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FUL-Seasonal Maintenance Worker
National Park Service · Posted today
About the Role
These positions are located in National Park of American Samoa, within the Facilities Division. The typical seasonal entry-on-duty period is August, but can be variable during these months due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding. Anticipated entry-on-duty: August, 2026.
What You'll Do
- →As a Maintenance Worker, you will perform the following duties: Vegetation control - uses hand and power equipment to facilitate trimming, cutting, and removing various vegetation that has encroached on park infrastructure, buildings, parking areas, and trails.
- →Trail maintenance - often in remote areas, requires hiking up to 4 miles each way, and using hand tools such as picks and shovels to maintain a safe and accessible trail.
- →Custodial and trash collection.
- →The maintenance worker regularly patrols the park collecting trash from various trailheads, and visitor use areas.
- →WG-5 only: Chainsaw and Power Equipment operation to complete trail work and/or vegetation work.
- →WG-5 only: Operates light trucks/ATVs to pick up supplies and to transport materials to and from work sites while assisting on project work.
- →Physical Demands: WG-04 - The incumbent may lift, carry, set up and handle tools, parts, equipment and materials that weigh up to or over 50 pounds unassisted.
- →May work from ladders, platforms, scaffolds and perform work or repairs in hard-to-reach places and positions.
- →Requires standing, stooping, bending, kneeling and climbing in tiring and uncomfortable positions.
- →Required to operate standard hand and power tools.
- →WG-05 - Works from ladders, scaffolds and platforms and where surfaces to be coated, or the parts of systems worked on are hard to reach that require incumbent to stand, stoop, bend, kneel, climb and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions.
- →Frequently lifts, carries and sets up parts and equipment that weigh up to 40 pounds.
- →Working Conditions: WG-04 - Work is performed both inside and outside.
- →Incumbent is subject to climatic extremes in all weather conditions.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship required.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males.
- ✓Must provide proof of residency that you live in a village on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa.
- ✓Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
- ✓WG-04: You may be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties.
- ✓You will also submit a photocopy of your valid State issued driver's license prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year, or more frequently if management determines such need exists.
- ✓Lastly, you may be required to submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that discloses all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.
- ✓Please indicate in your application whether you possess a valid State driver's license.
- ✓WG-05 : You will be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required.
- ✓You will be required to submit a Motor Vehicle Operator's License and Driving Record.
- ✓You must also submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that disclose all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.
- ✓WG-05: You may be required to complete training and operate a four-wheel drive vehicle.
- ✓You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 5a64f1cb-8ad8-4634-8cdb-dcbc66f5a837
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