Park Ranger ; Olympic Peninsula Parks

Park Ranger 1

Join the Olympic Peninsula team as a Park Ranger 1 where you're responsible for preserving and enhancing our state parks and natural resources.

This recruitment will be used to fill two (2) full-time permanent Park Ranger 1 positions, one (1) position at Dosewallips State Park and one (1) position at Sequim Bay State Park. Dosewallips State Park (Jefferson County) is a year-round camping park with 5 miles of shoreline on Hood Canal and the Dosewallips River. The park provides opportunities for camping, hiking, bird watching, angling for freshwater or saltwater fish, digging for oysters and clams, swimming in the river, beach exploration, picnicking, or watching a herd of elk wander through camp.

The campground has cabins for rent and campfire programs are conducted on most weekends in the summer months. Sequim Bay State Park (Clallam County) is a year-round, 92-acre camping park in the Olympic Rain Shadow with 4,909 feet of saltwater shoreline. The park provides opportunities for camping, boating, picnicking, tennis courts and baseball fields, playgrounds, fishing, crabbing and shell fishing, water activities and beach exploration.

Sequim Bay also hosts the Ramblewood Retreat Center and the Olympic Discovery Trail travels from Port Angeles through the park.

As a Park Ranger 1, you will have the ability to work outdoors in a beautiful and scenic environment, while being part of a team that supports one of the most diverse state park systems in the nation. If you are a hard worker that enjoys serving the public, then this may be the position for you. We believe that equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, so we encourage candidates from all identities and backgrounds to apply!

The Park Ranger 1 independently performs a variety of duties defined by the Program Manager and Area Manager. This position provides day-to-day customer service, supports rule compliance, assists area staff by working in other area parks, works with staff to maintain consistently high standards for restroom cleaning and grounds, and provides routine maintenance services that support the operation of the park area.

Further, this position protects, preserves, and enhances the park and natural resources, while ensuring the safety and welfare of the park visitors to the park area.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Performs duties of rule and regulation compliance for the park area
  • Educates park visitors on rules and regulations that govern activities within the park area, including Discover Pass enforcement.
• Provides routine maintenance and stewardship functions within the park area
  • Supervises and completes lower-level maintenance projects for park area, where journey level skills are not required.
  • Completes, assigns, and schedules routine grounds and facilities maintenance and upkeep duties.
  • Ensures priorities are adhered to and identified standards for cleanliness and sanitation are met for routine ground and facilities maintenance and upkeep.
  • Inspects lower-level maintenance projects within the park area for compliance with identified standards.
  • Cleans restrooms and other park facilities.
• Provides registration and customer service functions
  • Directs public contact providing general information, rules & regulations, services, emergency information and assistance, and area specific information.
• Performs administrative duties
  • Accurately and timely completes new employee hiring paperwork.
  • Completes park's Cash Receipt Transmittals (CRTs).
• Supervises lower-level staff
  • Supervises and provides oversight and instruction to staff, work groups, and volunteers.
  • Follows all Agency policies and procedures, statewide rules and regulations and the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school diploma or GED.
• United States citizen or legal to work in the U.S.
• A valid driver's license (unrestricted, other than corrective lenses).
• Must be 21 years old.
• Two (2) years of college (60 semester or 90 quarter credits), military experience, commissioned law enforcement experience, natural resource, or recreation field experience.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience performing minor construction and…