State Park Ranger

USA: | Parks and Recreation | Full Time

22.10 - 22.10 USD per hour

Working as a State Park Ranger at Hells Gate State Park offers a rewarding opportunity to engage with visitors in a park rich in history and natural beauty. You’ll help visitors explore the park’s unique features, such as the remnants of ice age floods and the Nez Perce Village, while sharing fascinating stories and information. The park offers a variety of recreational activities, from jet boat rides and steelhead fishing to picnicking and biking along scenic trails.

As a ranger, you’ll play an active role in ensuring visitor safety, providing excellent customer service, and enhancing their experience.

In addition to visitor services, rangers at Hells Gate also help maintain the park’s facilities and grounds. You’ll be involved in routine maintenance, ensuring the park’s trails, campsites, and other areas are clean, safe, and well-maintained. You may assist with light construction, such as repairing picnic tables or improving park structures, and ensure the park’s equipment is properly maintained for both safety and functionality.

The park’s tranquil campsites along the beautiful Snake River provide a serene environment, and the warm weather, thanks to the park’s low elevation, makes for a pleasant working atmosphere year-round. This position lets you combine your love of nature, history, park maintenance, and community engagement, all while enjoying the beauty of Hells Gate State Park.

For questions about this position, please contact Park Manager, Steve Kuskie:

1. Visitor Services and Resource Protection.

• Provides information to visitors and the public regarding park history and geology, plants, and animals.
• Conducts nature walks.
• Develops and presents interpretive and environmental awareness programs for park visitors, school groups, and organizations.
• Performs research for programs and displays Informs visitors of pertinent regulations of the Department as well as other partner organizations such as the Department of Fish and Game and Department of Lands.
• Collects fees.
• Ensures compliance with outdoor recreation program and park rules and regulations.
• Works with local enforcement agencies to give warnings.
• Patrols park to protect and preserve park resources from vandalism and abuse.
• Promotes public safety.
• Serves as liaison between the park and other enforcement agencies.
• Administers first aid, organizes, markets, and implements special events.

2. Administrative.

• Works with other park staff to hire, train, schedule, and supervise seasonal employees and volunteers.
• Prepares and maintains reports, expense transmittals, records, logs, and inventories.
• Purchases supplies and materials.
• Prepares research reports and procedure manuals.
• May represent the department at meetings with the public, user, and/or special interest groups and partner agencies.

3. Park Maintenance.

• Maintains park facilities and grounds to ensure resource preservation and visitor safety.
• Performs a variety of basic craft activities including carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and masonry.
• Operates and repairs vehicles, trucks, mowers, groomers, backhoes, and hand and power tools.
• Fells and removes hazardous trees.
• Designs, modifies, and fabricates equipment; inspects the area and takes corrective action for hazardous conditions and defective equipment.
• These positions involve various skills including public relations; natural resource management; park building and grounds maintenance; park and recreation rule compliance, and conflict resolution of visitor and user issues.

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