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Salary– $3,987.00 – $5,229.00 Monthly

Picture yourself providing technical consultation to landowners, businesses, agency personnel, and others on EGC-related issues and consulting with other agencies, organizations, and governmental units.

With your experience, you will work with lead project biologist to determine techniques and procedures, perform field investigations or research projects, and assist in preparing management/research reports or proposals based on those activities.

The optimal applicant possesses at least one year of experience managing and monitoring EGC.

You thrive on building collaboration and teamwork, coordinating with agency partners, tribal co-managers, and other entities to conduct EGC work.

You are excited to organize and conduct intensive EGC removal trapping efforts in coordination with federal, state, local, tribal governments, stakeholders, and volunteers.

We are seeking a candidate who will support the WDFW mission of protecting, restoring, and enhancing fish and wildlife and their habitats, while providing sustainable fish and wildlife-related recreational and commercial opportunities through habitat protection and enhancement activities.

Duties

Our European Green Crab Biologist,

  • Organizes and conducts early detection, monitoring, assessments, rapid responses, control/removal, and research trapping efforts for EGC throughout coastal intertidal and subtidal habitats using established procedures.
  • Organizes and conducts surveys to determine relative abundance, distribution, and population trends of EGC.
  • May operate motorized (i.e. airboats, <26>
  • May work in and around watercrafts performing trapping strategies predetermined for subtidal efforts; incumbents may deploy various traps (i.e. shrimp, minnow, Fukui) from watercrafts, record location and return the following day to retrieve the traps manually or via a pot puller and remove and record any crabs and/or bycatch; this process may be repeated for up to 5 days at a time.
  • Develops initial reports of data collected and provides recommendations to higher level fish and wildlife staff for management actions.
  • Maintains records and prepares reports, prepares detailed summary reports, and conducts higher level quality control and quality assurance on all data.
  • Assists in organization and facilitation of EGC Taskforce meetings.
  • Participates in EGC taskforce meetings providing technical advice and support.
  • Trains staff to properly conduct EGC monitoring using established protocols.
  • Obtains permission to work on private and public property.
  • Supervises Fish and Wildlife regional EGC Bio 1 staff.
  • May assist with other projects such as Zebra/Quagga Mussels, African Clawed Frogs, or any new AIS that pops up in WA state.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Work Setting, including hazards:    

  • Approximately 80% field and 20% office.
  • EGC monitoring is physically demanding, hiking 2 to 3 miles per day and carrying up to a 50-pound dry bag or frame pack throughout Washington’s vast marine environments, including but not limited to, intertidal habitats such as marshes, channels, and mudflats.
  • Potential hazards include uneven terrain, stinging vegetation and insects, biting and pinching animals, and possible encounters with wildlife.
  • Usually part of a team, sometimes working independently, in remote locations (following strict call in and out procedures), during inclement weather, day and night.
    • May operate motorize (i.e. airboats, <26>

Schedule:

  • Workweek will typically be the first 40 hours of work per week (24/7).
  • May be required to occasionally exceed these hours, work outside of normal workweek during holidays and weekends, and respond on short notice to rapid response AIS emergencies.

Travel Requirements:

This position requires frequent statewide travel and overnight stays up to five days at times.

Tools and Equipment:

  • Desktops, laptops, smart phones, electronic tablets, electronic software forms, PFDs, and field gear (i.e. hip boots, xtratuffs, raingear, dry bag, frame pack).
  • Complex mobile water quality laboratory, eDNA, and non-electronic biological and environmental sampling devices.
  • 25 foot-cargo trailer, watercrafts, flatbed trailer, winches, motor vehicles, and complex hot water trailered and hand-pushed pressure washers.

Customer Interactions:

  • Interacts with the public on a regular basis while conducting fieldwork.
  • Occasionally confronted by citizens that are non-compliant or not cooperative.
  • Coordinates regularly with tribal co-managers and works on tribal lands.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Closely related qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-by-year basis.

OR

  • A Bachelor’s Degree in one of the following:
    • Fisheries.
    • Wildlife management.
    • Natural resource science.
    • Environmental science.

AND

  • One (1) year of professional experience in one or more of the following:
    • Fish management or research.
    • Wildlife management or research.
    • Habitat management or research.