The Great Basin Institute, in cooperation with the US Forest Service, Sequoia National Forest, is recruiting one Hydrology Crew Technician who will work under the direction of a GBI Hydrology Crew Lead and/or the USFS to perform assignments of limited scope and complexity which are designed to contribute to the continuing professional development of the employee and forest objectives. Work will include opportunities to gain resource management experience in land management planning and implementation, hydrologic evaluation techniques and procedures used to identify management opportunities, preparing management prescriptions for protecting and/or enhancing the water resource, and standard administrative procedures, including program budgeting. Work on this position will begin as soon as hired personnel are available and will continue until approximately October 2025.

A Temporary Special Assignment (TSA) employee is one who is hired for a specific temporary assignment external from the institute’s administrative operations with one of GBI’s partners for 52 weeks or greater or less than 52 weeks and may work full-time (30 or more hours per week) or part-time (less than 30 hours per week).

Essential Job Functions may include the following:

• Conducting water resource inventories, field surveys, flagging and preparing the resulting data for application into the land management planning process;
• Prepare and direct implementation of water resource improvement project plans;
• Evaluate impacts of forest management on the water resource; and
• Aid in assessing water resource capability and suitability and identifying goals, issues, and concerns for water resource management. Duties include brief assignments to other functional areas to gain understanding of how they operate and how hydrologic information may be used by related disciplines.

The goal is to carry out relatively routine hydrology assignments or portions of more complex activities of a broader scope. The technician will inventory, analyze, and interpret various hydrologic factors and conditions to determine interrelationships, deviations, and relationships to forest resource management.

The work is physically demanding and involves hiking in steep terrain at high altitudes (4,000 to 9000 ft.) on a daily basis, commonly during extreme or inclement weather such as snow or rain or high wind events. Candidates will need to bring their own gear for such conditions. The position will require working in remote locations on National Forest lands to accomplish project goals. Work schedules can consist of 5 days per week (8 hours/day). However, there is high potential for an abbreviated work schedule consisting of 4 days per week (10 hour days). Work schedules are subject to change depending on weather and project needs. This is principally a field-based position with 80% of time in the field and 20% in an office.

Camping may be required as part of work. During the work week camping will occur at established sites within the Sequoia National Forest. The field work schedule is likely to be Monday-Thursday, 10 hours/day, 40 hours/week. Some weekend work or irregular hours may be required. 

WORK SCHEDULE

This position will begin in mid-May and end as late as mid-November. Season start and end dates are project and weather dependent and may change slightly. 

Forestry Crew positions follow 10 hour days, 4 days a week schedule. 

Temporary Special Assignment employees are eligible to receive holiday pay, if partner approved. TSAs working four (4) ten (10) hour days per workweek will be paid ten (10) hours for all holidays.  Same with other approved/allowable workweek configurations; these can be accommodated accordingly with Banked Holiday(s).