This Custodial Worker (Motor Vehicle Operator) position is located in Rocky Mountain National Park in the Facilities & Maintenance division. For additional information about this specific position, please contact hiring manager Eron Early at [email protected]. This position is restricted to veteran's preference eligibles. Non-preference candidates are encouraged to apply to the position, but they will only receive consideration if no veteran's preference eligibles are available.

Duties

Major Duties: This position performs the full range of custodial work including cleaning and servicing vault toilets, buildings, campgrounds, and emptying trash receptacles. These positions are required to operate a government vehicle to perform assigned work and may provide general assistance to others in the maintenance of buildings, grounds, roads, trails, etc. These are uniformed positions and must be able to respond to visitors politely. Physical Effort: Exerts very heavy physical effort in doing such tasks as frequently lifting and moving objects weighing 30 to 50 pounds, and items up to 70 pounds with assistance of other workers or weight handling equipment, running power mowers, pushing heavy wheelbarrow loads, operating power tools. Extensive walking, bending and lifting are required by this position. Working Conditions: Incumbent is required to work outside in all kinds of weather conditions and inside areas that may be dusty, drafty and noisy and could be exposed to fumes. Incumbent is exposed to the possibility of cuts, bruises, and broken bones. The equipment, tools and tasks involved frequently require special care to avoid serious injuries and incumbent uses safety gloves, earplugs, safety glasses to avoid severe injuries. Incumbent is required to work various shifts Monday thru Friday including weekends and holidays. Motor vehicles are driven in all types of traffic and weather on public roads and incumbent is exposed to the danger of serious accidents. Incumbent is required to wear a seat belt. Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. In this position you will work from approximately March through October, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year unless other work exists that can be assigned to during this period. Though non-pay time may be reduced, you will still be placed in non-pay status for a minimum of 1 pay period each year in accordance with NPS policy. Housing: Government housing may be available on a temporary or permanent basis but is not guaranteed. Housing assignments are made through a bid process. Area Information: Established on January 29, 1915, Rocky Mountain National Park is a living showcase of the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. The park embraces 415 square miles of pristine, uninhabited mountains in north-central Colorado and, as such, is one of the most spectacular, yet easily accessible high mountain areas in North America. With elevations ranging from 7,800 feet at park headquarters to 14,259 feet at the summit of Longs Peak, the park has glacier-sculptured valleys, rugged gorges, alpine lakes, and vast areas of alpine tundra. Trail Ridge Road, the highest paved continuous road in the United States, stays above tree line for 11 miles and reaches 12,183 feet in elevation. Elk, deer, bighorn sheep, moose, coyotes, and smaller animals are found throughout the park, as well as threatened and endangered species, such as the Greenback Cutthroat Trout and Boreal Toad. Due to the park's easy accessibility to the Front Range communities of Colorado, Rocky experiences over 4 million visitors annually. This position will be filled on the east side of Rocky Mountain National Park. The nearest community is Estes Park, CO, which has K-12 schools, a post office, restaurants, medical facilities, and grocery stores. Denver, CO, which has a major airport, cultural events, and several professional sports teams, is less than a two-hour drive away.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-related factors: Ability To Do the Work of the Position Without More Than Normal Supervision; Custodial work includes performing custodial and janitorial work such as sweeping, scrubbing and waxing floors. Cleaning and deodorize lavatories, urinals, toilets and sinks. Washes windows and walls, dusting and polishing furniture and fixtures and routine grounds maintenance without more than normal supervision. Able to operate light duty motor vehicles weighing up to 10,000 pounds (such as pickup trucks, panel trucks, flatbed trucks etc.) to transport personnel, material, or equipment to work sites located in the park. (SCREEN OUT) Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (other than blueprints) Dexterity and Safety Work Practices (including keeping things neat, clean, and in order) 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. 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 Rocky Mountain National Park 1000 Highway 36 Estes Park, CO 80517 US
• Name: Ethan Baer
• Email: [email protected]