Terrain Park Crew Hand Media Specialist

Overview

Be part of a team that creates an amazing terrain park experience.

The Terrain Park Hand Crew Media Specialist is unique role supporting both Terrain Park hand crew and the Summit at Snoqualmie’s Marketing Team. Its primary role, as part of the Terrain Park Crew will focus on making the guest park experience the best it can be, through maintenance, teaching park etiquette, and offering help whenever we can. Park Crew are often the first park employees that guests interact with, so we encourage crew to share their love of our winter sports through positive interactions.

Come work and play at Seattle’s home mountain, The Summit ated an hour West of Seattle via Interstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass, The Summit includes four unique mountain areas, a snow tubing park, Nordic center, Snow Sports School, and 10+ food and beverage establishments.

Job duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Work to create a park culture which is inclusive, creative, collaborative, with a safety-oriented mindset
• Participate in reoccurring strategy meetings with terrain park leadership team and marketing team

• Check the following are installed: entrance ropes/closure, boundary fence, Park SMART signage is visible and legible.
• Open and close the Park
• Flagging feature’s (jumps) takeoff and landing areas
• Inspecting rail, box and jib features (take offs, sides, landings, surfaces of the feature)
• Testing Features (physically testing (ski or snowboard) the feature) to check for safety for guests
• With ski through evaluation conducted and signage, ropes, closures, etc., in place, the park staff will call dispatch and report the opening of the park,
• New features require sign-off from Park lead, Ski Patrol, Mtn Ops and Risk Manager.
• Staff will circulate through (ski or snowboard) terrain parks regularly, making sure:
  • Signage is visible and legible.
  • Park Boundaries are in place.
  • Rope lines are tight and neat.
  • Perform maintenance on features showing wear; i.e. rutted or kinked take-offs, holes in landings, thin spots, or holes in the in-run, any safety issues, etc.
  • Frequently check all jib features for maintenance needs, i.e. burrs on sliding surfaces, broken skirting, broken rivets, jibs that are leaning over / loose, etc.
  • Assist Patrol with any incidents, or incident investigations.
  • Communicate & educate guests about the Terrain Park, use Park SMART for reference.
  • Pick up trash: under the lift, in front of/inside top shack, and yurt
• Other duties as assigned
• Closing the park:
  • Taking down ropes, fences, signs for groomers
  • Perform 360 maintenance on all park features (requires skiing and snowboarding)
  • Transport bamboo to correct locations (ski or snowmobile)
  • Locking up tools, radios and buildings prior to leaving
  • Strong eye for composition, lighting, timing, and storytelling when producing content

• Come to work with a positive and professional attitude
• Build a strong relationship with Marketing by showing up, staying positive, and finding solutions that make it easier to share the terrain park experience with our guests.

• Collaborate with Park Grooming on complex projects including new feature construction, jib installation/removal, and special event course preparation

• Work in conjunction with the marketing team to provide operations updates to our guests
• Provide timely terrain park conditions updates
• Organize, capture and edit IG stories for submission to the marketing department for posting
• Supplement marketing teams event planning and media capture
• Act as a liaison between terrain parks and marketing department

What we are looking for:

• Demonstrate strong communication skills to collaborate with multiple departments and team…