Starting Wage: $16.00/hr.

Job Summary:

Active participant in the Natural Resources Summer Youth Crew project. Efficiently complete a variety of natural resource related projects. This position is partially grant funded.

Essential Functions:

• Participates in day-to-day details of crew life at work and in camp.
• Contributes to a physically and emotionally safe work site.
• Efficiently completes conservation projects.
• Participates in Environmental and Life Skills Curriculum via formal and informal lessons.
• Safely processes and packages Pacific Lamprey.
• Safely operates hand tools while wearing proper personal protective equipment.
• Performs a variety of other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications:

• A desire to work in the natural resources field.
• Must be between the age of 15 and 18 years of age.
• Must be in good physical condition and be able to work in rugged outdoor terrain.
• Experience in the proper use of hand tools preferred.
• Must have good communication skills.
• Must supply your own work boots.
• Must be able to work under adverse conditions, during days and nights and on weekends.
• Ability to exercise common sense and self-initiative to carry out instructions furnished in oral, written, or diagram form.
• Must be able to exercise sound judgment.
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to Native American culture required.

Environmental Factors and Conditions/Physical Requirements:

• Continually requires the ability to work under strenuous or adverse conditions for
• extended periods, while maintaining mental alertness and concentration to maintain work rate, quality, and safety.
• Continually requires moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.
• Continually requires the ability to express or receive detailed information or important instructions through oral communication.
• Continually requires working with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm. Requires repetitive movement of wrists, hands and/or fingers. Often requires walking or moving about to accomplish tasks.
• Requires standing and/or sitting for sustained periods of time, raising objects from a lower to a higher position and/or moving objects horizontally.
• Occasionally requires lifting of up to 100 pounds.
• Frequently requires stooping which entails the use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Frequently requires bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• May be called upon to serve as a Disaster Reservist during Emergencies, or when the Tribal Emergency Operations Center is opened.
• Local travel is occasionally required. Travel outside of the state is infrequently required.

Background Check:

Candidates for this position will be subject to criminal and character background checks and may be subject to fingerprinting.