JOB SUMMARY: This position is located in a National Park Service Unit. The primary purpose of the position is to perform moderately heavy physical labor requiring the use of common hand tools and power equipment involving any or all of the following duties. MAJOR DUTIES: Provides laboring assistance to maintain buildings, grounds, roads, trails, etc. Operates equipment such lawn mowers, portable snow blowers, and all types of hand tools such as shovel, rake, lawn edging equipment, etc. Loads and unloads supplies and materials from trucks, trailers, dollies, etc. Moves furniture, removes an sets signs, paints picnic tables and signs, rakes and waters lawns, trims trees and shrubbery, picks up litter, cleans fire pits. Digs ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact and must grade or slope; occasionally breaks up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixes and pours concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; fills and level holes in damaged roads. Moves heavily loaded wheelbarrows and hand trucks; uses heavy type power mowers. Cuts trees with axe or chainsaw, stacks heavy logs, lumber and sacks of cement. Performs janitorial duties for buildings in the absence of janitor and as back-up support. Cut-off Dates: This is an open continuous announcement, in which applications are collected over several months, and have multiple cut-off dates. Applications will be considered throughout the open period of the announcement. INITIAL CUT OFF IS Friday, 13 December 2024 Referral certificates will be issued when a hiring official exhausts current certificate and/or additional vacancies need to be filled. For more information about the park or the position please contact: Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial - Point of Contact - Brian Harmon, brian_harmon@nps.gov, 218 283-6674 Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve - Point of Contact - Skip Willoughby, skip_willoughby@nps.gov, 620-273-6034x253 IMPORTANT: Click the 'Apply for this job' button to view a complete job description.
