Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument – Facilities Maintenance Individual Placement

Northwest Youth Corps•Hagerman, ID

13h•Onsite

About The Position

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument is recruiting one, 640 HR (16 weeks) Maintenance Individual Placements beginning May through August 2026. This internship is located in a National Park Service Unit. The Individual Placement will perform simple and routine tasks involved in the maintenance and repair of grounds, exterior structures, buildings, and related utilities, requiring the use of a variety of trade practices associated with occupations such as carpentry, masonry, plumbing, electrical, cement work, painting, and other related trades. Individual Placement may also interact with visitors while performing maintenance work.

Requirements

Ages 18-30 (up to 35 for veterans)
U.S. Citizen or lawful, permanent resident
Must pass a background/driver check
Knowledge of the proper use and routine operator maintenance of hand tools and equipment, and the location and proper storage of materials, tools, and equipment.
Basic understanding of cleaning, grounds maintenance and lifting procedures.
Ability to lift or move light to medium-weight objects and to use basic hand tools such as rake, hand-truck, and brush.
Ability to work safely and properly use industrial cleaners, basic hand and yard tools, and equipment such as a rake, pitchfork, wheelbarrow, hand pump sprayer, hand truck, shovel, push lawn mower (manual) hammer, screwdriver, wrench, and pliers.
Ability to handle and control heavy powered equipment and to do minor maintenance on this equipment.
Knowledge of and ability to perform trails maintenance and construction and safely use the heavy hand and power tools associated with trails maintenance and construction (e.g. axes, shovels, hammers, rock bars, chainsaws, rock drills, weed eaters, etc.).
Knowledge of work and living conditions in remote backcountry locations, including standards for minimum impact camping, and the social demands of such a camp.
The Individual Placement performs work that requires moderately heavy to very heavy physical effort.
The incumbent routinely lifts, pushes, pulls, and carries items weighing 50 pounds, and up to 150 pounds (or more) with assistance.
Work will routinely require walking several miles per day over park trails to and from job sites.

Nice To Haves

Driver's License
Personal transportation

Responsibilities

Lifts and carries light to medium weight materials, tools and packages.
Opens and unpacks cardboard cartons by hand and removes contents.
Uses hand truck to move bulky, but light loads.
Performs such duties as picking up trash and paper from grounds, raking leaves or grass, pulling weeds, watering and trimming grass, spreading abrasives and/or chemicals on icy surfaces, washing motor vehicles and cleaning hand tools after use.
May spray pre-mixed weed and/or pest control solutions under controlled conditions and close supervision.
Utilizes safety practices and procedures following established safety rules and regulations and maintains a safe work environment.
Uses and assures proper fit of required safety equipment and clothing (e.g., safety gloves, ear plugs, safety glasses, steel-toe shoes, or respirators).
Maintains a clean work environment.
Cleans and lines up hand tools, performs simple clean-up duties, such as sweeping and straightening assigned area.
Scrubs, strips, waxes, and polishes floors using heavy (industrial type) powered scrubbers and buffers.
Washes walls using powered wall washing machine.
Vacuums/cleans rugs using heavy vacuum cleaner.
Adjusts, cleans, and oils these machines and changes brushes, rollers, buffers, and other attachments on them.
Washes and replaces blinds and washes ceiling fixtures and room partitions using ladders and scaffolds.
Moves heavy furniture, supplies and equipment.
Does the full range of cleaning duties in an assigned area following general instructions on the work to be done.
Uses various preparations to clean and maintain linoleum, wood, marble, and various kinds of floor, wall, and ceiling surfaces.
Removes stains from a variety of surfaces using chemicals and cleaning solutions.
Occasionally works on ladders and scaffolds to change light bulbs, wash walls, etc.
Runs powered cleaning equipment; cleans and oils it, and changes brushes and accessories.
Keeps shop areas clean and in order.
Sweeps and wet mops floor and removes oil, hydraulic fluid, grease, and other spilled liquids.
Moves heavy boxes, crates, parts, or other obstacles in order to clean up the area and picks up scraps of wood, metal and other materials.
Removes scrap and trash cans from area to central pickup point.
Wipes benches, machinery etc. as directed.
Occasionally provides general facilities assistance to others in the maintenance of buildings, grounds, roads, trails, etc.
Occasionally drives passenger cars and pickup trucks to ¾ ton size to and from job sites.
Performs all aspects of trail maintenance and construction as assigned by the trails maintenance work leader, or designee.
clears brush and fallen logs from trail corridor; cleans, repairs, and constructs log or rock drains; installs log or rock retainer bars/steps and checks and/or constructs foot and stock bridges from native materials; constructs and maintains trail structures such as turnpikes, causeways, cribbing trail tread, riprap and rock retaining walls; constructs new segments of trail; and performs rehabilitation and meadow restoration on abandoned or heavily impacted sections of trail.
Uses shovels, picks, rakes, axes, Pulaski's, various types of saws (e.g., McLeod's crosscut, pole, bow, etc.), boppers, chisels, sledgehammers, single jacks, rock bars, draw knives, measuring tapes, levels, squares, scribes, gasoline-powered jackhammers and rock drills, chainsaws, and other trade tools when performing trail maintenance and construction duties.
Maintains the tools and equipment used in safe operating condition.
Ensures work is performed safely and within prescribed NPS standards.
May assist with other park crews and/or projects on an irregular basis.