Cultural Resources Protection Technician I.

Job Description:

SUMMARY

The Department of Natural Resources & Culture’s (DNRC) mission is to research, monitor, assess, manage, conserve, protect, enhance, utilize, and restore the cultural and natural resources within the Tribe’s area of interest. Natural resources are cultural resources, and many of the Tribe’s values, meanings, and identities are closely linked with features of this landscape. The environmental programs within the DNRC work to support monitoring for the health and protection of these resources and the landscape. DNRC staff implement various plans for monitoring of baseline environmental trends and investigate pollution due to spills, disturbance, climate change, ocean acidification, etc., undertake damage assessments, and implement restoration and effectiveness monitoring where possible. Staff work collaboratively to merge western science and indigenous knowledge through various programs for the benefit of Tribal membership and future generations.

The Cultural Resources Technician I will support the implementation and integration of the Tribe’s environmental programs. This position will primarily be responsible for monitoring activities (including basic water quality parameters, riparian and other biological surveys) in both field work and laboratory analysis, assisting with the coordination of the Tribal greenhouse and plant propagation, and education and outreach relating to those activities. Administrative assistance will be requested for laboratory quality assurance, grant implementation, and natural resource policy review.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work as part of a team to implement the Tribe’s Environmental Program, through guidance from the EPA Tribal Environmental Plan.
• Responsible for field monitoring for basic water quality parameters: particulates, pH, DO, salinity, conductivity, turbidity, nutrients, macroinvertebrates, bacteria, and vegetation that supports the Tribe’s Water Quality Standards throughout the Tribe’s area of interest and established water monitoring sites.
• Operate, maintain, and troubleshoot associated equipment (sondes, field sampling equipment, bacteria incubators, small inland vessel)
• Support restoration activities in assistance with the Tribal greenhouse and traditional cultural plant propagation.
• Communication for needs in supplies procurement.
• Assist in basic laboratory facility and greenhouse hygiene.
• Assist as needed in quality assurance requests, such as health and safety, updating SOPs and QAPPs, QA/QC of laboratory data.
• Assist with updates to relevant components of the EPA-Tribal Environmental Plan, Tribal Spill Response Plan, Land Quality Assurance Project Plan, Surface Water and Fixed Station Quality Assurance Project Plan, the Air Quality Assurance Project Plan, the Wastewater Treatment Monitoring Plan, the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan, the Non-point Source Pollution Management Plan, the Integrated Water Quality Monitoring Strategy, and the Water Quality Standards (as needed).
• Assist in grant applications, grant reporting, and contract development and implementation.
• Undertake trainings to expand expertise and maintain credentials
• Regularly attend Watershed meetings, small grant team and other stakeholder meetings within the Tribe’s area of interest.
• Assist program education and outreach activities as requested.
• Provide input for Environmental Site Assessments and/or NEPA EA/EIS review as needed and directed.
• Work various special projects as assigned by the Director, Assistant Director, or the Chief Executive Officer.

LEVEL OF AUTHORITY & RESTRICTIONS

• No supervisory authority.

PHYSICAL & MENTAL DEMANDS

• Requires the ability to manage moderate levels of stress arising from schedules, workload, diverse or adversarial stakeholders, etc.
• Must be able to walk, talk, hear, use hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms.
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Must be required to push, pull, lift, and/or carry up to 50 pounds.

WORKING CONDITIONS & ENVIRONMENT

• Work effectively in a team environment with a diverse variety of technical, professional, and administrative staff.
• Work effectively in a negotiating environment where others may have diverse and competing interests and may be uncooperative or adversarial.
• Moderate noise level with frequent interruptions and distractions.
• May require the ability to walk, hike, swim, drive, and boat in difficult conditions at various hours and days of the week.
• Requires occasionally irregular working schedules around tides, other cycles or events, evening and weekend meetings, out-of-area travel for meetings, conferences, workshops, trainings, etc.

JOB LOCATION

Tribal Administrative Office
1245 Fulton Avenue
Coos Bay, Oregon 97420