NPS Historic Preservation Training Center Sleeping Bear Dunes Maintenance Action Team Intern (Historic Stewards)

Position Title: NPS Historic Preservation Training Center – Sleeping Bear Dunes Maintenance Action Team Intern

Conservation Legacy Program: Stewards Individual Placements

Site Location: Empire, MI

Terms of Service:

• Start Date: 1/6/2024

Purpose:

Stewards Individual Placements (STE) provides individuals with service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources. Participants work with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits building institutional capacity, developing community relationships, and supporting ecosystem health. STE in partnership with the National Park Service are seeking an intern who will assist in the restoration of Historical structures. The service member will gain hands-on experience while contributing to keeping our nation treasures in tacked for many generations to come. This position offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience while working on historic structures in our National Parks.

The Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) is dedicated to providing diverse and underrepresented youth with a professional experience and exposure to technical fields, helping the National Park Service to recruit and develop entry-level talent to build a more technically skilled and inclusive workforce. While also providing meaningful and relevant technical internships for racially and ethnically diverse students and military service members. The goals of this program include, supporting high-priority projects in parks, regional offices, and Washington support offices. Increasing relevancy, diversity, and inclusion in the NPS workplace. While establishing a pipeline for converting talented and diverse students, recent graduates, and service members into career positions in the NPS.

The HPTC utilizes historic preservation projects as the main vehicle for teaching preservation philosophy and building crafts, technology, and project management skills. Our experiential learning approach emphasizes flexibility in addressing the unknown conditions encountered during the project and ensures that the goals of preservation are met.

The Maintenance Action Team Intern will serve as a member on a traveling crew stationed out of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Project work will require long travel assignments to parks and historic sites across the Midwest Region.

Description of Duties:

• Installing cedar shake, metal shingle roofs, and Architectural shingle roofs,
• Repairing porches
• Working on log home structures
• Building roof systems
• Sanding floors
• Installing windows and doors
• Installing siding.

• Travel and responsibilities associated with working for long periods in travel status.

Qualifications:

• United States citizen, United States national, or a lawful permanent resident alien
• Must be 18-30 years of age, maximum 35 for Veterans with DD-214
• Ability to commit to a 26-week experience of combined training and hands-on work
• Has received a high school diploma or equivalency certificate; or has not dropped out of elementary or secondary school
• Agrees to provide information to establish eligibility and to complete a National Service Criminal History Check.
• Ability to pass a US Secret Service background check and access clearance for project site
• Prior experience in trades or construction is preferred, but not required.
• Open to current students and recent grads of historic preservation programs, previous TTAP members, and other applicants with background education or experience in historic trades
• Flexibility to work outside of traditional hours may be required
• Climb ladders, work from scaffolding or platforms, work on uneven or angled surfaces such as a roof, and/or be able to work in confined spaces.
• Ability to stoop, bend, kneel, climb and walk in all manners of environmental conditions such as rain, mud, and extreme heat or cold.
• Interest in traditional trades or historic preservation
• Driver’s License & personal transportation will be required to report to job site
• Willingness to learn preservation skills and safety protocols.
• Operate as a good team member within work crew and follow daily direction.
• Follow HPTC’s project agreement and safety plan.
• Be respectful of all members or crew and supervisor staff

Physical Requirements:

Conservation Legacy is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to perform essential functions. Some positions may require periodic overnight travel, non-traditional hours, ability to move across varied terrain, use program-specific tools and a range of technology on an infrequent or frequent basis. Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. Ability to safely drive an organizational vehicle may also be required for some positions. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during application or recruiting process, please send a request to the hiring manager.

Time Requirements:

• Typically, this position is expected to serve full time 40-50 hours per week, but exact service schedules may vary depending on travel and project details. Possibility of 10 hours of weekly overtime dependent on assignment.
• This position involves frequent regional travel to project sites.

Orientation and Training:

• Member will receive an orientation that includes training on a variety of preservation techniques.
• OSHA 10
• Opportunity to travel to different National Park Service sites.
• Opportunity to learn trade secrets from master craftsmen
• Opportunities to shadow colleagues in different roles to gain a better understanding of the organization and develop new skill 

Benefits:

• Pay rate: $18/hr
• Overtime Eligible
• Public Land Corps Hiring Authority Eligibility – must meet 640 hours of service
• Opportunity to travel to different National Park Service sites.
• Opportunity to learn trade secrets from master craftsmen

Evaluation and Reporting:

As a Stewards intern, performance will be evaluated on whether the member has satisfactorily completed assignments, and if the member has met other performance criteria that were clearly communicated at the beginning of the term of service.

Reporting requirements include, but are not limited to, bi-weekly timesheets and accomplishment tracking.

Supervisor Name and Contact Information:

Kevin Record

Stewards Program Coordinator

681.666.3621

krecord@conservationlegacy.org