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Salary: $66,996.80 - $87,089.60 Annually
Location : 9512 RN 620 North (Balcones Canyon Lands Preserve), Austin, TX
Job Type: Full Time
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Job Number: 26-10690
Department: TNR (Trans & Natrl Resrc)
Opening Date: 05/28/2026
Closing Date: 6/5/2026 11:59 PM Central
Job Summary
The Travis County Transportation and Natural Resources department is looking for a well-organized and focused individual who can supervise Natural Resources Specialists and seasonal technicians conducting wildlife management, land management, and maintenance activities on the Balcones Canyonland Preserve (BCP) and other Travis County managed lands.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:
This is a job classification within the Professional Support job family. Incumbents use judgment to resolve complex issues involved with research projects. This classification may require a flexible work schedule in order to meet the needs of the department.
Duties and Responsibilities
Primary duties include:
• Supervising staff responsible for wildlife management activities
• Supervising and train seasonal technicians who support biological monitoring
• Maintaining preserve infrastructure including facilities, fences, roads, trails, and equipment.
• Conducting habitat enhancement projects.
• Coordinating and reviewing the work of contractors.
• Implementing nuisance species control
• Conducting rare species monitoring
• Reviewing issues that may negatively impact Travis County managed land and coordinating mitigation efforts.
The position supervises full-time and seasonal technicians who support land management, maintenance, and biological monitoring activities on the BCP.
This position has a hybrid work environment, combining office, teleworking, and various field locations.
Minimum Requirements
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Natural Resources, Environmental Science, Ecology, Biology or a directly related field AND three (3) years experience in natural resources management, land management or field biology, including project management and program development, and one (1) year of supervisory or management experience.
OR,
Any combination of education and experience that has been achieved and is equivalent to the stated education and experience and required knowledge, skills, and abilities sufficient to successfully perform the duties and responsibilities of this job.
Licenses, Registrations, Certifications, or Special Requirements:
Valid Texas Driver's License.
Depending on assigned duties, may require International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Arborist Certification, International Erosion Control Association (IECA) Erosion Control Specialist Certification, or Pest Control License.
Preferred Qualifications:
S130/190 Wildland Firefighter Certification
Texas Pesticide Applicator License
ArcPro Experience
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of:

• Conducting investigations, including data collection, analyzing, interpreting and writing a report of results.
• Conducting sampling.
• Standard theory, principles, practices, and techniques of conservation- based land management.
• Federal, State, Local and County applicable environmental laws, rules, regulations and guidelines. Management and supervisory principles, practices and techniques.
• Local ecological systems and conditions.
• Fiscal policies, budget programming and budget tracking.
• Grant writing, project management, and environmental specifications.
• Computer equipment to include word processing, spreadsheets, databases, ArcView Geographic Information System (GIS) hardware and software, and related applications.
• Business letter writing, grammar and punctuation, and report preparation.

Skill in:

• Using ArcView Geographic Information System (GIS).
• Using biological monitoring and censusing, and wildlife control equipment.
• Supervisory principles, practices and techniques. Explaining complicated technical problems in simple non-technical language.
• Problem-solving and decision-making.
• Both verbal and written communication.

Ability to:

• Manage time well, perform and prioritize multiple tasks, organize diverse activities, and implement environmental research and projects.
• Meet deadlines and produce projects in a timely manner while working on several projects at once.
• Develop and implement new and innovative ideas for managing natural resources.
• Managing data in geo-databases.
• Manage, plan, assign, supervise, motivate, train, evaluate and supervise professional and administrative support staff. Provide management and team building.
• Work as a team member within a diverse organization.
• Exercise diplomacy and avoid bias in handling controversial issues.
• Research, compile, analyze, interpret and prepare a variety of memorandums or reports.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with County employees and officials, representatives of outside agencies, and the general public.

