These positions are located at Indiana Dunes National Park. For more information, please contact Lorena Nelson at [email protected] 0r at Anticipated Entry on Duty: 5/21/2023 NOTE: Custodial Worker positions are set aside for those with veterans preference. Non-veterans may not be selected until all available qualified veterans who apply to this announcement have been considered.

Duties

NOTE: YOUR RESUME MUST SHOW THAT YOU HAVE CUSTODIAL or JANITORIAL WORK EXPERIENCE. IF IT DOESN'T, YOU WILL BE FOUND NOT QUALIFIED. Major Duties: Duties include the daily cleaning of office buildings, visitor use areas such as beach bathhouse, restrooms, picnic shelters and campground, emptying of trash and recycle bins, litter pick-up, beach clean-up, and grounds maintenance such as mowing, weed eating, blowing and shoveling. This is a full-time seasonal position. Length is dependent upon the budget. PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT: Must be in excellent physical condition, able to do considerable walking, standing, bending, kneeling, stretching, climbing, crawling, working outdoors in extreme weather conditions including high humidity, wind, dust and temperatures that can reach 100+ degrees. Employee frequently lifts and carries moderately heavy objects up to 50 lbs. routinely. Occasionally lifts and/or carries objects over 50 pounds. Area Information: Indiana Dunes National Park is a 15,000-acre park located at the southern tip of Lake Michigan, approximately 45 miles southeast of Chicago, Illinois. The park is among the top 10 most visited National Park units annually. Small towns and resort communities on the beaches of Lake Michigan, and farms, interspersed with large tracts of woodlands and wetlands, surround the park. All services are available in the communities, to include schools, colleges, shopping, and other major amenities. The park hugs 15 miles of Lake Michigan's southern shoreline, and includes several historic districts, and over 50 miles of horse, bike and hiking trails over rugged dunes, mysterious wetlands, sunny prairies, meandering rivers, and peaceful forests! The park also surrounds the 2,000-acre Indiana Dunes State Park, and a large residential environmental education center. The Park is the birthplace of the science of ecology and has one of the most diverse plant communities in the National Park Service system. The park further supports several geographically dispersed units within the park. The area has weather typical of the Midwest with temperatures normally ranging from 0 degrees in the winter to 90 degrees in the summer. No government housing available, however, many reasonably priced houses and rental properties exist in the surrounding communities. Open to the first 75 applicants or until 01/16/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Requirements

Qualifications

YOUR RESUME MUST SHOW THAT YOU HAVE DONE CUSTODIAL / JANITORIAL WORK! IF IT DOESN'T, YOU WILL BE FOUND NOT QUALIFIED. To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the job-related factors. If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN OUT factors are 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. A specific length of time and experience is not required to be considered qualified for this position. However, you must be able to demonstrate in your resume and supporting application materials that you possess sufficient knowledge, skill and ability to perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision. Note: You must demonstrate that you have experience of PERSONALLY performing this type of work. Supervising, managing, planning or contracting this type of work which does not demonstrate that you can also personally do the work will not be considered as qualifying. 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.

Education

There is no substitution of education for experience for Wage Grade (WG) positions.

Contacts

• Address Indiana Dunes National Park 1100 N Mineral Springs Rd Porter, IN 46304 US
• Name: Mark Laver
• Phone: (330) 657-2370 X4
• Email: [email protected]