Lab Manager Peery

The lab manager will lead the field operations associated with a multi-million-dollar (annually) barred owl removal and research program on the north coast of California including supervising and coordinating with 7 staff. The lab manager must have prior certification and extensive experience in barred owl removals as they will be responsible for performing barred owl surveys and removals as well as managing staff performing these duties. They will be responsible for training and supervising crew members coordinating field schedules entering data procuring and maintaining housing vehicles and equipment and coordinating with our genetics team and collaborators to transport samples. They will also be responsible for communicating with project partners and stakeholders to make sure objectives are met and timely informal updates are made. The lab manager will also coordinate with landowners to access properties prepare project reports and present results more formally to funders. The lab manager will also publish peer reviewed papers on barred owl ecology and management.

• Identifies proposes and implements new or revised unit operational policies and procedures in alignment with strategic initiatives and objectives.

• Serves as the unit liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups providing information making recommendations to leadership and representing the interests of the unit.

• Directs and supervises the day-to-day laboratory operations quality control programs and/or staff of a work unit to ensure compliance with organization and regulatory agency standards.

• Monitors program budgets and expenditures.

• May exercise supervisory authority including hiring transferring suspending promoting managing conduct and performance discharging assigning rewarding disciplining and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 FTE or equivalent employees.

• Develops and facilitates trainings regarding scientific experimentation technical procedures and equipment operations to various audiences.

• Prepares project reports and presents results to funders.

• Collaborates on research with other lab staff and graduate students.

• Performs barred owl surveys and removals following strict protocol.

• Develops and facilitates trainings regarding scientific experimentation technical procedures and equipment operations to various audiences

• Identifies proposes and implements new or revised unit operational policies and procedures in alignment with strategic initiatives and objectives

• May exercise supervisory authority including hiring transferring suspending promoting managing conduct and performance discharging assigning rewarding disciplining and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 FTE or equivalent employees

• Directs and supervises the day-to-day laboratory operations quality control programs and/or staff of a work unit to ensure compliance with organization and regulatory agency standards

• Collaborates on research with other lab staff and graduate students.

• Serves as the unit liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups providing information making recommendations to leadership and representing the interests of the unit

• Monitors program budgets and expenditures

• Prepares project reports and presents results to funders.

• Performs barred owl surveys and removals following strict protocol.

Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology

$80000 to $95000

• Demonstrated experience conducting barred owl removals as well as spotted owl field work.

• Supervisory experience including training scheduling risk-management and managing project based field crews in remote or logistically complex settings across multiple field seasons.

• Demonstrated research expertise in this field including peer-reviewed publications in barred owl management.

• Demonstrated experience managing multi-million-dollar grants including budgets staffing and reporting.

• Experience conducting and managing fieldwork in northern coastal California or similar ecosystems at all times of day including at night.

• Experience using autonomous recording units (ARUs) in the field to record deploy collect and analyze ambient audio; e.g. bird wildlife.

• Valid drivers license that meets UWs institutional requirements for operating vehicles.
• Certification conducting barred owl removals.

Bachelors degree required or Masters preferred in Wildlife Ecology or related degree .

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