Hatchery Care & Fish Production — Student Worker

DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE; Port Orford (OR); On-site; USD 42,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

11 paid holidays

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Department of Fish and Wildlife seeks a Hatchery Laborer (Laborer/Student Worker) for the Elk River Hatchery in Port Orford, Oregon. You will support fish culture activities to meet production goals and help maintain facilities and equipment.

The position runs as a temporary assignment through January 31, 2027, with potential adjustments based on project needs and funding. Applicants with relevant fish, hatchery, and maintenance experience are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Experience with fish or hatcheries.
• Experience with landscaping and grounds maintenance.
• Experience operating electronic or mechanical equipment.
• Maintenance and repair experience.
• Experience interacting with the public.

Responsibilities

• Assist technicians with periodic sampling and feeding fish.
• Move and handle fish to mark, load, transfer, or release.
• Collect adults: ready spawning area and equipment, and have necessary material and supplies on hand.
• Assist technicians with brood stock to determine sex, maturity, ripeness, and health.
• Assist technicians with spawning adults by anesthetizing, taking eggs and sperm.
• Move adults as needed.
• Shock, pick, clean up, treat and inventory eggs.
• Remove egg shells and record mortalities.
• Maintain hatchery water systems by cleaning debris from screens using small hand tools.
• Maintain hatchery rearing and incubation environments by cleaning and assisting technicians in minor repairs.
• Operate special equipment including utility vehicles, lawn tractors, gas and electric power tools, pressure washer, and farm tractor with attachments.
• Use and maintain pond cleaning implements and mortality pickers, crowders, dipnets, egg and fry care tools and devices.
• Set up, maintain, and periodically clean rearing containers.

Skills

Fish hatchery experience

Landscaping and grounds maintenance

Operating electronic/mechanical equip

Maintenance and repair experience

Public interaction experience

Job description

Department of Fish and Wildlife seeks a Hatchery Laborer (Laborer/Student Worker) for the Elk River Hatchery in Port Orford, Oregon. You will support fish culture activities to meet production goals and help maintain facilities and equipment.

The position runs as a temporary assignment through January 31, 2027, with potential adjustments based on project needs and funding. Applicants with relevant fish, hatchery, and maintenance experience are encouraged to apply.