Riparian Landscape Technician I

San Antonio TX

Description

Description: The San Antonio River Authority seeks to hire a Riparian Landscape Technician to work along the beautiful San Antonio River and San Pedro Creek using their vegetative maintenance expertise, passion for the environment and out of the box thinking. Your type You look for an organization that is guided by core values like Integrity, Excellence, and Stewardship. You’re attracted to an organization that is made up of extremely passionate and purpose-oriented people. Your ideal organization is one that has a foundation built on trust and transparency. Engaging in meaningful work that responds to organizational and community needs while staying true to a mission that promotes improvement and protection of our natural environment is what you desire for your picture-perfect organization. While salary isn’t everything, you’d like to work for organization that offers a competitive compensation package with great benefits dedicated to optimizing a better you! You look for an organization that sees their people as their most valuable asset. Your ideal organization to work for is one that has a philosophy that focuses on investing in their people on both a professional and personal level. You admire an organization where everyone’s expertise and skill is valued and expectations for continuing to excel as an organization is shared by all. You work best in an organization which fosters an environment where you enjoy serving the public and your teammates collaborate and treat each other like family. As a family, we care and respect each other and have each other’s back. We also feel comfortable with being challenged and can engage in healthy debate like family. You find excitement in an organization that has a strong vision to inspire actions for healthy creeks and rivers and a purposeful mission committed to safe, clean, and enjoyable creeks and rivers. If this seems like your type, keep reading. Our type We are looking for someone passionate about the river. You would like to work in a place where the largest ecosystem restoration project in the country exists, the Mission Reach. This eight mile stretch of the San Antonio River has been transformed into a quality riparian woodland ecosystem. As a Riparian Landscape Technician, you will be involved in maintaining this world class project. You have experience in formal and/or restored native plant communities. You enjoy working outside, removing weeds, clearing brush, mowing, trimming, pruning, planting, seeding and irrigating public areas. You are knowledgeable on identifying both native and non-native vegetative species. You have a good understanding and experience with operating maintaining and repairing vegetative management equipment such as power tools, hand tools, mowers, weed eaters, irrigation systems, tractors, slope tractors and vehicles. You understand the importance of keeping the water quality at an acceptable range by removing litter and other debris from the river. As a member of this team you would continuously give back to the community by leading volunteer groups. You enjoy working extremely hard, but also like to play hard. Team building is a way to bring the group together for fun, comradery and a time to share ideas. You like working as a team. Our daily tasks cannot be completed by one person, which is why we foster a highly motivated team to work together on a daily basis to achieve a common goal. If this is you, keep reading. COMPENSATION: Salary range is $15.00 hr. (DOE) plus outstanding fringe benefits which includes excellent health/vision/dental insurance packages, 401a/457b retirement program, 12 vacations days per year, 11 paid holidays per year, etc. If you are truly looking for a great place to work and reading this job ad sparked your interest then we suggest you click here.