Watershed Restoration Group (WRG) is hiring a Project Manager.

Visit our website at www.watershed-restoration.com for an overview of our company and services. Position will be open until filled.

As Project Manager with WRG, at a minimum, you would take on logistics and prepare for specific projects; be on-site during projects to coordinate with our clients; document as necessary; provide facilitation of our implementation crews; oversee quality assurance; and labor like the rest of us! You must be able to travel away from home for extended periods of time.

This is a non-traditional position in that we are looking to hire a permanent, but seasonal, employee. Expect to work extensive hours in the spring and fall months. As the position develops there will be increased opportunities for hours in the summer and winter off-seasons. We are a small company, and therefore, are looking for someone that can eventually, over time, fill a diversity of possible roles beyond field work – assisting with maintenance, marketing, administration, research, cost estimating, business development, or other possibilities that the successful applicant may have to develop with us.

There are a myriad of possible backgrounds and experience levels that the right person could have. You might be a restoration practitioner, an ecologist, a budding botanist, a construction manager, a management-minded laborer, or a proficient generalist. Applicants might be schooled in Restoration Ecology, Land or Watershed Management, or one of the Ecosystem/Forestry/Earth/Hydrologic Sciences; or, instead, might have passed on a formal education but have hands-on experience in the field. An ideal candidate would have both.

Experience in land-based restoration, familiarity with native plants of the intermountain west, a labor background, and proven management skills are preferred. However, again, the right person could be looking for a shift in their career or beginning their career. But you must, at a minimum, be physically capable, have astute leadership potential, strong communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills, and the enthusiasm to join our team. Please don’t apply if you’re just looking for job – have a desire for this job!

Applicants could have an array of other skills to offer, or the initiative to quickly learn them:

• Specialty areas of expertise or interest that the company could help develop
• Native plant and invasive weed identification
• Land management prescriptions
• Ability to operate skidsteers, mini excavators, augers, chainsaws, and other small power equipment
• Fencing or construction experience
• Ability to perform maintenance – vehicles, equipment, tool cache
• Skilled working in Excel – potential for cost estimating or bookkeeping
• Good technical writing skills – potential for proposal writing
• Aptitude for administrative support
• First responder training

Because we are willing to consider a range of experience levels, and a variety of options of what this position might grow into, wage will be determined reflecting this range. Please know, however, we believe in a very fair living wage.

We have high retention in our crews because we do pay well, along with being mutually respectful, quality oriented, flexible, and demanding but fair. This is a good gig – a great opportunity for the right person!