Regional Director

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

Regional Directors own the ground in their assigned US territory. The Regional Director is the senior field leader, accountable for production, quality, and safety on every BurnBot project in their region. They lead crews, manage local equipment and resources, build relationships with customers and partners on the jobsite, and represent BurnBot to local communities, agencies, and stakeholders.

The mandate is clear and focused: own the ground, own jobsite relationships, and expand BurnBot's footprint through quality, safety, and production excellence. Reporting structure: COO → Director of Operations → Regional Director → field crews and crew leaders.

This role is exempt with a salary range of $120,000 to $140,000. 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

• Own production, quality, and safety on every project in your region

• Lead and develop crew leaders, foremen, and field crews: hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and advancement

• Plan and execute regional capacity: crew loadings, equipment positioning, shared-resource brokering with peer Regional Directors and the Director of Operations

• Take handoffs from Program Managers and execute to scope; surface scope, schedule, or budget issues to the Director of Operations and the relevant Program Director

• Run the regional safety program: pre-job briefings, JSAs, incident reporting and investigation, lessons learned

• Own jobsite relationships: customer reps, agency representatives, CORs, neighbors, local cooperators

• Maintain quality oversight on the ground, work with the Field Quality & Production Coach when deployed; set local standards and inspections

• Manage regional budgets: labor productivity, equipment utilization, fuel and consumables

• Partner with Program Directors as the regional execution counterpart for Forestry, Fuels, Infrastructure, Fire, and Intel work in your region

• Partner with the Director of Intel Programs to ensure data flows reliably from your crews and projects (Ember adoption, field reporting discipline)

• Maintain equipment readiness, work with Fleet on PM cycles, repairs, and asset utilization

• Ensure regulatory compliance on the ground, environmental, safety (OSHA), motor carrier, agency-specific requirements

• Build the regional talent pipeline, relationships with schools, agencies, contractors, and the local fire and forestry workforce

• 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

• Bachelor's degree in Forestry, Natural Resources, Fire Science, Operations Management, or related field, or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of progressive field leadership experience in forestry, fuels, fire, or equipment-intensive field operations, including formal supervisory experience

• Proven track record running multi-crew operations safely and productively

• Deep understanding of Western US fuels and forestry environments in your region

• Experience managing field budgets and equipment economics

• Strong safety leadership — comfortable owning a safety culture from the front

• Excellent communication skills — comfortable in front of customers, agencies, communities, and crews

• Willingness to travel within your region

• Travel up to 50% of the time within region

• Ability to communicate effectively

• Passion for BurnBot's mission

It would be cool if…

• NWCG qualifications and active wildland fire experience

• Experience with mechanized fuels and forestry equipment (mastication, feller-bunchers, skidders, processors)

• Strong existing relationships with USFS, BLM, state, tribal, or utility partners in your region

• Experience standing up a new regional operation

• Native to the region you'll lead — local knowledge of fuels, weather, communities, and customers

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.