Maintenance Worker (Trails)

The purpose of the position is to perform, at the sub-journeyman level, the maintenance, repair, and construction of Park trails. Two positions will be filled in Fruita, CO and one position in Moab, UT.

This announcement is open to receive applications from the first 50 applicants. Announcement will remain open until either 50 applicants, or 02/06/2023. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration, even those that exceed the 50 applicant limit.

Qualifications:

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.

To qualify, there is no specific length of training or experience required; however, your resume must demonstrate enough experience to show your ability to perform the duties of a Maintenance Worker Lead without more than normal supervision of a work leader or journey-level employee who observes tasks in progress and upon completion to make sure they are properly performed. To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-related factors:

1. Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT)
2. Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (other than blueprints)
3. Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
4. Knowledge of materials
5. Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic)

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.

Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience.

For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Performs masonry work, primarily dry stone, in the construction, stabilization, and maintenance to historic and non-historic structures, mostly on the park trail system.
• Performs carpentry work, primarily using heavy log and rough-sawn lumber, on trail structures such as log checks, foot-bridges, multi-use bridges, corrals, hitch rails, and boardwalks.
• Transports tools, materials, employees, livestock, vehicles and equipment over 26,000 GVW to job sites and trailheads.
• Required to perform basic laborer tasks such as cleaning corrals, clean up of work sites and backcountry camps, materials moving, cleaning of vehicles and equipment, and regular clean up of shop areas.

Physical Demands: Heavy physical effort is required in bending, lifting, and using hand and power tools in trail work. Examples: frequently lifts and carries objects weighing over 100 pounds, must carry and roll rocks and logs, move rocks of several tons with rock bars, use hammers to crush or shape rock, and used shovel extensively. Frequently hikes up to 20 miles daily and must be able to do so while carrying a backpack, power and/or hand tools.

Working Conditions: Incumbent must have the ability to live and work effectively in backcountry areas in close contact with small numbers of people for extended periods of time. incumbent must live and work out-of-doors on projects in various terrain up to 13,000 feet elevation in all extremes and adverse weather conditions. Trail work is dusty, and hazardous conditions may exist when moving rocks and logs, working in and around rockslides areas, working around stock, working around explosives, failing and bucking trees, and working around machinery.

Colorado National Monument is one of the grand landscapes of the American West, centrally located between Fruita and Grand Junction in the heart of Western Colorado. As an employee of the National Park Service, you will help protect the natural and cultural resources of this place. The Grand Valley (Fruita, Grand Junction, and Palisade) has a population of approximately 150,000 people and includes multiple options for all services. Schools, hospitals, and shopping are all readily available. Abundant access to public lands provides opportunities for hiking, mountain and road biking, river rafting, snow sports, and other recreational activities.

More information about the monument can be found at www.nps.gov/COLM

Canyonlands National Park preserves a wilderness of rock at the heart of the Colorado Plateau. Water and gravity have been the prime architects of this land, cutting flat layers of sedimentary rock into hundreds of canyons, mesas, buttes, fins, arches and spires.

More information about the monument can be found at www.nps.gov/CANY

Salary : $22 - $26