Ais Technician

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 67405
Ministry: Environment and Protected Areas (CA09)
Location: Edmonton (Forestry Building)
Full or Part-Time: Full-Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Wage Seasonal Positions
Scope: Open Competition
Classification: Natural Resources 4

**Salary**: $24.44 to $30.17 hourly

**Wage Benefits**:

- Wage employees receive 11.2% in addition to regular wage earnings in lieu of benefits and vacation leave.
- 5.2 percent of regular wage earnings instead of paid holidays.
- 6 percent of regular wage earnings instead of annual vacation pay.

We support Albertans in being proud stewards of air, land, water, and biodiversity by leading the work required for the desired environmental outcomes and sustainable development of natural resources. We support environmental conservation and protection, sustainable economic prosperity and quality of life.

**Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Program**
Aquatic invasive species (AIS) threaten Alberta’s freshwater resources. The Alberta Government is invested in addressing AIS to minimize impacts through the Aquatic Invasive Species Program supported by five elements: 1) policy and legislation, 2) education and outreach, 3) monitoring of water bodies, 4) watercraft inspections and decontaminations and 5) response.

**Role Responsibilities**:
We have an exciting opportunity to support the AIS program during the 2025 field season. If you are comfortable speaking to people, can handle diverse field work under all weather conditions, and love working on protecting the environment, this may be the job for you

As an AIS Technician, you will be supporting Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) work in Alberta. This position will provide a supporting role on AIS response and outreach priorities; including flowering rush management around Lake Isle (a Minister and MLA priority), provincial response planning and execution on AIS occurrences, support approvals for response efforts, continue education/awareness engagement with the public, and support monitoring efforts.

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**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**Build Collaborative Environments**: Contribute to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve desired outcomes of the campaign. Proven ability to engage people, internally and externally, in conversations to achieve assigned tasks.

**Creative Problem-Solving**: Ability to assess options and implications for troubleshooting technical problems and to inform decisions regarding fieldwork.

**Agility**: Demonstrates ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities and effectively work in a changing environment. The ability to work on various fieldwork priorities, simultaneously, under variable environmental conditions is required.

**Drive for Results**: Must be self-motivated and highly organized to work on occasion without daily supervision and successfully deliver assigned tasks under the AIS program.

**Qualifications**:
**Required**:

- A completed high school diploma plus 12 months of related experience.
- A valid Class 5 Driver’s License (or equivalent).
- Current First Aid certification (CPR Level C).

Equivalences may be considered: Additional related education considered in lieu of experience on a one-for-one basis.

**Assets**
- Experience conducting field work.
- Experience with or demonstrated training in aquatic invasive species.
- Experience in communicating with stakeholders and the general public, verbally and in writing.
- Experience being in and around water bodies.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

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**Notes**:

- This competition is for various temporary wage positions located in Edmonton, Forestry Building, 6th Floor, 9920 108 Street.
- 36.25 hours per week. Overtime may be encountered on occasion.
- Length of employment is dependent upon operational needs, with a proposed timeline of May to Oct 31, 2025.

Please note that to work province wide and on various species, you will be required to work a flexible schedule that includes overnight travel, with some weekend work, potentially throughout the field season.

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