WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES TECHNICIAN SUPERVISOR

TS308 $38,168 - $68,682
Creation Date: 02/26/1999
Change Date: 01/01/2025

FUNCTION OF WORK:
Supervises staff in the development, research, and management activities on a Wildlife Management Area (WMA), Refuge, Fish Hatchery, Research Station, or a body of water.

LEVEL OF WORK:
Supervisor

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
General from a Biologist or higher-level Wildlife and Fisheries official.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
Direct over lower-level Wildlife and Fisheries Technicians and other lower-level staff.

JOB DISTINCTIONS:
Differs from Wildlife and Fisheries Technician C by the presence of direct line supervision of lower-level Wildlife and Fisheries Technicians or other lower-level staff.

CORE COMPETENCIES:
CORE COMPETENCIES HAVE NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED BY STATE CIVIL SERVICE FOR THIS JOB TITLE. MORE INFORMATION ON THE SCS COMPETENCY MODEL CAN BE FOUND HERE.

EXAMPLES OF WORK:
EXAMPLES BELOW ARE A BRIEF SAMPLE OF COMMON DUTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS JOB TITLE. NOT ALL POSSIBLE TASKS ARE INCLUDED.

Supervises the various developmental, managerial, and operational activities on Department properties, facilities, or water bodies.

Supervises and participates in the collection, preparation, and interpretation of biological data used for research projects for various fish, wildlife, and plant species.

Provides data and makes recommendations to Biologists for establishing management programs, setting harvest season dates, and species size limits.

Supervises and participates in necessary maintenance activities on Department properties, facilities, or water bodies, including all buildings, grounds, roads, levees, equipment, trapping camps, water control structures, hatchery ponds, lab facilities, etc.

Supervises and participates in wildlife and fisheries management and improvement activities, planting food plots, operating water control structures, conducting control burns, etc.

Supervises and participates in collection of fish and wildlife species for various life history research projects (age, growth, reproduction, population dynamics, etc.) utilizing a variety of capture methods (traps, toxicants, electro fishing, webbing, shooting, cannon netting, baiting, etc.)

Conducts various educational and public relation activities by conducting field trips and providing information on various fish and wildlife topics, regulations, activities, and programs.

Trains Wildlife and Fisheries Technicians and various trades personnel, including use, maintenance and calibration of scientific and technical equipment.

Supervises and conducts monitoring projects for various environmental parameters (water quality, level, temperature and salinity, air temperature, rainfall, wind speed and direction, etc.)

Makes recommendations concerning purchases of equipment, major repairs and development projects on Department properties, facilities, or water bodies.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Three years of experience in wildlife or fisheries management, research or conservation; forestry; land management; agriculture; commercial fishery; environmental science; or operation of heavy mobile equipment; OR

Ninety semester hours with eighteen hours in a biological, marine or environmental science, wildlife or fisheries management or research, agriculture, commercial fishery or forestry; OR

A bachelor’s degree in a biological, marine or environmental science, wildlife or fisheries management or research, agriculture, commercial fishery or forestry.