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Open: March 20, 2026 — Closes: April 2, 2026
Summary
This Utility Systems Repairer-Operator position is located in the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park in the Division of Facilities Management. The incumbent will install, maintain, monitor, and repair utility systems while ensuring safety and compliance. This is a permanent career seasonal appointment. For questions or additional information about this position, please contact hiring manager John-Luc Metz at John-Luc_Metz@nps.gov.
Major Duties
Major Duties: Maintain, test, troubleshoot, and repair various utility systems including electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and water distribution. Perform basic facility maintenance including laboring and custodial duties. Safely operate motorized vehicles and equipment to transport materials and equipment. Follow prescribed safety practices and use appropriate safety equipment to ensure a safe working environment while ensuring all operations comply with relevant regulations and policies. Physical Effort: Work assignments typically require moderately heavy physical effort to lift, carry, or otherwise handle items typically weighing up to 40 pounds. Duties require the incumbent to maneuver into and out of specific locations while dismantling and assembling utility related equipment. The incumbent makes repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding, and platforms where the parts of systems worked on are in hard-to-reach places. Frequent standing, walking, bending, crouching, reaching, and stooping is typical. Occasionally, climbing and work in high places may be required, as well as the use of hoists, holders, and pulleys when handling large equipment. Working Conditions: Work is both indoors and outdoors where the incumbent may be subject to prevailing weather conditions. The incumbent may be exposed to biological hazards or diseases while cleaning equipment or shoveling sludge, and hazardous gases such as methane, chlorine, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon monoxide. The incumbent may also be subject to electrical shock, loud noises, acids, and hydraulic fluids while working around motors and pumps. There is exposure to shock, burns, and strains. The incumbent follows prescribed safety practices and uses safety equipment such as face shields, gloves, hard-toe shoes, respirators, and protective clothing that may be uncomfortable to wear. The incumbent is required to attend and participate in safety meetings and training and review and follow safety regulations and policies prior to using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as goggles, rubber mats, gloves, hard hats and respirators as the jobs require. The incumbent may be required to operate motor vehicles and heavy engineering equipment. Area Information: Canyonlands National Park preserves a wilderness of rock at the heart of the Colorado Plateau. Water and gravity have been prime architects of this land, cutting flat layers of sedimentary rock into hundreds of canyons, mesas, buttes, fins, arches, and spires. At center stage are two canyons carved by the Green and Colorado Rivers. Based on the topography of these two canyons, Canyonlands is divided into three districts: Island in the Sky, the Needles, and the Maze. This position is located in the Needles District, and the closest towns are Monticello (50 miles away) and Moab (75 miles away). Government housing is available in the Needles District.