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FUL - Seasonal Maintenance Worker (Trails)
National Park Service · Posted today
About the Role
The typical season is May through November but can be variable during these months due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding. Anticipated Entry on Duty: June or July 2026. Positions located in: Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
What You'll Do
- →WG-05 Maintenance Worker (Trails) - performs trail maintenance, construction, and repair.
- →Tasks include clearing trails of wind falls, limbs, rocks, landslides, and other debris; digging or cleaning culverts and ditches for drainage purposes; clearing brush; tread work on native soil, gravel and asphalt trails.
- →Assist or lead trail crews on bridge building, tread, brushing, drainage and trail clearing projects.
- →Construct or repair bridges, food boxes, ramps, corrals, outbuildings and pit toilets.
- →Assist in or perform masonry work.
- →Paint or stains boxes, corrals, pit toilets and bridges.
- →May assist in maintenance of historic structures.
- →May assist Packer with preparing loads, as well as saddling and transporting stock.
- →Service and repair chain saws, brushing saws, gas rock drills and breakers, and generators.
- →Repair tents, hand tools, lanterns, stoves; sharpens axes, pulaski's, shovels and clippers.
- →Responsible for inventory updates and issuance of trails equipment, parts and materials.
- →Work may involve living and working in remote backcountry regions of the park.
- →Work involves long distance hiking, often with heavy backpacks, and long hours of hard physical labor to perform trail maintenance and construction tasks.
- →Trail workers often carry loads weighing up to 50 pounds and may be required to hike up to 20 miles per day over steep and/or rough terrain.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship required.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
- ✓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.
- ✓You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards.
- ✓A uniform allowance will be provided.
- ✓You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.
- ✓There is no substitution of education for experience for Wage Grade (WG) positions.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 9e56eb46-7302-4d48-bcd9-87c110813acf
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