Work Environment & Other Information
Physical requirements the ability to lift/carry up to 20-50 pounds occasionally, visual acuity, speech and hearing, hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer and office equipment. Subject to driving a 4-wheel drive vehicle, standing, walking/hiking (some rough terrain), carrying, sitting, repetitive motion, reaching, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, pushing, pulling, balancing, client/customer contact, squatting to perform the essential functions. May work in extreme temperature/weather change/conditions, and smoke on prescribed or wild fires. Maybe subject to contact with dangerous machinery, fumes, communicable/infectious disease, and hazardous chemicals.
Travis County employees play an important role in business continuity. As such, employees can be assigned to business continuity efforts outside of normal job functions.
This job description is intended to be generic in nature. It is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. The essential duties, functions and responsibilities and overtime eligibility may vary based on the specific tasks assigned to the position.
Work Hours: Monday - Friday 8 am - 5 pm
Department: TNR (Transportation & Natural Resources)
Location: 9512 N FM 620, Austin, TX 78726, USA
Criminal, Driving, Education, and Employment Background Checks Required.
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Benefits
Employment at Travis County comes with a full array of benefits. We offer comprehensive health insurance, a no-cost, on-site Health and Wellness clinic, longevity pay, paid vacations, sick time and personal holidays, not to mention an industry competitive salary structure and a friendly, stable work environment.
FY2026 Travis County Benefit Guide
In this valuable you will find benefit summaries, eligibility requirements, costs, contact numbers and addresses as well as other general information on the benefits available to Travis County Employees and Retirees.
Credit Union
Employees may join the Travis County Credit Union which offers low-interest loans, savings plans through payroll deduction, safe deposit boxes and other benefits.
Deferred Compensation
Employees may enroll in a tax- free sheltered investment plan through payroll deduction.
Direct Deposit
Employees may sign up for direct bank deposit.
Employee Assistance Program
Travis County provides a confidential counseling and referral service free of charge to county employees and their family.
Employee Organizations
Membership in the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Union is available through payroll deduction.
Employee Health & Wellness Clinic
Employees may access the clinic for a variety of wellness program and health care services with no co-pay, no deductible and no co-insurance costs.
Holidays
An average of eleven paid holidays are designated by the Travis County Commissioners Court at the beginning of each fiscal year.
Insurance
Employees may select from four plans: an Exclusive Physician Organization (EPO), Choice Plus Preferred Physician Organization (PPO), Consumer Choice or a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) with a Health Savings Account (HSA). All four options include a Pharmacy Plan. Travis County's current policy is to pay 100% of the employee's health insurance premium for the Consumer Choice and HDHP. Employees will pay a premium for both the EPO and PPO. Other insurance benefits include $50,000 Basic Life and AD&D paid by the County.
The following benefits are employee paid:

• Dental
• Vision
• Supplemental Life, AD&D
• Dependent Life
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• Long Term Care

New employees are covered on the first day of the month following 28 calendar days of employment.
Longevity
Longevity pay is paid for each year completed after three years of continuous service. Peace Officers in a law enforcement activity, whose job requires state peace officer certification, receive pay after one year of certification.
On the regular payday on or after the employee's fourth and subsequent adjusted service dates, he or she receives a single payment for the previous year.
Parking
A limited number of assigned parking spaces are available to employees in the Courthouse Complex.
Personal Holidays
Regular, full-time employees are eligible for up to three paid personal holidays each calendar year. Part-time employees shall be granted personal holidays on a prorated basis. New employees earn personal holidays for the calendar year in which he/she begins employment, based on the month in which employment begins:
January - March
3 personal holidays
April - June
2 personal holidays
July - September
1 personal holiday
October - December
None
New employees are eligible to take personal holidays after 90 days of employment.
Retirement
Travis County is a member of the Texas County & District Retirement System with mandatory participation by certain classes of employees. Seven percent (7%) of the gross salary is deducted each pay period. An employee is fully vested after eight years of service. Benefits are prorated for part-time employees.
Sick Leave
Regular employees earn sick leave at a rate of eight hours per month with unlimited accrual during employment. Part-time employees earn sick leave on a pro-rated basis.
Parental Leave
Each Full-time Paid Parental Leave Eligible (PPL) Employee is entitled to a total of 320 hours of Paid Parental Leave in a 12 month period. Paid Parental Leave for Part-time PPL Eligible Employees is prorated based on the number of hours that they are regularly scheduled to work.
Tuition Refund
Certain classes of full-time employees may receive reimbursement for fees associated with pre-approved, job related course work completed satisfactorily.
Vacation
Based on years of county service, regular, full-time employees earn vacation time at the following rates:
0 to 5 years
4.0 hours per pay period
6 to 10 years
4.5 hours per pay period
11 to 15 years
5.0 hours per pay period
16 to 20 years
5.5 hours per pay period
21 plus years
6.0 hours per pay period
Part-time employees earn vacation leave on a pro-rated basis.
Workers' Compensation
The county provides all employees workers' compensation coverage with benefits in accordance with state statute, if the employee sustains an injury out of, or in the course of work.
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