Environment Safety and Health - Livermore, USA, US
Position Type: Permanent Position
Application Review Begins: Friday, October 25, 2024
Application Deadline: Friday, January 24, 2025
Institution: Environment Safety and Health
City: Livermore, USA, US
We have an opening for a Botanist/Wildlife Biologist to support the Environment, Safety & Health Directorate, Water Resources and Environmental Planning Group. You will be responsible for understanding and interpreting the impacts of technical research and facility operations projects on natural resources including rare, threatened and endangered species and their habitats, migratory birds, wetlands, floodplains, and other sensitive areas.
This position may offer a hybrid schedule, which includes the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week, after a probationary period. The specifics of the hybrid schedule may vary based on the needs of the team and the organization.
Qualifications/Requirements:
• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in biological or ecological science, wildlife management, environmental science or related field.
• Comprehensive experience or knowledge in applying the provisions of the Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and other state and federal natural resource regulations.
• Broad knowledge of natural and managed ecosystems and floristics, and experience identifying common and rare plant species.
• Experience monitoring bird populations.
• Experience documenting technical work, communicating policies, procedures and complex requirements, and giving technical presentations to inter-organization and external stakeholders.
• Effective organizational skills with detail orientation necessary to handle multiple complex tasks in a demanding environment with conflicting priorities, tight and changing deadlines, and frequent interruptions while providing high-level customer service, and good follow-through.
• Analytical, decision-making and problem-solving skills to evaluate, interpret, negotiate, recommend and implement actions/solutions for moderate to complex problems.
Additional qualifications at the TSS.3 level:
• Advanced knowledge and significant experience independently interpreting and applying the provisions of the Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, or other federal natural resource regulations.
• Significant experience documenting and interpreting technical work, communicating policies, procedures and complex requirements, and giving technical presentations to professional colleagues and mid-level management.
• Advanced knowledge of California ecosystems and floristics, and experience identifying common and rare plant species.
Qualifications We Desire:
• Expertise in the ecology and conservation of special status plant and amphibian species.
• Service-approved for handling California red-legged frogs (Rana draytonii) and California tiger salamanders (Ambystoma californiense).
• Experience training and conducting briefings to staff and contractors on natural resource protection issues.
• Significant experience in management techniques for California Grassland ecosystems and/or in wetland delineation and/or riparian/aquatic habitat management.
Responsibilities: You will
• Serve as a technical contact and resource to LLNL programs to ensure that programs and projects comply with requirements of the Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and other applicable natural resource protection and conservation requirements. This will include a combination of field work, pre- and post-project surveys, and document preparation.
• Be responsible for field work tasks, as needed, primarily for floristic inventories, vegetation community sampling and mapping, and potentially for wetland delineations and compliance monitoring.
• Perform activities required to eliminate or reduce invasive and non-native species.
• Perform field work in adverse conditions including monitoring and other activities that may involve the collection of voucher specimens, capturing and releasing of animals, telemetry studies and observational studies.
• Contribute to monitoring reports, articles, posters, and other materials for employee and community awareness and outreach purposes.
• Respond to various wildlife concerns and employee-wildlife interaction issues.
• Train and oversee contractors and other LLNL staff on natural resource protection and management issues.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Additional job responsibilities, at the TSS.3 level:
• Provide advanced regulatory ESA guidance and recommendations to LLNL programs and operations in specific areas of assignment.
• Independently prepare and conduct assessments, monitoring programs, and other activities that may involve the capturing and releasing of animals, telemetry studies and observational studies.
• Prepare written correspondence to Federal, State, and other regulatory agencies concerning natural resource issues.
• Mentor less experienced personnel.
Application Instructions: To Apply, click the link below:
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Compensation Range: $132,810- $204,636 annually
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