Minidoka National Historic Site- Maintenance and Facilities Management Individual Placement

Minidoka National Historic Site
- Maintenance and Facilities Management Individual Placement

Recruitment began on February 11, 2026

and the job listing Expires on March 14, 2026

16 Weeks:
May 11, 2026 – August 31, 2026

Position Title: Maintenance and Facilities Management Individual Placement

Position Summary:

The National Park Service is recruiting summer Individual Placements at Minidoka National Historic Site (MIIN). The members will serve the Facilities Management team. This Individual Placement is located in a National Park Service Unit. The Individual Placements will conduct a variety of tasks associated with the use and management of park resources. The purpose of the position is to supplement the permanent facilities workforce by performing duties designed to: (1) maintain and repair grounds, exterior structures, historic and modern buildings, and related utilities;

(2) learn a variety of trade practices associated with occupations such as natural resource maintenance, cultural resource preservation, landscaping, facilities upkeep, and painting, and other related trades; (3) support park staff in managing park resources. Individual Placements may also interact with visitors while performing maintenance work.

Northwest Youth Corps was created in 1984 to offer teenagers and young adults an education-based, work experience modeled after the historic Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930’s. Today, we serve over 1,000 youth and young adults each year across a four-state region who restore critical habitat, build trails, lead volunteers, educate youth, and respond to local and national disasters.

During World War II, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated without due process of law. Although little remains of the barbed-wire fences and tar-papered barracks, the Minidoka concentration camp once held over 13,000 Japanese Americans in the Idaho desert. Established in 2001, Minidoka National Historic Site preserves their legacy and teaches the importance of civil liberties.

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Major duties are related to learning and working alongside personnel in Facilities Management division at Minidoka National Historic Site in Jerome, Idaho. The Individual Placement will maintain the landscape and buildings of the historic site by learning skills in facilities, custodial, and trail management. It is also the Individual Placement’s responsibility to make a conscious effort to be situationally aware of visitors when maintenance work is in close proximity to them, be respectful and mindful of them.

Performs such duties as picking up trash from grounds, raking leaves or grass, pulling weeds, watering and trimming grass, washing motor vehicles and cleaning hand tools. Responsibilities include maintaining historic buildings, managing time and work schedule, and occasionally providing general facilities assistance to others in the maintenance of buildings, grounds, roads, trails, etc. Occasionally drives UTV, passenger cars, tractors, riding lawn mowers, and pickup trucks ¾ ton size to and from job sites.

May also pull light trailers behind vehicles.

Performs such duties as cleaning, washing, and maintaining park buildings. Responsibilities include but not limited to, cleaning and polishing floors/restrooms/museum spaces/windows, managing cleaning equipment, moving heavy furniture, sweeping and mopping, monitor and replace toilet paper and disposing of waste. Occasionally works on ladders and scaffolds to change light bulbs, wash walls, etc.

Performs all aspects of trail maintenance and construction as assigned by the trail’s maintenance work leader, or designee. Examples of the work performed include clears brush and fallen logs from trail corridor; constructs, cleans, and maintains trail structures such as waysides, trail tread, and rock retaining walls; constructs new segments of trail; and performs rehabilitation and tread restoration on abandoned or heavily impacted sections of trail.

Maintains the tools and equipment used in safe operating…