• Job Description

  Req#: 763911000
  The incumbent works primarily on the backcountry and front country trails. The primary purpose of the position is to assist journeyman level tradesmen in all areas of trails maintenance in the park unit.
  
  Duties
  
  
  Performs routine and complex trail maintenance, rehabilitation and construction of graded foot, mountain bike, and horse trails. Work includes building, repairing, and maintaining erosion control structures, retaining walls, and tread surface and reblazing of trails; park boundary line maintenance, removal of vegetation growth and fallen rock and tree obstructions from trails. The trails may include ADA accessible trails with special surfaces, trails in high visitor use areas, foot and horse use trails in remote backcountry areas and trails in designated Wilderness areas. Trail work is performed with a variety of hand tools including shovels, picks, fire rakes, swing blades (grass whip), McLeods, pulaskis, rock bars, cross-cut saws, wheelbarrows, grip hoist, etc. and small power equipment such as chainsaws, weed trimmers, rock drills and jack hammers.
  
  Operates vehicles in the performance of assigned duties for transportation of self and other employees to and from worksites. Typical vehicles include pickup trucks (including 4WD operation), utility body trucks, crew cab pickup/utility trucks, automobiles, panel vans, light mower and utility tractors, all-terrain vehicles, and small towed equipment or trailers.
  
  The position requires frequent strenuous activity. Selectees are required to hike up to 10 miles over steep, rough and uneven mountainous terrain into backcountry worksites while carrying work tools. At least ninety percent of work is performed in an outdoor setting.
  
  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, 15 December 2023** Referral certificates will be issued when a hiring official exhausts current certificate and/or additional vacancies need to be filled
  
  Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area ($24.66-28.79/hr) Point of contact: Bill Tagye, 570-426-2416, william_tagye@nps.gov
  New River Gorge National Park & Reserve ($20.54-23.97/hr) Point of contact: Lark Morgan Hartsock, 304-465-6548, lark_harsock@nps.gov
  Shenandoah National Park ($22.52-26.27) Point of contact: William Jenkins, 540-999-3500 x3141, dave_jenkins@nps.gov
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-related factors:
  
  • Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT)
  • Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specification, etc. (includes blueprints reading)
  • Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
  • Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation Repair, etc.
  • Knowledge of materials
  • Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic)
  • Use of Measuring Instruments
  
  
  SCREEN OUT: Skilled in trail construction and rehabilitation work including repair of trail tread and drainage structures; constructing walls, turn piking, cribbing, and foot bridges; removing windfalls, felling trees, and utilizing block, tackle, and winches for moving and placing heavy objects; installed water bars, rock and wood, turn piking, and repair trail tread through leveling with fill; operating motorized utility terrain vehicles (UTV), 4x4, and utility vehicles. Experience includes the use and maintenance of proper tools to complete the task. Able to perform the strenuous work required by this position such as carrying heavy objects weighing up to 100 pounds and hiking mountainous terrain up to 12 miles per day. Considered an expert and work with a high degree of independence.
  
  If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN OUT factor above is not sufficient, you will receive no further consideration. In preparing your application, describe in detail the experience and training which you have had that specifically prepared you for this job and to perform the duties described for this job. Experience should be clearly described and documented in your resume. The qualifications reviewer will not assume performance of such duties by Job Titles alone. Address your knowledge, skills and/or abilities in the areas shown in the job-related factors.
  
  Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

• About the company

  The United States Department of the Interior is a federal executive department of the U.S. government. It is responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States, as well as programs related to historic preservation. About 75% of federal public land is managed by the department, with most of the remainder managed by the United States Department of Agriculture's United States Forest Service. The department was created on March 3, 1849.

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