Seasonal Custodial Worker - Motor Vehicle Operating; MVO

The primary purpose of work is custodial, janitorial, and outdoor landscape work with a preventative maintenance emphasis such as small plumbing and electrical repairs, grass cutting, line trimming, sweeping, washing windows from ladders or manlifts and walls, dusting and polishing museum artifacts, interpretive panels, and providing maintenance and cleaning to trash receptacles. You must on a regular basis operate light duty motor vehicles weighing up to 10,000 pounds.

This position is located at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota. As a Custodial Worker (MVO), you will perform custodial, janitorial, and outdoor landscape work with a preventative maintenance emphasis such as small plumbing and electrical repairs, grass cutting, line trimming, sweeping, washing windows and walls from ladders or manlifts, dusting and polishing museum artifacts, interpretative panels, and providing maintenance, cleaning, and trash removal from multiple receptacles.

Work is done by hand or with ride on or walk behind power equipment. In order to accomplish the custodial/janitorial assignments, you must on a regular and recurring basis operate light duty motor vehicles weighing up to 10,000 pounds (such as pick-up trucks, panel trucks, flatbed trucks, or utility vehicles) to transport personnel, material, or equipment to work sites located at or near Mount Rushmore.

This position is not a Testing Designated Position.

An appointment to this position is restricted by law (5 U.S.C. 3310) to Veterans who are preference eligible if such applicants are available.

All Custodial certificates must list the preference eligible first, then a certificate of non-preference eligible may be issued.

This is an open continuous vacancy announcement. Applicants will be referred periodically throughout the announcement period. Final application disposition will be completed once all positions have been filled or the announcement reaches the end of the open period stated in the announcement. The first cut-off date is 11:59 pm EST, January 14, 2026. Initial consideration will be given to candidates whose applications have been received before the first cut-off date.

Qualification requirements must be met for those applications submitted by the first cut-off date.

AREA INFORMATION: Mount Rushmore National Memorial is located三 miles west of Keystone, South Dakota, in the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota. Housing for purchase or rent, schools, medical and dental facilities, churches of most faiths, and shopping are available in Rapid City, 25 miles northeast of Park Headquarters, and in nearby Hill City and Custer.