Lykes Bros. Inc.
Environmental Services Coordinator
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JOB TITLE
Environmental Services Coordinator
DIVISION
Lykes Ranch located in Okeechobee, Florida
REPORTS TO
Senior Wildlife Biologist
FLSA STATUS
Hourly
LAST REVISED
Job Purpose
Perform functions to coordinate all aspects of the gopher tortoise recipient site program.
Essential Functions
- Responsible to acquire, learn and practice all LBI Safe Operating Procedures (SOPs) and comply with these standards as well as safety regulations pertinent to the department and job functions.
- Serve as main point of contact for issuing contracts and reservation letters to all new and existing gopher tortoise clients.
- Develop and maintain relationships with both new and existing clients. Find and follow up on leads for potential customers. Propose new strategies to generate revenue and manage costs.
- Coordinate gopher tortoise pick up, deliveries, receive and release tortoises.
- Manage data from all gopher tortoise deliveries and forecast sales targets. Invoice clients for tortoises received and manage accounts receivable.
- Monitor and manage recipient site soft-release enclosures.
- Manage technical field staff.
- Conduct GIS work and create maps as necessary.
- Coordinate various wildlife habitat management practices including, but not limited to, prescribing burning, mowing, chopping, and restoration activities.
Other Duties
- Become an expert on the FWC’s Gopher Tortoise Relocation Program.
- Perform or assist with operations, as required to maintain workflow and to meet schedules and quality requirements.
- Participate in a variety of meetings and work groups to integrate activities, communicate issues, obtain approvals, resolve problems, and maintain specified level of knowledge pertaining to new developments, requirements, and policies.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
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Qualifications
Certificates, licenses, and registrations:
- Valid driver’s license with insurability.
- Have or obtain Gopher Tortoise Agent License within 6 months of hire.
Knowledge/Skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build lasting business relationships.
- Excellent listening skills to ensure both internal and external customers’ needs are fully understood.
- Time management skills to prioritize and follow up with customers effectively.
- Represent Lykes with professionalism and courtesy.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Access and Excel, and other specialty software.
- Excellent written, verbal, and communication skills.
- Knowledge of GIS mapping systems preferred.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Maintain open and positive communications with team members and supervisors.
Education/Experience
- Degree in Natural Resource management, Environmental Science, or similar field preferred.
- Customer service, business management, and sales skills required.
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Physical Demands & Work Environment
- Regularly required to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time. The individual must be able to effectively communicate and hear.
- Will be occasionally required to reach above shoulder level, step up on a small ladder or stool, walk on uneven surfaces, stoop, and kneel.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance and peripheral vision.
- Will occasionally require to lift up to 50 pounds.
Email Your Application
Email Your Application along with your Cover Letter and/or Resume to kim.rankin@lykes.com.
The characteristics described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Management has the right to assign or reassign the description to this job at any time.
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400 N. Ashley Drive
Suite 2500
Tampa, FL 33602
813-470-5000
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