Organization: Snohomish County Public Works
Job Category: Water and Sewers
Job Type: Full Time
Country: USA
State/Province: Washington (WA)
City: Everett
Post Code: 98201
Salary and Benefits: $68,950.20 - $83,756.52 Annually
Post Date: 01/31/2017
Snohomish County Surface Water Management (SWM) is seeking a Habitat Specialist to participate in salmon recovery, collect habitat and water quality parameters from local waterbodies, manage and analyze data, write reports and assist with environmental permitting.
The ideal candidate has:
- Professional experience building and maintaining collaborative relationships with agencies, tribes, and other stakeholders.
- Significant expertise in salmon life history and habitat requirements and salmon recovery practices. This includes knowledge of salmon recovery management at the local and regional scale.
- Significant experience managing and analyzing natural resource datasets. Experience using GIS to analyze habitat data is a plus.
- Experience planning and conducting natural resource surveys in rivers, streams, estuaries and marine shorelines.
- Experience monitoring various stream, river, estuary and/or marine project types (protection, restoration, mitigation) to evaluate effectiveness.
- Experience writing sampling and quality assurance plans and technical and non-technical reports.
- Knowledge of Critical Area Regulations, Shoreline Management Plans, and Flood Hazards regulations as it applies to permitting capital projects.
- Knowledge of federal and state environmental permitting requirements such as requirements for Corp permits and Hydraulic Project Approvals.
Surface Water Management is a diverse group of engineers, scientists, and planners with a mission of protecting and enhancing water quality and aquatic habitat, minimizing damage from flooding and erosion, and preserving water resources for future generations. The successful candidate will also have qualities in alignment with SWM's core values of providing and demonstrating high quality service, leadership, stewardship, accountability, respect, and integrity.
We are looking for a team-oriented, highly-motivated person with strong communication skills who enjoys working in inclement environments. If you believe this position is a good match, we encourage you to apply and bring your enthusiasm, motivation and knowledge to our driven and accomplished team!
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