Grundy Workforce Job Board Services: Submission #3291

Job Description Field Technicians will assist V3 staff ecologists with a variety of field management activities for projects around the greater Chicagoland area. Responsibilities will include:

▪ Conducting invasive species control (mechanical and chemical methods) and wetland plant installation.
▪ Obtaining an herbicide operator’s license issued by the State of Illinois.
▪ Spending 100% of the time in the field at various project locations as assigned.
▪ Working in vegetative communities such as prairies, wetlands, sedge meadows, woodlands, and naturalized basins.
▪ Learning plant identification, plant ecology and invasive species control methods.
▪ Other responsibilities may include irrigation, tree and shrub installation, select tree removal, and erosion control blanket installation.

Technicians will be scheduled on various project sites, possibly on a daily basis, throughout the season. Project sites are located throughout the greater Chicagoland area.