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What you will do:
• Set up rearing containers to receive fry or fish. Set and monitor water flows and dissolved oxygen levels. Clean rearing containers as prescribed by good fish culture practices. Feed fish as directed with proper size, type and quantities of fish food. Monitor fish health, development, rearing environment, waste load and water flows, maintain accurate records. Recognize fish disease or parasite problems, promptly report problems to supervisor or pathologist. Calculate and administer chemical treatments, treat fish as prescribed by fish pathologist.
• Adult Broodstock Collection: inventory and order needed adult fish handling supplies, set up trap, sanitize and ready spawning area and equipment, operate trap, crowders and seines. Handle adult fish to determine number, species, stock, sex, maturity, ripeness and health. Measure and take samples: tissue, scales, fluids and weights. Spawn adult fish: anesthetize, euthanize, take eggs, sperm and estimate numbers of eggs taken. Observe for marks and tags: remove scales, snouts from marked fish and record information. Mark and inject fish as needed. Transport or move fish or spawned carcasses as needed.
• Maintain the hatchery water system: clean the intake, protect from freezing, checks and service valves and pumps as needed. Maintain hatchery water system to provide healthy rearing environments for all eggs and fish on station. Operate and help maintain special equipment such as: pickup trucks, lawn tractors, emergency generators, fish pumps, forklifts, hand and power tools. Maintain, power wash, paint and repair buildings, fishponds and hatchery structures. Fabricate tools or implements needed to enhance or facilitate fish culture duties. Service gas powered vehicles and equipment, perform minor tune-ups to small gas engines, wash vehicles and equipment. Maintain lawns, flowerbeds, shrubs and trees.
• Meet the public, maintain public relations, answer questions, and conduct hatchery tours.
Working Conditions
• Must frequently work during inclement weather and the resulting extremes of heat and cold. Must occasionally work in or near cold, deep, or fast moving water for extended periods of time. Must occasionally apply chemicals used in the treatment of fish or disinfection of fish culture equipment, as well as herbicides, fertilizers and insecticides. Occasionally use paint, vehicle fuel, lubricants and other solvents during routine maintenance activities. Occasionally work long hours during spawning and egg incubation seasons. May occasionally be exposed to high noise environments from equipment and vehicles. May occasionally work alone for extended periods and respond to emergencies while working alone. Display a good sense of diplomacy when dealing with the public.
• Requires a flexible work schedule that varies in the number of hours worked on a daily basis, but not necessarily each day, or a work schedule in which the starting and stopping times vary on a daily basis, but not necessarily each day. This includes working at all hours and workdays in excess of eight hours. Work weekends on a rotational basis and may have to respond to emergency situations while working alone.
• This position requires the possession of a Class B Commercial Driver License (CDL), tanker endorsement, and applicants must pass the air brake knowledge and skill test. On your application, be sure to indicate in the Work Experience section if you have a CDL. If the selected applicant does not possess a CDL, they are required to obtain this license within six months of hire and must retain it as a condition of continued employment in this position. The department provides a training program for drivers obtain their CDL and will train all new employees how to operate a department Commercial Motor Vehicle. The department does not pay the cost for the CDL however, the department will reimburse employees up to one-hundred dollars ($100) for the CDL examination fees and renewal licensing fees pursuant to the Collective Bargaining Agreement 2021-2023 Letter of Agreement 00.00-19-338. The cost of the physical exam would be covered (usual, customary, and reasonable as determined by PEBB Medical Plans) if the employee is enrolled in an eligible PEBB Medical Plan. Pursuant to the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991 and Federal Highway Administration regulations, candidates must successfully pass a preemployment controlled substance test before being hired into this position. Additionally, employees required to hold a CDL will be subject to random, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, return-to-duty, and follow-up alcohol/controlled substance testing as a condition of employment.
• This position requires living on station as a condition of employment and working on an on-call basis as assigned and available to respond to emergency situations.
Minimum Qualifications:
• An Associate degree in Fisheries Technology, Aquaculture or Aquarium Science; OR
• Eighteen months of fish culture (care of fish) experience. (six months of fisheries, fish screens, wildlife or related habitat work experience will count toward this experience).
A higher level degree in Fisheries Science or a closely-related degree with at least 45 quarter (30 semester) hours of biological/ecological coursework will substitute for the Associate's degree.
Requested Skills:
• Fish culture experience in a hatchery setting
• Working with eggs and fry
• Handling adult fish
• Experience with water systems and maintenance
• Operating electronic or mechanical equipment
• Collecting and recording data
• Writing technical or summary reports
• Using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
• Working with the public
Additional Information:
Your answers to the supplemental questions must be supported by your resume or the "Job History" section in your application or you may not be considered for this position. You may be disqualified if your experience listed in your resume or the “Job History” section does not include information used to: 1) meet the minimum qualifications of the job and 2) back up your answers to the supplemental questions. If any of the positions listed in your application are part time or seasonal, be sure to include the dates you worked (month and year) and the average amount of hours worked per week in the duties section. Only those individuals who most closely match the requested skills will be invited to an interview.