Job Title: State Trapper
Part-Time
Location: Tooele
Job Description:
The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, Predator Control Program is seeking help to assist livestock producers and wildlife biologists with predatory animals. The employee in this job helps protect animals and resources through direct control using best management practices. They will help verify losses to herds and flocks and coordinate the most efficient and timely approved method of control. They will be required to plan and strategize with local livestock producers, wildlife biologists, private and federal contractors, and other private vendors. The employee will need to live in the geographic area or district in which this position is located. Walking, hiking, or jogging will be required. The employee will be required seasonally to camp 3-4 nights a week in remote areas. Employees may serve as aerial gunners during seasons and aid in aerial operations.
Principal Duties:

• Protect livestock and wildlife from predators by using firearms and traps.
• Work with local livestock producers and wildlife biologists.
• Verify and confirm livestock and wildlife mortalities.
• Planned, coordinated, and strategized aerial operations with ground crews and producers.
• Communicate with cooperators regularly.
• Maintain and prepare equipment needed for work in the field and ensure they are safe and operable.
• Travel on foot, vehicle, ATV, or horse, to working areas and lift heavy objects.
• Maintain detailed records of inspections and investigations.
• Compile data and records electronically via computer or smartphone.
• Be responsible, respectful, and mindful.
• Be ethical, proficient, and effective.
• Establish positive working relationships with cooperators and others.

Ideal Candidate:

• Worked with livestock. 
• Understands livestock and wildlife behaviors in natural settings.
• Identify illnesses or causes of death in animals. 
• Coordinates with livestock producers, ranchers, farmers, wildlife biologists, and managers. 
• Knowledge of hunting and trapping predators.
• Actively hike, jog, and walk-in outdoor terrains. 
• Owns dogs bred for hunting predators. 
• Actively maintains a high level of horsemanship. 
• Knowledge and familiarity with handling and operating firearms proficiently and safely. 
• Operate 4x4 trucks and ATVs in rugged terrain. 
• Speak or understand the Spanish language.

Why You Should Join Our Team:
Would you like to work for the Department of Agriculture and Food? If you would like the opportunity to protect Utah's livestock while working towards the overall mission of the department in keeping Utah healthy, conserving our natural resources, and protecting our food supply. We offer great benefits and a family-friendly work environment.
The Agency:
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• Communicate, read and understand information and ideas presented verbally and in writing. 
• Following sets of rules that produce clear and reasonable answers. 
• Identify or detect known patterns with equipment, tools, and animals. 
• Knowing your location in relation to the landscape and understanding terrain.
• Concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
• Being able to use speech, sounds or touch to perform two or more activities simultaneously.
• Being able to keep your arm and hand steady while holding a single position or while moving. Maintaining dexterity and speed to grasp/manipulate objects, along with precise finger movements to grasp and manipulate small objects.
• The ability to use your body and muscles to perform tasks over extended periods of time without fatigue.
• Quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• Knowledge of operating machines, equipment and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Coordination between arms and legs while sitting, standing, or lying down. 
• Judge the differences between you and an object and the differences in shades of color and brightness.
• Detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and volume.
• Focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds and the direction from which it originated.
• Understand and communicate clearly with another person while patiently giving them your full attention. Asking appropriate questions at appropriate times to understand the situation more clearly.
• Selecting and using training or instructional tools and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new skills.
• Identifying complex problems, including operating errors, while developing and implementing solutions.
• Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and choosing the most appropriate one.
• Monitoring your performance and the performance of the organizations you are working with to make beneficial improvements.
• Knowledge of plants and animals, their functions, and interactions with each other and the environment.
• Assessing others reactions and adjusting your reactions to better understand one another. 
• Looking for ways to willingly help and learn from other individuals.
• Managing your own time and valuing the time of others.
• Providing high quality customer service.
• Understand and follow laws and government regulations, and agency policies.
• Knowledge of applications and programming.
• Risks found in potentially dangerous or unusual environmental stress situations, e.g. working at great heights.
• The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as frequent climbing, lifting heavy objects over 50 pounds, crouching or crawling in restricted areas.
• Working in outdoor weather conditions and mountainous terrain. 
• Must demonstrate a respect for safety in all operations, including the operation of motor vehicles, firearms, control devices, and equipment.
• Must have a knowledge of and be capable of using electronic equipment (GPS, smart phone, computer)

• Exposure to adverse, inclement, and varying weather conditions
• Risks found in potentially dangerous or unusual environmental stress situations, e.g. working at great heights, working in extreme outdoor weather conditions, being subject to possible physical attack, etc.
• The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as frequent climbing, lifting heavy objects over 50 pounds, crouching or crawling in restricted areas, defending oneself and/or others against physical attack.
• Valid driver license required to drive a motor vehicle on a highway in this state per UCA53-3-202(1)(a).
• Must obtain or have a valid U.S. driver’s license. Operation of state government-owned or leased vehicles is required. (if this applies)
  After successfully passing the initial screening, the employee enters the NRA Basic Firearms Training, or other approved training by UDAF. The NRA Basic Firearms exam is 8 hours which includes written and field tests. Employment is determined based on the successful completion of the training.
• In order to perform the essential duties of this position, you must have the legal and physical ability to possess and discharge firearms.