Northwest Forest Plan

Summer Employment

Duties, skills, grade levels, and more information…

Stream Survey Crew Leader (GS-6)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Distributes workload among crew members and checks status and progress of work, making necessary adjustments. Serves as the first-line interpreter of the protocol for crew members. Assesses working conditions and ensures work is done safely and efficiently. Monitors performance and handles informal complaints among crew members. Reports on employee performance, and records work time and leave of employees.
• Uses commonly accepted fisheries and aquatic techniques to collect a variety of field data concerning watershed health including, but not limited to: surveying channel profiles, tallying wood occurrences, measuring substrate dimensions, searching for terrestrial amphibians, searching for invasive plants and animals, and collecting macroinvertebrate samples.
• Organizes and reviews data from customized ArcPad applications to identify missing, illegible and/or incorrect data, and make necessary corrections. Downloads data from field data recorders and GPS units into field database.

Stream Survey Crew Member (GS-5 and SCA Interns)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Uses commonly accepted fisheries and aquatic techniques to collect a variety of field data concerning watershed health including, but not limited to: surveying channel profiles, tallying wood occurrences, measuring substrate dimensions, searching for terrestrial amphibians, searching for invasive plants and animals, and collecting macroinvertebrate samples.
• Records collected data into field data recorders and hand written survey data forms.

Temperature Monitoring Crew (GS-/5 and 6)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Calibrate, deploy, and download instream and air temperature sensors in 100+ watersheds on Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service lands in western Oregon and Washington.
• Responsible for extensive planning and logistics to calibrate, download and deploy temperature sensors including mapping routes, finding campgrounds, navigating to remote sites, and occasional backpacking trips.
• May assist stream survey crews by making independent decisions in the field regarding accessibility and if a sample site or watershed can be surveyed by the field crews.
• Contacts district biologists in order to gain access to and obtain knowledge of watersheds.
• Assists field coordinators with logistics by identifying and mapping routes to sites and reporting relevant information. Locates campsites and other necessities, such as radio contacts, water supplies, gas stations, hospitals and potential hazards for the safety of field crews.

Title	Position Type	Hourly Wage*	# of Positions	Time Period**	Application Deadline
Stream Survey Crew Leader	Biological Technician GS-6 (General)	$16.73	4	Apr 15 - Sep 18	Feb 8
Stream Survey Crew Member	Biological Technician GS-5 (Fisheries)	$15.00	8	May 13 - Sep 18	Feb 8
	SCA Biology Intern	Stipend	4	May 13 - Aug 21	Mar 1
Temperature Monitoring Crew Leader and Crew Members	Hydrologic Technician GS-5 and 6	$15.00 - $16.73	3	Apr 15 - Sep 18	Feb 8
	SCA Hydrology Intern	Stipend	3	May 13 - Sep 18	Mar 1

*Salary is approximate due to locality pay adjustments.

**Starting/ending dates and number of positions may be subject to change.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU GET YOUR APPLICATION IN EARLY TO ENSURE IT IS SUBMITTED BEFORE WE PULL A LIST OF CANDIDATES. GENERALLY IT IS ADVISABLE TO HAVE YOUR APPLICATION IN BY JANUARY 31, 2013

What is the work schedule?
We typically work Wednesday to Wednesday (8 consecutive days) which leaves you six days off (Thursday to Tuesday) for recuperation, exploring the Pacific Northwest, and doing your laundry.

If you are applying for crew leader the positions start in April, see the crew leader training schedule.

When will you be notifying people they were selected?
We hope to start making all our job offers in early February and conclude hiring by the end of March.