Who you are: You love being outdoors, enjoy the water and have a passion for fish. Your personal hobbies might include backpacking, fishing, hunting, or other outdoor activities. You as a person and a professional are eager, have a positive attitude, strong work ethic, aptitude to learn new skills, and like working as a team.
What the job is: As a Seasonal Fisheries Technician your focus is conducting fish monitoring and assessment in conjunction with Green Diamond’s California Aquatic Habitat Conservation Plan (AHCP). You will be checking and maintaining out-migrant traps for juvenile salmonids, deploying and retrieving water temperature sensors, and assisting in surveying long term channel monitoring reaches. You will conduct snorkel and electro-fishing surveys for juvenile salmonids as well. The data you collect will be entered into field tablets and downloaded into our databases for use by our research team. You should have some college course work in fisheries biology or other related programs and maybe some experience in this type of work. This position works primarily in the field using four-wheel drive vehicles and hiking to get the work done. You should be effective at using GPS, maps, and situational awareness to navigate in challenging terrain and weather conditions. Your safety is always the number one priority. You will get extensive safety training for this role before any field work begins.
Work schedule: This job is seasonal; usually working from August to October. A typical day is working Monday - Thursday 10 hour days. The crew meets to discuss the plans for the week and what the work will be. After meeting, field gear that is needed is collected and you go out to start work. We typically work in small groups, so someone is nearby for safety purposes, however, there are some tasks that require working alone and taking responsibility for your own safety.
Where you’ll work: You will work on nearly 400,0000 acres of Green Diamond’s privately held forest property, located in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties along the Northern California coast. Our offices are nestled in the redwood forest near the Pacific Ocean.
Compensation:
The rate for this job is $20.00 per hour. Green Diamond offers a few benefits for seasonal jobs. These include participation in the 401(k) plan with match and access to the Employee Assistance Program. Paid days off include company holidays that occur during the season, up to 2 floating (personal) holidays and 3 days of bereavement leave and 2 days unpaid bereavement. Sick leave is available to take once you start. It accrues at 3.08 hours every pay period. We provide a company vehicle for business use. More information about these benefits can be found at www.greendiamond.com/people/career-opportunities.
Who Green Diamond is: We grow and nurture forests, a renewable resource to build homes, schools, and household necessities, harnessing carbon every single day we operate. We’re a family-owned company that is guided by our values of environmental stewardship and supporting our local communities. We do what’s right, even when it is the harder path to follow. We focus on the health and safety of our people first – by taking care of all our resources, we plan to be here for another 130 years.
