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To be successful in this position, you will need:
- Bachelor's degree and three years related, demonstrated boating/diving experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience
In addition, our preferred requirements include:
- Analytical skills to analyze and track complex space, and equipment.
- Interpersonal skills, mature judgment required to interact effectively with a broad range of people, including faculty, students, and vendors.
- Ability to coordinate and manage multiple projects with competing priorities, meet deadlines and project plans with short- and long-term end dates.
- Working knowledge of applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project.
- Experience working with internal and external vendors and services contracting.
- Background knowledge of safe handling and disposal of chemicals and hazardous waste; emergency preparedness plans and their implementation.
- Significant experience overseeing vessel, diving, and safety operations in a professional capacity.
- Working knowledge of principles, practices, and techniques in the field of vessel operations, scientific diving, and ocean safety as demonstrated by broad knowledge of the full range of pertinent standard and evolving concepts, principles, and methodologies
- Working knowledge and understanding of applicable federal and state laws, rules, regulations, and theories and systems associated with boat operations, scientific diving, and ocean safety
- Significant experience evaluating, testing, maintaining, and repairing scuba equipment, vessel parts, boating trailers, and general machinery, as well as other related diving and boating equipment
- General knowledge of USCG and California State (DMV and boating) regulations as they apply to boat and trailer operation, registration, and safety equipment
- Skills in operation and maintenance of boats (inboard and outboard powered craft).
- Experience and ability to drive and successfully maneuver large pick-up trucks, boat trailers and boats up to 25’ long and up to 10,000lbs in weight
- Ability to dive and carry out supervision in the water of our research programs with faculty, students, and staff.
- Ability to operate
Certifications and Licenses:
- Must possess a valid license to drive in the State of California.
- Current scuba instructor with nationally recognized training agency, or ability to obtain and maintain
- Current DAN (Divers Alert Network) Diving First Aid for Professional Divers instructor, or ability to obtain and maintain
- AAUS certified scientific diver, or ability to obtain and maintain.
- CA Safe Boating certification, or ability to obtain and maintain.
- MOTC/MOCC Instructor certification, or ability to obtain and maintain
- Certified Scuba diving repair technician, preferred
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Requires 24-hour response availability seven days per week for emergency situations.
- May be exposed to noise > 80dB TWA.
- May be working at heights 4 - 10 ft.
- May need to drive at night
WORK STANDARDS:
- Must comply with the California Vehicle Code and Stanford University requirements when operating university-owned vehicles.
- Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
- Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
- Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS*:
- Frequently stand/walk, seated, performs desk-based computer tasks.
- Physical fitness to frequently dive and swim
- Frequently operates heavy equipment using foot and hand controls to drive large vehicles (such as trucks, boats, and trailers)
- Frequently climb (ladders, scaffolds, or other), twist/bend/stoop/squat, reach/work above shoulders, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, use a telephone, writing by hand, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 70 pounds
- Frequently, kneel/crawl, grasp forcefully, sort/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh >70 pounds.
* - Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job.
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