Fish Hatchery Specialist - Voights Creek Hatchery

Classification:
Fish Hatchery Specialist 4

Job Status:
Full-Time/Permanent. WDFW Program:
Fish Program – Hatcheries Division. Duty Station:
Voights Creek Hatchery – Orting, Washington – Pierce County. Housing:
Housing is available. Standby:
Standby is assigned.

Embrace this role to manage and supervise two facilities, Voights Creek and Puyallup.

As a leader, you will support staff by setting clear goals, fostering professional growth, and promoting safe and efficient performance.

With sustainability and conservation in mind, you will provide sustainable fishing opportunities for residents as well as commercial and tribal interests in the South Puget Sound area.

Among the varied range of responsibilities held within this role, this position will:

• Carries out personnel actions, e.g.: recruitment, hire recommendations, evaluations, corrective actions.
• Ensure that expectations are adhered to.
• Coordinates operations of assigned facilities.
• Responds to workload demands by coordinating staffing across hatchery facilities. Ensures that workload demands are met within their assigned facility as well as other facilities within their region through coordination between the supervisors of those facilities.
• Develop work plans.
• Ensures safety compliance and safety training coordination.
• Serves as a leader/role model for other staff.

• Meets with fish health specialist to ensure production quality.
• Communicates with hatchery staff the emerging fish health issues.
• Develops with fish health staff and hatchery staff proactive approaches to ensure best fish health possible.
• Ensures that policies and/or guidelines such as HEAT, HGMP, and HSRG are followed.
• Communicates with inter‑agency programs and external entities such as Tribal co‑managers, Local Co‑Operators, NOAA, USFWS.
• Reviews and interprets the Future Brood Document (FBD).
• Identifies and communicates changes needed in Future Brood Document, concerning the decision‑making for the planning, and raising of future stock, to the Operation Manager; completes all paperwork for any changes to Future Brood Document. Manages all activities related to the annual fish rearing and release plan for the hatchery.

• Develop budgets and spending plans which identify routine and future financial needs of facility, program and agency.
• Responsible for accurate and timely expenditure tracking.
• Independently adjusts spending patterns to meet allotments and changing needs.
• Communicates budget status and needs to staff and supervisor.

• Trains and ensures staff compliance with policy, procedure, laws, rules, regulations, i.e. HSRG, HGMP, DOE, L&I, SARA Title 2, DOT, Co‑Managers, NOAA, USFW as it pertains to facility production and operation.
• As the ranking on‑site Agency employee, responsible for resolving issues and problems as they arise. Communicates and coordinates with agency personnel and outside entities as needed to resolve issues.
• Responsible for ensuring facility upkeep and maintenance. Communicates with agency personnel, or contacts contractors to coordinate repairs or improvements. When possible, repair and maintain or directs staff to repair or maintain facility infrastructure or equipment.
• Prioritizes and coordinates implementation of upgrade/repair and communicates to C.M. or other agency personnel.

• Coordinates and communicates as agency lead with constituent groups and volunteers and State, local, federal, Tribal entities to achieve agency mission (e.g. artificial production and nutrient enhancement).
• Represents agency policy when speaking in public forums and to constituent requests. Performs work previously performed by the COESS classification since it has been abolished.
• Represents the agency professionally and communicates effectively on potentially sensitive policy issues to influence decision making of internal or external entities.
• Communicates to staff how facility programs help the agency to achieve its mission.
• Responds to information requests from agency staff or external entities regarding facility production or other relevant…