Field Quality & Production Coach

About BurnBot

BurnBot provides systematic fuels treatment services to prevent destructive wildfires. We're firefighters, scientists, engineers, prescribed fire practitioners, ecologists, and community members who are answering the call to scale fuel treatment capacity. Our modern fuel treatment system recognizes and supports conservation efforts with a clean, smoke-free process. We need technology to amplify our workforces with targeted use of synthetic fire to treat fuel loads 10x faster than previously possible.

The Role

The Field Quality & Production Coach is BurnBot's centralized standards-bearer for field execution. Reporting to the Director of Operations and serving as a peer to the Regional Directors, the Coach is deployed into projects and regions wherever quality and production expectations are at risk: to coach crews, identify problems early, and reinforce the standards that make BurnBot world-class on the ground.

This is a single, deeply experienced role across the org. The person in this seat is the go-to expert when something needs eyes, ears, and hands from BurnBot's operating doctrine. The Coach is not an inspector with a clipboard; the Coach is a peer who comes in, makes things better, and leaves crews stronger.

This role is exempt with a salary range of $100,000 to 130,000. However, we do consider many factors when creating job offers, including (but not limited to), the role, location, responsibilities, experience, training, education, and skillset.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Parachute into active projects across the Western US to assess quality and production performance against BurnBot's operating standards

• Coach crew leaders, foremen, and field crews on technique, sequencing, equipment use, and quality control

• Identify problems and areas of concern early — before they show up as customer-facing quality issues, rework, or safety events — and flag them to the Regional Director and Director of Operations with clear recommended actions

• Reinforce BurnBot's operating doctrine — mechanized crew models, prescription compliance, quality checks, production benchmarks

• Run targeted on-site training and skill-building when a crew or region needs to lift performance

• Conduct quality audits on representative projects across the regions, with structured findings and follow-up

• Partner with Regional Directors as a peer — not as an inspector — bringing field-level expertise to help them succeed

• Capture lessons learned and feed them back into doctrine, training materials, and the Director of Operations' priorities

• Partner with the Director of Intel Programs to ensure quality and production data flows into Ember and is interpreted correctly

• Represent BurnBot's quality standards to customers, agencies, and partners when on a jobsite

• Mentor emerging field leaders — identify high-potential crew leaders and help them grow into Regional Director-track roles

• Maintain and promote a safe, productive, and positive working environment

• Strong bias for action and the ability to execute assigned tasks with or without guidance

• Can adapt to a fast-changing environment and work priorities

• Willingness to learn, seek clarification, and embrace new responsibilities as required

• Work long and flexible hours as necessary to fulfill business needs, while providing support to employees and ensuring project success

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on field experience in forestry, fuels, fire, or comparable equipment-intensive operations, with a strong track record of personal field excellence

• Proven crew-leadership experience, ideally including foreman or superintendent-level roles

• Deep, demonstrable expertise in mechanized fuels and forestry operations (mastication, thinning, slash) and/or prescribed fire, including the ability to diagnose and fix quality and production problems in the field

• Strong safety record and instincts — able to spot risk early and address it without escalation when appropriate

• Excellent coaching and feedback skills — able to deliver direct, useful, respectful feedback to peers and senior crew leads

• Comfort working independently and traveling extensively across the Western US

• Travel up to 75% of the time to project sites

• Ability to communicate effectively

• Passion for BurnBot's mission

It would be cool if…

• NWCG qualifications and current Pack Test

• Experience as a Quality or Inspection lead in a comparable scale field operation

• Train-the-trainer experience or formal coaching certification

• Multi-region experience that gives you broad reference points for what good looks like

Still interested? Please apply by sending your resume to careers@burnbot.com or visiting our job postings on Indeed.

Burnbot is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including but not limited to, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with one or more disabilities, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at 415-795-9124 x 1010 or people@burnbot.com.