Removed: Required Training and Required Experience and replaced with "The qualification pathway for this position is discontinued per NWCG direction on January, 2023. Responders with an active PTB will transition to the corresponding complex position PTB."
Planning Section Chief Type 2*
The Planning Section Chief Type 2 (PSC2) manages all aspects of incident planning, situation and resource status, and demobilization of an incident. The PSC2 supervises members of the Planning Section. The PSC2 is part of the Command and General (C&G) Staff and reports to the Incident Commander (IC) under typical incident organizations. The PSC2 works in the Planning functional area.
The PSC2 performs position duties commensurate with Type 2 incident complexity and characteristics stated in the Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations (Red Book). (Type 1, 2 and 3 PSC duties are identical but performed at different complexity levels.)
Updated: Position Endorsement
The position for this endorsement is currently being evaluated to the new standards for Complex Incident Management, for current information regarding this change, please contact your NIMSIC representative.
Added: Planning Section Chief Complex (PSCC) to "These Positions Maintain Currency For PSC2" and "PSC2 Maintains Currency For These Positions."
Added: Incident Position Description (IPD) approved.
Updated: Prerequisite experience modified as follows:
Satisfactory performance as a Situation Unit Leader (SITL).
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Completion and Certification of Position Task Book (PMS 311-23) as a Planning Section Chief Type 2 (PSC2) on a wildfire incident.
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Satisfactory performance as a Resources Unit Leader (RESL).
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Completion and Certification of Position Task Book (PMS 311-23) as a Planning Section Chief Type 2 (PSC2) on a wildfire incident.
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Satisfactory performance as a Planning Section Chief Type 3 (PSC3).
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Completion and Certification of Position Task Book (PMS 311-23) as a Planning Section Chief Type 2 (PSC2) on a wildfire incident.
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Satisfactory performance as an Operations Section Chief Type 2 (OSC2).
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Completion and Certification of Position Task Book (PMS 311-23) as a Planning Section Chief Type 2 (PSC2) on a wildfire incident*.
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Satisfactory performance as a Logistics Section Chief Type 2 (LSC2).
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Completion and Certification of Position Task Book (PMS 311-23) as a Planning Section Chief Type 2 (PSC2) on a wildfire incident*.
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Satisfactory performance as a Safety Officer Type 2 (SOF2).
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Completion and Certification of Position Task Book (PMS 311-23) as a Planning Section Chief Type 2 (PSC2) on a wildfire incident*.
Added: S-420 Command & General Staff (32 hrs.).
Position created.
Planning Section Chief (Multi-Branch), Planning Section Chief (Multi-Division) and Planning Section Chief (Multi-Leader) in 1984 PMS 310-1.