Job Announcement: Trails Recreation Technician
Position Title – Forestry Technician (Recreation), GS-0462-05 Equivalent
Employer – Feather River Resource Conservation District
Status – Non-Exempt/Full-time Seasonal
Location – Quincy, CA
Compensation – $19.00/hour
Primary roles – Trail maintenance and monitoring
Position Summary
This position is located on a Forest Service unit performing a variety of duties in support of the unit’s trail program.
Major Duties
Serves as a member of a trail maintenance team, to maintain, repair, and build trails throughout the Forest Service unit and improve recreational access to forest lands and protect the land from resource damage. Builds trails with gravel and associated materials, restores impacted areas, and replaces signage as needed. Constructs a variety of trail structures such as turnpikes, boardwalks, retaining walls, and rock features.
Prepares construction materials, ensures proper tool maintenance, and reports work completed.
May complete trail logs, condition, and prescription surveys.
Adheres to regulations concerning trails maintenance specific to the Wilderness Act by using traditional tools such as cross-cut saws while working in the wilderness. Patrols wilderness to
ensure that areas are operated, used, and maintained in accordance with wilderness management plans.
Oversees routine maintenance of trails at dispersed recreation sites including cleanup and naturalizing. May interact and work with forest visitors, trail partner organizations, and volunteers. Employee is expected to carry out work with a team and occasionally independently.
Job involves daily driving in a Forest Service vehicle, use of hand tools, chainsaws, and other trail maintenance equipment. Personal protective equipment including hardhats, gloves, and boots are required. The work requires walking and climbing in steep, uneven terrain, exposure to adverse weather and insects, performing physical labor, bending, lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds or more. The work is performed outdoors where there is exposure to extremes of weather and temperature.
Season
The position start date is May 20th and goes through October 19th.
How to Apply
Please submit a cover letter, resume, and three (3) references in PDF to mpoling@frrcd.org with “Rec Tech Application 2024” in the subject line. Applications are due by March 29th, 2024 at 11:59pm.
FEATHER RIVER RCD IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO ALL REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOR, CREED, NATIONAL ORIGIN, ANCESTRY, SEX, MARITAL STATUS, DISABILITY, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL AFFILIATION, AGE OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION. IT IS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE FEATHER RIVER RCD TO ACHIEVE A DRUG FREE WORKPLACE. ANY APPLICANT WILL BE EXPECTED TO BEHAVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS OBJECTIVE BECAUSE THE USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE, CIVIL SERVICE RULES, AND A SPECIAL TRUST PLACED IN PUBLIC SERVANTS.