Title:  Resource Management Technician

Summary/Objective

Provide assistance in wildlife management activities.

Essential Job Duties

• Perform assigned duties associated with habitat and other wildlife management, including prescribed burns, eradication efforts, maintenance and cleaning.
• Monitor general supply, timber and fire suppression inventory, maintenance and administration. 
• Oversee maintenance on assigned work areas, roads, public areas and equipment.
• Conduct wildfire detection, pre-suppression, and suppression duties.
• Educate the public on natural resource management objectives through surveys, site visits, etc. 
• Prepare and present reports.
• Administrative duties, such as rentals, bid management, activity reporting and invoice processing.
• Perform mowing, lawn maintenance, debris removal and cleaning in public areas.
• Oversees and implements the manipulation of cropland, grassland, old field, forest, woodland, glade, savanna, and wetland.
• Conduct prescribed burns under the supervision of qualified burn boss.
• Participate in invasive plant control, herbicide application, manipulating water levels, and chainsaw work.
• Operate equipment necessary to conduct area management, and maintenance including UTVs ATVs tractors, skid steers, and farm implements such as, disks, mowers, planters, drills, ( native grass, grain), cultivators, sprayers, and fertilizer spreaders.
• Maintain area public use facilities, trails, field roads, and area and boundary signing.
• Carries out routine vehicle and farm equipment maintenance and repairs.
• Monitors public use and wildlife use on the area, and assists the public, especially during the hunting seasons, managed hunts, and special events.
• Supervise hourly employees in the performance of the above activities.
• Conducts wildlife surveys, other monitoring and evaluations projects, and documents habitat management acres and accomplishments. 
• Works closely with other district, region, and Division personnel to implement priority conservation work within assigned districts.
• Maintain a daily log of work activities, and prepares monthly narratives, timesheets, expense accounts, purchasing logs.

Ancillary Job Duties

• Other duties, as assigned.

Education and Experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Work Environment

Physical Abilities

Disclaimer

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; an employee will also perform other reasonably related job responsibilities as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required.  The Missouri Department of Conservation reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises.  This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.  Management reserves the right to change job descriptions, job duties, functions, and requirements.