Park Attendant

Park Attendant

Yukon Parks welcomes more than 85,000 visitors a year to our system of parks campgrounds and recreation sites. Together, our team strives to ensure that all visitors enjoy their stay and depart with great memories. Park Attendants play a vital role in our program by ensuring that our facilities and grounds are clean, safe, and always ready to be enjoyed.

This posting is for three seasonal positions, working 80 hours bi-weekly, usually starting from mid-April to early October for the role of Park Attendant in the Yukon communities of Whitehorse and Teslin Region.

Our role

As trusted environmental stewards, Department of Environment professionals are committed to a healthy, sustainable, and prosperous Yukon. Our people are dedicated to keeping the air, land, and water clean, the responsible management of wildlife and fostering opportunities to connect with nature. We enrich governance through building our relationships with Yukon First Nation and transboundary Indigenous partners and through the application of both science and traditional knowledge in our decision-making.

Your role

As a Park Attendant, you will be responsible to provide custodial services and basic maintenance in area campgrounds and recreation sites for use by the general public.

Our ideal candidate is committed to maintaining the highest standards in safety, client satisfaction, productivity, and quality of work. This is a physically demanding outdoor-based position that will need to load and unload large quantities of firewood by hand on a daily basis and works in all weather conditions. If you take pride in what you do, enjoy working independently, are happiest in an outdoor setting, and are committed to providing outstanding service to the public we want to hear from you!

Curious about this opportunity?

For more information about this position, please contact: Geoff Cramond, Park Maintenance Supervisor at (867)456-5559 or Geoff.Cramond@yukon.ca

For information about the recruitment process, contact Raj Gill at Raj.Gill@yukon.ca

** Please do not email resumes to either of these addresses; resumes will only be accepted through the E-Recruitment system. If you need technical support submitting your resume, please contact: E-Recruitment.clientsupport@yukon.ca

To be considered for this opportunity, you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet the following qualifications in your resume. Be sure to highlight how the experience you have acquired aligns with the ‘must haves’ for this position, including the month and year for each work experience entry. Selection for further consideration is based solely on the information you provide in your resume.

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Include the month and year you started and ended a job when you list your work experience. This allows us to accurately calculate the length of time you were in the position.

Essential Qualifications

• Experience performing custodial services.

• Experience performing minor maintenance and repairs to buildings/facilities.

• Experience providing client service to the public.

• Experience operating chainsaws and brush saws is an asset.

• Experience working independently in remote areas is an asset.

  
  

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Suitability

Candidates should have and may be assessed on:

• Ability to work independently and safely in a remote setting.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Safety and service orientation.

• Ability to self-direct work.

• Reliability and motivation.

  
  

Additional Information

The incumbents of these positions are expected to work weekends and report from their headquarters area. This is a reoccurring seasonal position that enjoys leave benefits as well as extended health care options.

Conditions of Employment: Valid Yukon Class 5 driver’s license.

Job Requirements: Physical work in outdoor remote settings, including weekends and holidays, in all weather conditions.

Why joining us is a great idea

Yukon government has been recognized as a Top 100 Canadian Employer since 2014.

We support balancing personal and professional needs through comprehensive benefits, the ability to build your professional skills through learning and developmental opportunities, and flexible work and leave options.

There’s no best way to tell you why Yukon is an amazing place to live and work but you can see some of what our Territory has to offer here:

• Working at the Yukon Government
• Explore Whitehorse
• Travel Yukon