Biological Sciences Research Technician 1 - Limited Duration (Internal Employment Opportunity)

Department: Department of Integrative Biology

Special Instructions to Applicants:

This is an Internal Employment Opportunity.

When applying you will be required to attach the following electronic documents:

1) A resume/CV; and

2) A cover letter indicating how your qualifications and experience have prepared you for this position.

3) Upload your response to the supplemental questions in a separate document:

• Please share with us your experience with intertidal habitats and identifying intertidal organisms.
• Please tell us about how any past field experience has helped to prepare you for this position.
  

Starting salary will be commensurate with skills, education, and experience.

For additional information please contact: Leann de Souza at View email address on aiapply.co

Job Summary:

This is an Internal Employment Opportunity.

This recruitment will be used to fill one full-time, Biological Science Research Technician 1 position for the Department of Integrative Biology at Oregon State University (OSU). This is a limited duration appointment expected to last approximately 1 year from the appointment begin date.

This position will assist professors, technicians, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students in research on ecosystem dynamics of rocky intertidal communities along the US West Coast. Responsibilities include laboratory and intertidal field work. Field and lab work include: sample processing, data entry; making sample devices; maintaining field equipment; assisting with instrument calibrations, monitoring field experiments, and surveys of intertidal communities, biodiversity and abundance. Depending on tide schedules, this position requires working early mornings, long hours in the field, working on weekends, multiple overnight trips, and the ability to do technical hiking with a heavy load up to 50 lbs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintains and monitors current field experiments
• Identifies and surveys biodiverse intertidal species
• Processes samples collected from the field sites
• Assists with training and organizing of volunteers
• Sample collection, equipment calibration, and data entry
• Prepares fieldwork and fabricates field equipment
• Assists professors, post-docs, and graduate students with field research

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Two years of college-level courses in Marine Biology OR an equivalent combination of training and experience.
• A proven ability to be self-motivated and to work both in a team setting and independently.
• Previous fieldwork experience.
• Previous laboratory experience.

This position requires driving a university vehicle or a personal vehicle on behalf of the university; therefore, the incumbent must successfully complete a motor vehicle history check, possess and maintain a current, valid driver’s license in their state of residence, be determined to be position qualified and self-report convictions as per University Policy 05-030.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to self-direct and accomplish tasks without direct supervision.
• Strong communication skills.
• Previous tide pooling experience.
• Previous experience with Microsoft Office suite.
• Previous experience with data entry and quality control.

Working Conditions/Schedule:

The majority of work will be done in assigned lab space at OSU in the Department of
Integrative Biology, Corvallis, OR) and at various sites along the Oregon and Northern
California coasts.

Duties require periodic overnight stays at coast housing or camping during periods of
intensive sampling, weekend work, and working early morning hours. Activities will require
conducting strenuous fieldwork and hiking along rocky shores, carrying heavy equipment,
and maintaining safe research practices.

Lifting, carrying, pulling, and pushing backpack or field equipment up to 50 lbs.

This position requires traversing rough terrain and working in adverse weather conditions.

Typical fieldwork hours require this position to wake by 03:00 and work by 04:00 AM.

Duties require driving to and from coastal sites each day during fieldwork. Typical driving
times range from 1.5 - 4 hours per day, often in darkness.

Ability to wake and begin work early in the morning (i.e. 3:00am).

Salary Range:

$18.06 - $23.88

Anticipated Start Date:

2026-08-14

Anticipated End Date:

2027-08-31

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability, protected veteran, and other protected status.

OSU will conduct a review of the National Sex Offender Public website prior to hire.

OSU is a fair chance employer committed to inclusive hiring. We encourage applications from candidates who bring a wide range of lived experience including involvement with the justice system. If this position has “critical or security-sensitive” responsibilities and/or driving duties and you are selected as a finalist, your initial job offer will be contingent upon the results of a job-related pre-employment check (such as a background check, motor vehicle history check, sexual misconduct reference check, etc.). Background check results do not automatically disqualify a candidate. Take a look at our Background Checks website including the for candidates section for more details. If you have questions or concerns about the pre-employment check, please contact OSU’s Employee and Labor Relations team at View email address on aiapply.co .