JOB SUMMARY: This position is located in Isle Royal National Park. 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 duties listed below. 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 and 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. BOAT OPERATION: This position requires the operation of small boating vessels and completion of the Motorboat Operation Certification Course. GOVERNMENT HOUSING: Isle Royale National Park is on a remote island in Lake Superior. Employees live in dormitory-style housing with co-workers for the duration of the season. This requires six hour boat rides each way to and from the island on Lake Superior which can have varying weather. 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: Isle Royale National Park (U.S. National Park Service) - Point of contact: Corey Process, corey_process@nps.gov, 906-487-7150 IMPORTANT: Click the 'Apply for this job' button to view a complete job description.
