Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist Family
Career series with 2 positions across 2 levels
Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist groups 2 related titles into a 2-level career ladder.
Entry is typically through Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 2, advancing through the ladder toward Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 1. Pay across the family spans $50,059 to $79,523, around the 16th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 10 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Environmental Protection.
Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist commonly advances into Program Specialist and Health Systems Specialist.
Positions in This Family
- FOREST FIRE EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST 2 (02646) $50,059 - $72,550/year
- FOREST FIRE EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST 1 (02647) $54,673 - $79,523/year
What the Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist family covers
Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 2 title codes across 2 levels. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Trades and maintenance titles are the most heavily local group in the whole classification plan. Public works yards, water and sewer utilities, parks departments and school district plants hire them, so the family often exists only with local codes and never appears on state payroll at all. Qualification usually rests on demonstrated skill and a driving credential rather than a degree, and several of these series are the ones New Jersey opens to applicants without any formal education requirement. At the state level the equivalent posts are represented by IFPTE rather than CWA.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist rungs look like this. Note that the numbers in these titles do not run in pay order. In this family a lower number sits higher on the ladder, which is a New Jersey convention that catches people out when they read a title list top to bottom.
- Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 1 — $54,673 to $79,523 (1 year of experience)
- Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 2 — $50,059 to $72,550
The distance from the bottom of Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 2 to the top of Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 1 is $29,464, an increase of about 59% over the entry minimum.
What each title does
Each title in the family carries its own published definition. These are the opening lines of each one, which is usually where the difference between two neighboring rungs is actually stated.
- Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 2: Under the direction of a Supervisor, Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance, or other supervisory official in the Bureau of Forest Fire…
- Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 1: Under the direction of a Supervisor, Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance, or other supervisory official in the Bureau of Forest Fire…
What it takes to qualify
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 2 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 10 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Environmental Protection alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Environmental Protection — 10 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $53,799 for Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 2 up to $72,032 for Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 1. Those are medians of what people are really paid, not schedule minimums and maximums.
State payroll only, deduplicated by payroll title; local employers file separately, so a family with local codes looks smaller here than it is. How this is counted.
How the pay is set
Titles in this family are paid on the C-I-O salary schedule. See every step in that schedule. Bargaining is handled by IFPTE. Union contracts and rights are collected here.
Where these jobs exist
These are state titles, hired by New Jersey departments, commissions and boards through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process rather than by an ordinary job posting. How state hiring works, and which agencies employ what.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Supervisor Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance ($69,668 to $101,951, state jurisdiction) — in the Supervisor family
- Assistant Supervisor, Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance ($63,663 to $92,953, state jurisdiction)
- Senior Maintenance Repairer Fire Equipment (local jurisdiction)
- Forest Fire Pilot ($66,592 to $97,354, state jurisdiction)
- Forest Fire Observer ($45,874 to $66,294, state jurisdiction)
- Forest Fire Control Technician ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist jobs
How many Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist family holds 2 title codes arranged across 2 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $50,059 at the bottom of Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 2 to $79,523 at the top of Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 1. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.
Do you need to take an exam to become a Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist?
Yes for most of the family. 2 of the 2 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.
What qualifications does a Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist need?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education. Experience of 1 year is named where a requirement is stated.
Which agencies employ Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist staff?
State payroll records show 10 people in this family across 1 agency, with Environmental Protection the largest at 10. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 1 higher or lower than Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist 3?
In this family the lower number is the more senior title. New Jersey's level numbering does not run in pay order, and reading the titles by number alone will give you the ladder upside down. The list above is sorted by what each title actually pays.