Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

Mediators should be capable of:

• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

• Relaying messages about emergencies, accidents, locations of crew and personnel, and fire hazard conditions.
• Directing crews working on firelines during forest fires.
• Estimating sizes and characteristics of fires, and reporting findings to base camps by radio or telephone.
• Administering regulations regarding sanitation, fire prevention, violation corrections, and related forest regulations.
• Extinguishing smaller fires with portable extinguishers, shovels, and axes.
• Locating forest fires on area maps, using azimuth sighters and known landmarks.
• Maintaining records and logbooks.
• Examining and inventory firefighting equipment, such as axes, fire hoses, shovels, pumps, buckets, and fire extinguishers, for determining amounts and conditions.
• Directing maintenance and repairing of firefighting equipment, or requisitioning new equipment.
• Restricting public access and recreational using of forest lands during critical fire seasons.
• Patrolling assigned areas, looking for forest fires, hazardous conditions, and weather phenomena.