Biological Science Technician

This career/career-conditional seasonal permanent position is located in Shenandoah National Park (U.S. National Park Service) ), in the Division of Ranger Activities, Fire Management Branch.

The incumbent performs uncomplicated field and laboratory work in support of the parks vegetation and fire ecology programs and is associated with the supportive of professional work.

• Leads employees in the collection, inventory, processing, and reporting of data for one or several parks' vegetation and fire ecology programs.
• Establishes monitoring plots in a variety of vegetation/fuel types in accordance with established guidelines.
• Independently identifies grasses, herbs, shrubs, and trees to species and collects, organizes, manages, and ensures quality control of field data using standardized data collection procedures.
• Collects geospatial data, creates project maps, and navigates to locate predetermined field points and records field locations using currently approved devices.
• Enters natural resource field data into a computer using customized software. Routinely performs error checking, data entry, quality-control, and simple to complex statistical analyses.
• Manage data and quality control in the office using a computer including data input and analysis.
• May perform duties of prescribed fire operations, wildland fire assignments and/or additional projects if qualified and as needed.