Preservationist (Seasonal)

National Park Service; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 53.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The National Park Service is seeking a journey-level Preservationist to perform a range of preservation trade work on historic structures and landscapes.

You will plaster, roof, carpentry, and finish work, identify restoration needs, and operate heavy equipment to move materials. This role supports preservation goals across park sites and requires practical trade skills and attention to historic integrity.

Aufgaben

• Perform journey-level preservation trade work to build, maintain, restore and preserve historic structures and landscapes.
• Perform plastering, roofing, carpentry, and finishing tasks to professional standards.
• Identify, retain, and preserve historic roofs, paintings, and finishes from restoration periods.
• Operate heavy equipment to move materials such as sand, gravel, earth, and coal as required.

Jobbeschreibung

Open: October 1, 2026 — Closes: October 7, 2026

Summary

This position serves as a journey-level Preservationist within a specific organization of the National Park Service (NPS). The primary purpose of this position is to perform a variety of journey-level preservation trade work needed to build, maintain, restore, and/or preserve historic structures and landscapes. Such structures and landscapes include but are not limited to historic buildings, monuments, memorials, statues, markers, signs, tablets, artillery pieces, etc.

Major Duties

As a Preservationist, you will perform the following duties: Performs a variety of journey-level preservation trade work needed to build, maintain, restore, and/or preserve historic structures and landscapes. Performing plastering duties to include mixing, applying, and finishing plaster surfaces. Performing roofing duties to include locating leaks, selecting the correct repair methods, and installing new roofs. Identifying, retaining, and preserving historic roofs, paintings, carpentry, and plastering from the restoration period, including special finishes and colors. Removes damaged paint and finishes. Constructs, installs, repairs, and modifies wood and wood substitute structures and items requiring close tolerance fit and structural soundness. Constructs and repair building frames, rafters, concrete forms, walls, staircases, door and window frames, interior and exterior trim. Performs final finishing of cement and concrete. Fabricates and repairs simple metal items and ferrous, ferrous-alloy, and nonferrous metal parts. Operates one or more types of heavy equipment (e.g., graders, tractors with bulldozer or angledozer blades, front-end loaders, backhoes, trench diggers, large industrial tractors with pan or scraper attachments) to push, pull, pile, or load materials such as sand, gravel, earth, and coal.