IMPORTANT: This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders. Other applicants need not apply.
The Preserve Management Assistant will travel throughout the Prairie Forest Border Ecoregion in central and southeast Minnesota participating in preserve management activities which may include some or all of the following functions:
• Maintain preserve areas frequented by the visiting public
• Remove exotic species and/or species monitoring (including possible use of herbicides)
• Prescribed burn preparation, implementation, and post-fire monitoring
• Maintain tools and equipment
• Brush and tree removal
• Seed harvest
• Photo monitoring
• Other preserve management activities
All TNC staff actively participating on a prescribed burn must be qualified as a FFT2. The Preserve Management Assistant will participate in preparing fire lines, maintaining equipment, post-burn monitoring and other tasks.
This is a short-term position from April 11 through November 4, 2011.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
• Experience working with natural systems.
• Ability to recognize plant and animal species as required to complete preserve management activities.
• Qualified as or able to meet qualifications for FFT2, including Introduction to ICS (I-100), Human Factors on the Fireline (L-180), Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior (S-190), Firefighting Training (S-130), and one training burn serving under the supervision of a qualified FFT2. See http://www.tncfiremanual.org/firefighter.htm
• Ability to operate and maintain various types of equipment in a safe and efficient manner (e.g. ATV, tractor, engine, chainsaw, two-way radio).
• Ability to follow instructions from colleagues
• Ability to pass US Forest Service work capacity test at arduous level (3 mile walk with 45 lb pack in 45 minutes)
WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL EFFORT:
The Preserve Management Assistant may work in variable weather conditions, at remote locations, on difficult and hazardous terrain and under physically demanding circumstances. These conditions:
• require considerable physical exertion and/or muscular strain
• present frequent possibility of injury
• require long hours in isolated settings?
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