Youth Crew Member - Limited Duration Summer

Job Summary:

Active participant in the Natural Resources Summer Youth Crew project. Efficiently complete a variety of natural resource related projects. This position is partially grant funded.

Essential Functions:

• Participates in day-to-day details of crew life at work and in camp.
• Contributes to a physically and emotionally safe work site.
• Efficiently completes conservation projects.
• Participates in Environmental and Life Skills Curriculum via formal and informal lessons.
• Safely processes and packages Pacific Lamprey.
• Safely operates hand tools while wearing proper personal protective equipment.
• Performs a variety of other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications:

• A desire to work in the natural resources field.
• Must be between the age of 15 and 18 years of age.
• Must be in good physical condition and be able to work in rugged outdoor terrain.
• Experience in the proper use of hand tools preferred.
• Must have good communication skills.
• Must supply your own work boots.
• Must be able to work under adverse conditions, during days and nights and on weekends.
• Ability to exercise common sense and self-initiative to carry out instructions furnished in oral, written, or diagram form.
• Must be able to exercise sound judgment.
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to Native American culture required.

Environmental Factors and Conditions/Physical Requirements:

• Continually requires the ability to work under strenuous or adverse conditions for
• extended periods, while maintaining mental alertness and concentration to maintain work rate, quality, and safety.
• Continually requires moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.
• Continually requires the ability to express or receive detailed information or important instructions through oral communication.
• Continually requires working with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm. Requires repetitive movement of wrists, hands and/or fingers.  Often requires walking or moving about to accomplish tasks.
• Requires standing and/or sitting for sustained periods of time, raising objects from a lower to a higher position and/or moving objects horizontally.
• Occasionally requires lifting of up to 100 pounds.
• Frequently requires stooping which entails the use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Frequently requires bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• May be called upon to serve as a Disaster Reservist during Emergencies, or when the Tribal Emergency Operations Center is opened.
• Local travel is occasionally required. Travel outside of the state is infrequently required. 

Background Check:

Candidates for this position will be subject to criminal and character background checks and may be subject to fingerprinting.

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All positions are located in the greater Grand Ronde area unless specifically noted otherwise.

If you have questions or need more info, please call: 1-800-422-0232 x-2109

Application materials must be received in Human Resources by 5pm on the closing date.

INTERNAL APPLICANTS ARE DEFINED AS:

• Grand Ronde Tribal members
• Spouse of a Grand Ronde Tribal member
• Parent or legal guardian of Grand Ronde Tribal member children.
• Current Regular Employee, past their six-month introductory period, receiving at least a "meets expectations" on most recent performance evaluation and not under disciplinary action or performance improvement within the previous six months.

For individuals that meet the minimum qualifications: 

AN INTERVIEW WILL BE GIVEN IN THE FOLLOWING RANKING ORDER:

1. Grand Ronde Tribal members.
   a. (Qualified Grand Ronde Tribal members who show they meet the minimum qualifications of the position during the course of the interview process will be given first consideration for hire and the recruitment process will end)
2. Tribal member spouses, parents and/or legal guardians of Grand Ronde Tribal member children and current regular employees.