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This position participates with government agencies on the remediation of contaminated sites in rivers and bays and natural resources damages activities associated with these sites within the Tribe’s Usual and Accustomed Fishing Area. This area includes, but it is not limited to, the greater Seattle area, the Lake Washington/Cedar River, the White/Puyallup River, and the Green River watersheds, located within the Puget Sound region. In addition, this position evaluates potential impacts of instream projects, fish passage projects, utility projects, and residential or commercial development on anadromous salmonids, other fishery/shellfish resources, and/or their habitat within the Tribe’s Usual and Accustomed Fishing Area. This position provides comments to and coordinates with other government agencies on these projects to protect fish and/or habitat and to ensure that applicable regulations are properly applied and implemented.
This position requires professional skills and abilities to protect surface and ground water resources collaboratively with a team of highly qualified scientists. Through its federally-reserved treaty rights, the Muckleshoot Tribe is a co-manager of salmon, steelhead, and other fisheries resources within the Tribe’s Usual and Accustomed Fishing Area, which includes the Lake Washington/Cedar River, the White/Puyallup River, and the Green/Duwamish River watersheds. This position evaluates potential impacts and strategies to minimize impacts of water management plans, water rights applications, stormwater management proposals, and residential, commercial, municipal, state, or federal projects on anadromous salmonids, other fishery/shellfish resources, and/or their habitat within these watersheds. This position also assists in negotiating and implementing existing agreements on water management regimes in these watersheds.
This position requires professional skills and abilities to protect surface and ground water quality collaboratively with a team of scientists within the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe’s Fisheries Division. Through its federally-reserved treaty rights, the Muckleshoot Tribe is a co-manager of anadromous salmonids, other fishery/shellfish resources, and/or their habitat within the Tribe’s Usual and Accustomed Fishing Area, which includes, but is not limited to, the Lake Washington/Cedar River, the White/Puyallup River, and the Green/Duwamish River watersheds, located in the Puget Sound region. Under general supervision, this position performs professional and technical work in environmental assessments, including implementation of sampling designs, development of methods and Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) measures, and data analysis across a variety of environments in order to make recommendations regarding the impacts of proposed actions on the Tribe’s Usual and Accustomed Fishing Area. Evaluates and provides recommendations to local governments and other agencies on surface water quality assessments, clean-up plans, and pollution reduction strategies.
This position supervises and coordinates the performance of professional, technical and administrative work of the Water Team within Fisheries and provides technical guidance and assistance on water quality assessment, clean-up plans, and water resources issues to the Fish Habitat Protection Assistant Director.
Under general supervision, this position will be responsible for engaging in selected salmon management and salmon habitat protection and restoration processes, to represent the Tribe’s priorities in habitat protection and restoration, salmon enhancement and management plans. This position will support other activities to improve and sustain harvestable salmon populations within the Tribe’s U&A.
This senior level position will lead a highly qualified technical team with expertise in fish habitat; habitat restoration; water quality; water management; and natural resources regulations applicable to proposed development projects. The fish and shellfish habitat that the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe relies on overlaps with the largest concentration of human population in Washington State, including the greater Seattle area. Maintaining and restoring fisheries habitat is challenging, but there are significant opportunities for large-scale improvements - cleaning up contaminated rivers and bays, significantly increasing the estuarine rearing habitat in developed areas, restoring access to miles of stream habitat, improving water quality, and removing impediments to the health and migration of both adult and juvenile salmon. The position will work closely with the Harvest Management and Fish Production Assistant Directors, and tribal officials who are intimately familiar with the challenges faced in the Tribe’s Usual and Accustomed Fishing Area. This area includes, but it is not limited to, the greater Seattle area, the Lake Washington/Cedar River, the White/Puyallup River, and the Green River watersheds, located within the Puget Sound region. This job is dynamic, interdisciplinary, and rewarding.