Aquatic Biologist I Fisheries/Hydrology (Biotech)
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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, and aptitude to learn new skills.
What the job is: This is a unique full-time position working as an Aquatic Biologist in two different disciplines, Fisheries and Hydrology. When working in fisheries, 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. When working in hydrology, your focus is to collect stream discharge measurements, sediment samples and water samples for suspended sediment and turbidity monitoring. You will conduct analysis of water samples in the lab and assist in the maintenance of rain gauges and weather stations.
The data you collect will be entered into field tablets and downloaded into our databases for use by our research team. You should have a bachelor's degree in fisheries, biology, hydrology, geology, watershed management or related programs. 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. Part of our program is to make sure you get extensive safety training for this role before any field work begins.
Work schedule: This job is unique in that you will work in fisheries from March to October and then in hydrology from November to April. A typical day is 8 to 10 hours depending on where the work is located on the property. The crew meets on Monday to discuss the plans for the week and what the work will be. After meeting, you collect the field gear that is needed and 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 careful 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:
Hourly wage range with progression levels: $23.00 to $29.61. The pay range listed is just one part of Green Diamond's total compensation package. Other rewards include eligibility to receive an annual company-wide financial bonus and the opportunity to receive a bonus based on your personal performance.
In addition, Green Diamond offers a generous benefit package to include medical/vision and dental, life and disability insurance, 401(k) plan with match and profit sharing. Paid time off includes 9 designated and up to 2 personal holidays, 10 vacation days, 10 sick days, 30 days parental leave, 3 days bereavement, an extra 2 days bereavement unpaid, jury duty, 1 volunteer day, and 5 days family care. Also provided is a company vehicle for business use. More information about benefits can be viewed on our website: 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.
