Seasonal Maintenance Worker

Full Job Description

This position is located in a National Park Service Unit.

Performs simple and routine work involved in the maintenance and repair of grounds, exterior structures, buildings and related utilities, requiring the use of a variety of trade practices associated with occupations such as carpentry, masonry, plumbing, electrical, cement work, painting, and other related trades.

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-03/13/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience.

For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted.

An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience.

For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.

Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience.

For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected.

In order to be qualified for this position you must possess the ability to do the work of the position with no more than normal supervision.

Typical duties include providing daily custodial, grounds and general maintenance for various buildings, river accesses, waysides and interpretive trails including transporting supplies, cleaning offices, maintaining walks and trails, installing hinges on doors, replacing glass in windows, preparing surfaces for painting, replacing faucet washers, and replacing switches.

You must provide specific examples in your resume of how you meet the qualification listed above.

We will not assume you possess experience simply because you have held a particular job title, series, or grade.

Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Major Duties:

Major Duties: Performs simple and routine maintenance and repair of grounds, exterior structures, buildings, equipment and related utilities.

Assists higher graded maintenance workers or tradesmen in the performance of their work.

Performs minor carpentry repairs using simple measures and hand tools on such tasks as replacing broken planks on picnic tables; broken window sign precut stock, minor adjustments or replaces hinges, latches and catches.

Performs minor plumbing repairs such as tightening or replacing in-kind fittings and fixtures which do not require custom fitting or solder joints; replaces faucet washers, unplugs drains using a plunger; replaces liquid petroleum gas bottles.

Performs minor painting using brush and roller according to specific instructions on projects where appearances are not critical such as staining picnic tables and trash barrels.