Secondary positions, the "Knowledges" section of the position description must include the statement that experience in a rigorous law enforcement or firefighting position is a mandatory prerequisite, and how/why that experience is necessary for that position.

An organization chart and functional statement should establish that the position is:

  • clearly in the law enforcement or firefighting field; and
  • in an organization having a law enforcement or firefighting mission.

SECONDARY/ADMINISTRATIVE: in an executive, managerial, technical, semiprofessional or professional position in which experience in a rigorous law enforcement or firefighting position, or equivalent experience outside the Federal government, is a mandatory prerequisite.

  • This requirement for prior experience must be expressed in the "knowledges" of the position description; and must be substantiated by the duties of the position description.

SECONDARY/SUPERVISORY: the primary duties are as a first level supervisor of primary, or rigorous positions.

NOTE 1: A lead man, or foreman who has a limited degree of actual supervisory or management authority, is not a "true supervisor".

NOTE 2: Secondary/supervisory is interpreted to apply to those positions which have clearly moved away from direct fire involvement and into management. The senior person who is in charge at a fire scene (not in the camp, but on the fire) is certainly "directly connected" with fighting the fire and meets the definition for primary coverage as a firefighter. This concept also applies to law enforcement officer positions.

NOTE 3: Secondary/supervisory coverage stops if primary duties are no longer supervisory, and the position loses its special retirement coverage unless it is resubmitted for approval.

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