Crew Lead - Riverscape Restoration

Our What

We transform rivers capes that were once degraded and vulnerable into healthy and thriving ecosystems through simple, cost-effective, low-tech process-based restoration actions that kickstart recovery and self-sustaining fluvial and ecological processes. Once these processes are set in motion, the footprint of the recovery spreads well beyond the footprint of the restoration actions.

At Anabranch Solutions, we aspire to a future where people hold deep respect for and engage in stewardship of rivers, enabling these vital ecosystems and their surrounding communities to reach their full potential.

We are currently seeking traveling restoration leads for our crews of stream restoration technicians! Restoration crews will be traveling in teams of 5-10 people building, and potentially monitoring, low-tech, process-based restoration (LTP ) structures. These structures will include Beaver Dam Analogs and Post-Assisted Log Structures. Restoration crews will spend their season outdoors; living and working in remote locations throughout the west.

Field life is rugged and rewarding. Crew members will be living in remote locations - often with limited amenities. Crews will meet at job sites or other pre-determined locations before each hitch, and should primarily expect to camp at each worksite during the hitch. However, Anabranch will provide travel trailers, short-term rental housing, or hotel stays when possible during on-hitch time, location dependent.

Accommodations are available during hitch, and typically dorm-style living with communal meal prep, shared kitchens, and shared sleeping quarters. Teams will travel often - generally moving to a new project site for each hitch.

Work schedules are typically eight day hitches of 10-hour shifts followed by six days off. Sometimes hitch schedules may be adjusted to four 10-hour shifts followed by three days off, or five 8-hour shifts followed by two days off when necessary. All necessary camping gear (other than sleeping bags) as well as all necessary safety gear, waders, and wading boots will be provided.

Additionally, per diem is afforded to the group for family-style grocery shopping and meal preparation.

Restoration lead daily responsibilities will include supervising 5-10 restoration technicians and planning of implementation including safety, training, accommodations, food, and travel. They will also be responsible for equipment upkeep, maintenance, and repairs, and implementing equipment and safety protocols for their crew of technicians. Leads work with each other, our project managers, and restoration planners to plan and coordinate logistics of each hitch and project as a whole.

Applicants can anticipate a breakdown of job duties in terms of time commitment similar to the following:

• 5-10% Training & continuing education
• 10-15% Equipment repair, maintenance, and management

Restoration crew job duties are to locally acquire natural building materials (e.g., brush, woody debris, & rock), stage said materials, and construct beaver dam analogs (BDAs), post-assisted log structures (PALS), and other low-tech structures for rivers cape restoration projects. Constructing BDAs and PALS entails cutting and hauling slash to degraded streams, constructing instream structures, and pounding posts via hydraulic post pounder to lock everything in place.

Construction utilizes a variety of tools, including but not limited to: hand tools, chainsaws, Grip Hoists, hydraulic post pounders, ATV/UTVs, trailers, and more.

• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to communicate clearly and regularly
• Ability and willingness to learn in the field, in trainings, and from supervisors
• Ability to work safely in remote and adverse conditions
• Conflict-resolution and problem solving skills
• Flexibility with ever-changing schedules
• Self-motivated with situational awareness to complete various tasks
• Comfort with manual labor and/or physical fitness
• Must be able to safely lift and carry 55 pounds; packing heavy loads of equipment into and out of sites is often required
• A valid driver’s license
• Eligibility to work in the United States

• Experience with LTP
• Experience in related maintenance, construction, monitoring or management activities such as conservation corps, fire-fighting, riparian planting, landscaping, trail maintenance or construction, forest thinning, arboriculture and/or logging
• Paid sick leave accrual
• Time-and-a-half pay for worked company holidays
• Employee discount programs
• SEP-IRA Retirement plan (after 3 years of employment)
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications and positions are open until filled.