Seasonal Student Trainee (Laborer-Trails)

Job Title

The incumbent will routinely perform the following duties of the position as follows:

• Clearing brush and fallen limbs from trails. Cleans, repairs and constructs log or rock drains; installs log or rock retainer bars/steps and checks/ constructs foot and stock bridges from native materials.
• Constructs and maintains trail structures such as turnpikes, causeways, cribbing trail tread and constructs new segments of trail; performs rehabilitation and meadow restoration on abandoned or heavily impacted sections of trail.
• Uses and maintains tools and equipment to include shovels, picks, rakes, axes, Pulaski's, McLeod's crosscut, pole, bow, boppers, chisels, sledgehammers, single jacks, rock bars, draw knives, measuring tapes, levels, squares, scribes, jackhammers, rock drills, etc.
• Assists other park crews on projects if time permits.

This is an open continuous announcement, in which applications are collected over several months, and have multiple cut-off dates. Applications will be considered throughout the open period of the announcement.

Initial cut-off is Monday, January 12, 2026. Additional referral certificates will be issued when a hiring official exhausts current certificate and/or additional vacancies need to be filled. For more information about the park of the position please contact: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.