Crew Supervisor; West Valley

Description

Position Summary
Reporting to the Program Coordinator [Manager or Director], the Crew Supervisor implements the mission of the LA Conservation Corps by using leadership, supervisory and technical skills to develop the educational and work skills of young people and enable them to advance their own educational, personal and career opportunities. The Crew Supervisor is responsible for the supervision, work project coordination, recruitment, education support, and other leadership responsibilities for a team of 3-10 program participants aged 18-24 years old.

The Crew Supervisor provides the closest personal contact with corps members in the work environment. It is their ability to relate, train and motivate that enables corps members to create stronger ties to their communities through community involvement and service, explore avenues for personal growth and development in a respectful and nurturing environment and develop leadership skills to contribute to the advancement of all people.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage, supervise, and participate in all aspects of crew work from trail construction and maintenance, tree planting, landscaping, park development and maintenance, and community beautification like litter abatement and recycling.
• Crew Supervisors work cooperatively with their crew and delegate responsibilities to crew members, maintain crew discipline, resolve conflicts, and establish/maintain crew morale.
• Crew Supervisors provide formal and informal feedback to Corps members with specific attention to work productivity and quality, teamwork, and leadership. Crew Supervisors receive feedback on their performance and are challenged to develop their own leadership skills within this program.

• Crew Supervisors effectively learn and apply new environmental conservation skills.
• Crew Supervisors lead, train, and supervise a team during work projects, which may include: general maintenance, graffiti removal, constructing and maintaining trails, constructing and maintaining fences and outdoor facilities, restoring wildlife habitat, maintaining public parks, campgrounds, and recreation areas, planting trees, conducting native plant revegetation, eradicating exotic/invasive plant species, surveying, conducting ecological testing and monitoring, mapping and monitoring using GPS technology, wildfire restoration, and restoring forest health and reducing wildfire risk through tree thinning using powered equipment.
• The Crew Supervisor arranges environmental education activities and opportunities and helps inspire the next generation of conservation and public lands stewards.

• Oversee the physical and emotional safety of Corps members at all times. Safety is the main priority in everything we do, including work, education, and recreation. This includes the physical safety of participants and their mental and emotional safety. Crew Supervisors will be responsible for transporting the crew and equipment to and from the worksite daily, safely in Corps fleet vehicles.

• Crew Supervisors are responsible for safely completing conservation projects to high standards by training, working with, and supervising crews of 5-12 participants 28-40 hours/week. They will serve as the principal liaison with project sponsors and members of the local community.
• The Crew Supervisor’s principal role, however, will be to manage and motivate their crew of youth. In the field, they will provide direction to their crew with specific attention to safe work practices, proper tool use, work quality, and productivity.
• Crew Supervisors are mentors and role models and set the pace and tone of the project site. This position is physically, emotionally, and mentally demanding. Leaders will lift heavy loads, walk long distances, and should expect to find each project physically challenging.

• Crew Supervisors are required to lead a variety of field trainings including chainsaw use and maintenance, brush cutter use, trail building and maintenance, invasive plant removal, and herbicide…