Pest Control Project Apprentice

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Job description

Do you love variety in your work environment and creative problem solving?

As a Project Apprentice with Sprague Pest Solutions, you will partner with clients to recognize and eliminate pest problems, protect their brand, customers, and employees, and deliver on Sprague's mission to create a world where people eat safer food, live and work in healthier environments.

Position Summary:

Directly supports project work in the Puget Sound region. Regional Project Apprentice will support primarily bird work, but will also assist with fumigations, wildlife trapping and exclusion. This position will require flexibility in schedule and ability to travel, to service locations throughout Western Washington.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work flexible schedule as required to meet client expectations, including weekend and night work
• Travel throughout the Puget Sound branch territories for work with occasional travel outside the region throughout Sprague territory (Overnight travel determined by location of work site)
• Obtain all licenses/certifications required below
• Learn skills of bird work, fumigations, and exclusion work
• Survey job sites; Price and propose solutions
• Install bird deterrent equipment and trap wildlife
• Perform container/structural fumigations
• Follow all job site safety requirements, including the proper usage and wear of PPE at all times
• Perform other duties as needed and directed by the Regional Project Manager

Salary: $25/hr, depending on experience and licenses, plus incentives

Travel: 15-20%

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Perks:

• Company vehicle: All technicians receive a take-home service vehicle and gas card; No commuting into the office to pick up your vehicle for the day.
• Flexible schedule: Excellent work-life balance lets you schedule work around your life passions and responsibilities.
• Clothing, boots, and PPE: Company-issued uniform and safety equipment, plus an annual boot allowance.

Generous Benefits:

• Health Insurance: Choose between 2 medical plans, both with Medical Spending Account options. Dental and Vision also available. Receive benefits within 1 month of employment. Create your own customized benefits package.
• 401K Plan: 4.5% matching if you contribute 6%. 100% matching up to 3% then 50% matching up to 6%.
• Vacation & Paid Time Off: Receive personal time from date of hire & vacation time after 90 days.
• Paid Holidays: Inclusive holiday policy with 8 holidays per year and flexible scheduling window. Choose which days you celebrate.
• Childcare: Flexible Spending Account to offset childcare costs
• Performance Bonuses: In addition to your hourly wages, we offer bonuses for product & service sales, quality & customer service incentives, team performance, unlimited referral, certification, and many more!

Training & Certification:

• On-boarding: Paid new employee on-boarding training with in-house technical team
• CEU: Continuing education credit seminars hosted multiple times per year
• ACE: Advanced Certified Entomology preparation courses offered multiple times per year. Get certified and receive a bonus!
• Leadership: Bonus eligible leadership development training program open to all employees.
• Mentorship: New employee mentorship programs.
• Scholarships: Sprague Scholarships for tuition assistance for any employee pursuing a traditional post-secondary, technical, or vocational school education.

.Requirements:

Qualifications and Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Installation of bird deterrent systems: Architectural bird netting, post & wire, shock track, bird spike and optical gel pucks
• Bird waste remediation
• Wildlife trapping and proper euthanizing practices
• Accurate and thorough completion of Sprague job documentation forms (bird survey form, wildlife trapping records, fumigation survey, fumigation plan)
• Precise measurement of building structures, identify various structural materials, and communicate information to Project Manager for proposal
• General knowledge of construction
• Able to perform general pest control services as a member of a regional team that supports Puget Sound branches
• Able to perform container fumigations and knowledge/skill to support team on larger structural fumigations
• Able to work under various job site safety requirements
• Adherence to subcontractor job site requirements (i.e. background checks, drug and alcohol screening)

All offers of employment are contingent upon a satisfactory motor vehicle record report that is checked annually.

Sprague Pest Solutions is an Equal Opportunity employer and promotes diversity through a culture of inclusion and opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. We are a drug and smoke-free environment.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Qualifications:

• Experience in physically demanding job
• Proposal writing experience preferred
• Bird work and fumigation experience a plus
• Construction background a plus
• Experience working from a boom lift
• Comfortable working at extreme heights
• Residence in Greater Seattle/Tacoma preferred

Education and/or Experience

• Stable job history with experience in a physically demanding job
• High school diploma or equivalent

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