Summer Employment
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Duties, skills, grade levels, and more information…
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, collecting biological samples and using water chemistry meters.
- Organizes and reviews data from data sheets and field data recorders (FDR’s) to identify missing, illegible and/or incorrect data, and make necessary corrections. Downloads data from FDR’s, GPS units and water chemistry meters into electronic spreadsheets and/or tables using various software programs.
Crew Member (GS-4/5 and SCA Internship)
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, collecting biological samples and using water chemistry meters.
- Records collected data into field data recorders and hand written survey data forms.
Field Reconnaissance Staff (GS-3/4/5/6)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Makes 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.
- Calibrate, program, place, and recover thermographs in sample watersheds. Also, takes digital photographs of the site, roads, bridges and other landmarks used to identify thermograph location.
Field Support Staff (GS-3/4)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintains, inventories and repairs field survey gear and camping equipment. Calibrates water chemistry equipment in accordance with established guidelines.
- Delivers equipment to field crews and assists backcountry crews in transporting gear to survey sites.
- When necessary, fills in as a backup crewmember where he/she will help collect physical, biological, and hydrologic field data in adherence to the protocol provided.
- Assists in data entry and downloading electronic equipment and portable data recorders.
Office Assistant (GS-4/5)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assists staff by maintaining and entering time sheets and travel information and ensuring that field crew personnel are paid.
- Ability to track a budget, possesses clerical skills, and work with spreadsheets and graphics, such as, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Maintains files associated with personnel paperwork.
- Provides general staff support in the office.
- Maintains, downloads and corrects incoming electronic data and other information from summer field personnel.
- Enters and downloads data into spreadsheets and database tables and may perform simple analysis to conduct quality control and quality assurance on raw data files.
- Responsible for inspecting data for errors, making appropriate corrections, and coordinating and consulting with data manager on any problems or concerns with the data.
- Uses various electronic equipment and software to transfer data from laptops or desktop PC’s to local network, paying particular attention to quality assurance/control procedures regarding incoming electronic and paper data.
Title
Position Type
Hourly Wage**
# of Positions*
Time Period*
Application Deadline
Crew Leader
Biological Technician –GS-6 (General)
$15.42
5
April 28 - Sept 24
February 1
Crew Member
Biological Technician – GS-4/5 (Fisheries)
$12.36 -$13.83
10
May 27 - Sept 24
February 22
SCA Internship
Stipend
5
May 27 - Aug 27
February 22
Field Reconnaissance Staff
Hydrologic Technician/Aide – GS - 3/4/5/6
$11.01 - $15.42
2-4
March 31 - Oct 1
February 1
Field Support Staff
Biological Technician GS - 3/4
$11.01 - $12.36
1-2
June 9 - Sept 24
March 14
Office Assistant
Biological Technician GS – 4/5
$12.36 -$13.83
1-2
May 27 - Oct 1
March 14
*Starting/ending dates and number of positions may be subject to change.
**Salary is approximate due to locality pay adjustments.
What Grade Level can I apply for?
You can determine what grade level you qualify for (based on general experience, specialized experience, and education) by checking out the information at
http://opm.gov/qualifications/SEC-IV/A/GS-TECH.HTM.
What is the hourly salary?
Salaries vary depending on grade level. Information can be found at http://www.opm.gov/oca/07tables/html/RUS_h.asp.
The first column (GS -- see above for the GS level(s) you qualify at) is the GS level, the second column (B/O) is the hour type (B = base time, O = overtime) and the third column (1) is the hourly salary for these positions.
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. Our expected training and summer schedule is here.
If you are applying for crew leader the positions start in May, click here to view 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 May. The criteria are based on the start date of the position.
