Essential Functions:
- First aid assessment, treatment, and evacuation.
- Perform detailed incident investigation procedure, preservation of the facts, forms, and records.
- Establish a reasonably safe skiing environment, i.e. Trail checks, trail openings/closings, early season preparation, boot packing, maintenance, obstacle marking, signage, sweeps, and special race preparation.
- Be familiar with the terrain at Panorama Mountain where avalanche search and rescue are likely.
- Be responsible for evacuation of people from the lift in the event of a breakdown.
- Enforcement of Alpine Responsibility Code
- Visible to the public for skier information.
- Preventive maintenance inspections of equipment
- Ability to respond to varying emergency situations.
- Responsibility for Others:
- Accountability for the care and safety of the skiing public as well as all other Panorama Mountain Village employees on the Mountain.
- Dispatcher records tasks for a given workday to include incident response, tasks, snow safety, general work, and special projects.
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- 80+ hour Outdoor Emergency Care Certificate (OEC) preferred or
- 80+ hour OFA level 3 or Wilderness First Aid certificate.
- Previous patrolling experience or previously employed by Panorama Mountain Resort, mountaineering experience and previous medical training are an asset.
- Must be able to lift and carry toboggans weighing as much as 60 lbs.
- Other tasks include skiing in difficult conditions, working in cold and often inclement conditions, high elevations, carrying and transporting unwieldy materials such as tower pads, medical equipment, etc.
- Must be able to hear and speak clearly to hear beacon signals and skiers requesting assistance, and for communication to occur using radios and telephones.
- Must be an advanced skier or better.