Summary: Assures the operation and safety of all lifts in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations of The Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board, United States Forest Service, American National Standards Institute, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. This is a journey level position and employee will be working under supervision. The employee may lead a team in a predictive and/or discovery project. Follows company policies, procedures, and safety practices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Perform all tasks included in the Lift Mechanic I position
• Maintain all work spaces in a clean/professional fashion. No project is complete until the mess has been cleaned up. Keep lift shacks clean and organized, and ALL trash SHALL be removed from lift shacks EVERY DAY.
• Perform routine and predictive maintenance and inspections on motor rooms, line equipment, and other ski lift components
• Troubleshoot mechanical ski lift problems
• Inspect and adjust brakes
• Perform visual and audible inspections of ski lifts
• Ensure timely completion of all paperwork, including daily visual, weekly, monthly, summer work, CPTSB paperwork, and training logs.
• Train Level I mechanics to perform a variety of maintenance tasks
• Plan all projects using time management, inventory control, and personnel resources. Plan in advance to have all needed parts to complete a project from start to finish.
• Assist Level III mechanics in performing a variety of complex maintenance tasks
• Possess working knowledge of basic heavy rigging.
• Upper Level II Mechanics have the ability/responsibility to lead and/or train a crew in a wide variety of basic and intermediate maintenance tasks

Supervisory Responsibilities:

May serve as a team leader to 2-3 employees in the Lift Maintenance. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.

Qualifications:

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.

Education and/or Experience:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Must have a minimum of three years lift maintenance experience and exceed all qualifications of Level One Apprentice. Lift operations training is preferred.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Exchange/Outlook Internet software; Excel Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.

Other Qualifications:

• Must have mechanical background.
• Must be able to ski/board to assigned stations around the mountain.
• Must be proficient in using all types of mechanics tools.
• Must be able to use:
• Snow machines.
• Hydraulic rams, pumps, A-fames, chains, etc.
• Ski lift components.
• Certain other heavy equipment.
• Off road use of pick-ups and ATV’s.
• Must be able to communicate proficiently via radio
• Must have driver's license.
• Must be able to work nights, weekends, holidays and overtime.
• Must be able to function effectively at elevations of 10,000 feet or higher.
• Must be able to function effectively in inclement weather conditions.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes, lubricants, solvents, chemicals or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

The wage for this position is $23/hr.

FTYR Benefits include Group Health (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & AD&D), 401(K) Match, Flexible Spending, Paid Time Off, Mix of Vacation Time/Sick Time

Benefits include ski pass, dependent passes (for full time commitment), discounted lift tickets, lift tickets at other CO resorts, discounted employee shuttles and discounted meals and lodging and ski school discounts