Palos Conservation Corps Crew Manager

Reports to: Associate Director of Conservation Corps

Start date: ASAP

Pay rate: $28.34/hour

Schedule: Full time, 36 hours per week

• Typically 9 hours/day
• 6:00 am to 3:30 pm, Monday-Thursday. Schedule changes regularly, based on season, weather, and other requirements. Friday and Saturday work is sometimes required.

Mission: We unite people to protect, promote, and care for the forest preserves in Cook County.

• →Manage and supervise 5-member crew to work on variety of indoor and outdoor conservation projects in Forest Preserves of Cook County
• →Work independently to fulfill restoration work orders and project responsibilities, including, but not limited to, year-round field work, supplies procurement, tool and vehicle maintenance, scouting, walkthroughs, and follow up treatment
• →Train and lead crews for field work, herbicide application, prescribed burning, and mechanical control of invasive species using motorized equipment (brush cutters, chainsaws, mowers) and hand tools
• →Assist with educating crew in ecological restoration and local ecology concepts
• →Develop weekly crew schedule, training, and reporting
• →Evaluate and document crew work activities and performance through compiling weekly work log data, taking and uploading crew photos, and assisting with writing quarterly and annual work progress reports
• →Interview, screen, hire, and onboard all new crew members 

• 21 years or older with clean driving record
• At least 3 years practical experience working with crews to conduct habitat
• restoration
• Excellent working knowledge of restoration best practices and plant identification
• Strong commitment to creating a culture of safety, teamwork, and learning
• Current Illinois Herbicide Applicator license or ability to secure one within 45 days
• of hire
• Current Basic First Aid and Adult CPR certifications
• Excellent leadership, communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to create an inclusive working environment for a diversity of team members
• and partners
• Ability to lift and move heavy objects (50 lbs.) and work outside in inclement
• weather and extreme temperatures
• Comfortable driving an extended-bed heavy duty F250 truck (training provided)
• Flexibility for schedule changes due to trainings, burn season, and weather 

• Experience with technical report writing
• Staff management/supervisory experience
• Experience teaching in classroom and/or field setting a plus
• 300 hours of chainsaw experience, 100 hours of brush cutter experience, 570 hours of herbicide experience
• Experience using GPS Units
• S290 certification and Burn Boss certification
• Experience with team leadership