Maintenance Worker Trails Job at Messiah College in San Francisco

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Job Title: Maintenance Worker Trails

Locations: Tehama County, CA; Kings Canyon National Park, CA; Mammoth Lakes, CA; Paicines, CA; Point Reyes Station, CA; San Francisco, CA; Sequoia National Park, CA; Yosemite National Park, CA; Maui County, HI; Klamath County, OR; Cave Junction, OR; Carbonado, WA; Enumclaw, WA; Longmire, WA; Marblemount, WA; Packwood, WA; Port Angeles, WA; Stehekin, WA

Summary:

The typical seasonal entry-on-duty period is April through October but can be variable during these months due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding. Anticipated Entry on Duty: April - May 2025.
Open to the first 425 applicants or until 12/18/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

The duty stations for the parks are:

1. Pinnacle National Park: Paicines, CA
2. North Cascades National Park: Marblemount, WA and Stehekin, WA
3. Crater Lake National Park: Klamath County, OR
4. Lassen Volcanic National Park: Tehama County, CA
5. Golden Gate National Recreation Area: San Francisco, CA
6. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks: Tulare County CA
7. Haleakala National Park: Maui County, HI
8. Mount Rainier National Park: Longmire, WA, Packwood, WA, Enumclaw, WA, Carbonado, WA
9. Devils Postpile National Monument: Mono County CA
10. Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve: Josephine County OR
11. Point Reyes National Seashore: Marin County CA
12. Olympic National Park: Port Angeles WA
13. Yosemite National Park: Mariposa County CA

Responsibilities:

WG-05 Maintenance Worker (Trails) - performs trail maintenance, construction, and repair. Tasks include clearing trails of windfalls, limbs, rocks, landslides, and other debris; digging or cleaning culverts and ditches for drainage purposes; clearing brush; tread work on native soil, gravel and asphalt trails. Assist or lead trail crews on bridge building, tread, brushing, drainage and trail clearing projects. Construct or repair bridges, food boxes, ramps, corrals, outbuildings and pit toilets. Assist in or perform masonry work. Paint or stain boxes, corrals, pit toilets, and bridges. May assist in maintenance of historic structures. May assist Packer with preparing loads, as well as saddling and transporting stock. Service and repair chain saws, brushing saws, gas rock drills and breakers, and generators. Repair tents, hand tools, lanterns, stoves; sharpen axes, pulaskis, shovels and clippers. Responsible for inventory updates and issuance of trails equipment, parts and materials.

WG-07 Maintenance Worker (Trails) - provides daily guidance and direction to field crews completing trail maintenance/construction. Repairs trail tread and drainage structures, constructing rock walls, turnpiking, cribbing, and foot bridges, removing windfalls, felling trees, and utilizing block, tackle, and winches for moving and placing heavy objects. Construction and maintenance of rock and wood water bars, retaining walls and cribbing, and other trail structures. Laying out and constructing new trails in rocky, mountainous terrain, and in performing landscape restoration of abandoned trails.

Work Conditions: Work involves living and working in remote backcountry regions of the parks. Work involves long distance hiking, often with heavy backpacks, and long hours of hard physical labor to perform trail maintenance and construction tasks. Trail workers often carry loads weighing up to 50 pounds and may be required to hike up to 20 miles per day over steep and/or rough terrain.

Physical Effort: Heavy physical effort is required in bending, lifting, and using hand and power tools in trail work. Examples of typical strenuous activity include: Frequently lifts and carries objects weighing over 100 pounds, must carry and roll rocks and logs, move rocks of several tons with rock bars, use hammers to crush or shape rock, and use shovels extensively. Frequently hikes up to 20 miles daily and must be able to do so while carrying a backpack, power and/or hand tools.

Working Conditions: Incumbent must have the ability to live and work effectively in backcountry areas in close contact with small numbers of people for extended periods of time. Incumbent must live and work outdoors on projects in various terrain up to 13,000 feet elevation in all extremes of adverse weather conditions. Trail work is dusty, and hazardous conditions may exist when moving rocks and logs, working in and around rockslide areas, working around stock, working around explosives, falling and bucking trees, and working around machinery.

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