Field Technician

Government of Alberta

13d • CA$27 - CA$34 • Onsite

About The Position

The Field Technician role is a seasonal wage opportunity within Alberta’s Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance program. The CWD Field Technician distributes remote freezers to local vendors across Alberta and then collects heads of hunter-killed deer from the freezers. They then manage and deliver the heads to the lab for testing. This position will also require working a modified work week to accommodate weekend hunting. Challenges in this position include long periods of driving (at times in inclement weather), organizing, tracking, and delivering large numbers of heavy frozen incoming heads, and being efficient while responsive to unanticipated aspects of winter field activities.

Requirements

• High school diploma plus one year of related experience in conservation enforcement
• Experienced in winter driving, trailer towing, and operating large pickup trucks.
• 5-years Driver's Abstract with less than 3 demerits plus Class 5 Driver's license

Nice To Haves

• Winter driving experience, preference for defensive driving
• Experience using tow trailers and large pickup trucks
• Good physical condition and able to lift at least 50lbs
• Experience with hunting large game or working with large domestic animals in the agricultural industry

Responsibilities

• Delivering and setting up collection freezers at various vendor locations.
• Contacting road maintenance contractors.
• Distributing CWD program information.
• Collecting, verifying species, sex and age from collected samples.
• Providing initial field data record for all samples collected.
• Collecting samples from road killed deer.
• Timely head collection from freezers.
• Photocopying green CWD tags.
• Delivering tags and samples to testing labs (Edmonton, Airdrie, and Lethbridge).
• Retrieving, cleaning, and properly storing freezers.
• Completing inventory check list.

Benefits

• 11.6% in addition to regular wage earnings in lieu of paid holidays and vacation leave (5.6 percent of regular wage earnings instead of paid holidays, 6 percent of regular wage earnings instead of annual vacation pay)
• Professional learning and development.
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• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED