Job Description
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trail maintenance job description typically involves working to maintain and improve hiking and other types of recreational trails. Key Responsibilities often include:
- Trail Repair and Improvement: This can involve clearing debris, repairing erosion, re-establishing trail markers, and improving drainage systems.
- Vegetation Management: Clearing brush, pruning trees, and removing invasive species to keep the trail clear and accessible.
- Structure Maintenance: Building and repairing trail structures like bridges, steps, and observation decks.
- Tool and Equipment Use: Safely and effectively operating various hand tools (like shovels, axes, pulaskis, mcleods) and potentially power tools (like chainsaws, drills).
- Trail Inspection and Assessment: Regularly inspecting trails to identify maintenance needs and potential hazards.
- Safety Procedures: Adhering to field safety protocols to ensure the safety of themselves and others.
Qualifications often required:
- Physical Fitness and Endurance: Trail maintenance work involves strenuous physical labor and often working in remote outdoor environments.
- Experience: Often a high school diploma or equivalent and some experience in outdoor maintenance, landscaping, or forestry is required.
- Skills: Knowledge of trail maintenance techniques, tool usage, safety procedures, and potentially navigation skills.
Work Environment:
- Outdoors: Trail maintenance workers spend significant time outdoors in various weather conditions and potentially remote locations.
- Physically Demanding: The job involves manual labor, lifting heavy objects, and hiking over uneven terrain.
In essence, a trail maintenance job is about protecting and preserving trails for public enjoyment and ensuring their long-term sustainability.
Type: Part-time
About
Russell Lands Inc.
Russell Lands is a company of unique vision, diversity, and service. We understand that maximizing the Lake Martin experience goes beyond just offering world-class homes and neighborhoods, but rather creating experiences and companies that help people solve problems and celebrate relationships. Russell Lands has also established a proud tradition of promoting conservation and thoughtful use of Lake Martin's natural resources. Russell Lands is dedicated to ensuring Lake Martin's beauty and recreation for years to come. For more information, go to www.RussellLands.com.