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Snowshoe Mountain seeks staff for seasonal on-mountain work with competitive hourly pay and housing options. The team will hire, train, and supervise lifeguards, ensuring safety and exceptional guest services at the resort.
Position requires CPR/BLS/AED certifications with on-the-job training available; includes perks like free skiing, medical coverage, and retirement benefits. Seasonal schedule includes mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
Housing: Affordable on-mountain employee housing available for rent.
Work Location: 10 Snowshoe Drive, Snowshoe, WV 26209
Pay: $16.50 per hour
Start Date: The end of November and beginning of December
Seasonal: Seasonal work involves temporary employment tied to specific times of the year.
Schedule: May require working early mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays
Adventure Awaits: Explore the stunning Snowshoe Mountain and enjoy all the outdoor activities it has to offer while you work.
Make Connections: Meet guests and employees from across the country and around the world and provide them with exceptional hospitality that makes Snowshoe their home away from home.
Interviewing, hiring, and training lifeguards to the Ellis & Associates ILTP standards, tracking lifeguards, CPR/First Aid certifications, practicing of lifeguard certification, AED, First Aid, CPR Certification, continuing education of Lifeguard Instructors Certification through Ellis & Associates ILTP, creating training seminars, provide learning resources, and provide feedback /coaching, documenting all training hours according to Ellis & Associates Standards, training the supervisor to accomplish organizational vigilance amongst staff, by building upon their leadership skills, training staff on operational guidelines, equipment, vehicles and facilities, sales and technical knowledge, etiquette, personal interaction guidelines, and resort information, assisting with performance evaluations, scheduling one‑on‑one meetings with staff ordering supplies and inventory as needed, working with front‑line staff and guests to ensure problems are dealt with quickly and professionally, creating schedules for supervisors and other staff members, forecasting budgets and expenses to coincide with fiscal year budgets, checking and approving time in Workday or other related databases, responsible for the safe keepings, and regular counts of the allotted banks used in the Shavers Lake retail store, forecasting and building upon the expansion of Shavers Lake area, by using creativity and building partnerships with a variety of businesses that coincide with those forecasted capital projects, ensuring all equipment and facilities are in good working order and visually appealing, responsible for the overall look of Shavers Lake and all activities associated within prioritizing and delegating tasks and projects, monitoring resort guest levels and activity participation to better suit future needs, soliciting business and guests through communication with community partners, internal guests, marketing venues and positive word‑of‑mouth, using established service recovery guidelines and philosophies to accommodate guests, adhering to vehicle, equipment and facility maintenance schedules using daily checklists to monitor condition of equipment, facilities, and vehicles, adhering to department and company security policies, procedures and guidelines, monitoring daily cash reports, general knowledge and experience with power tools, and minor construction, attending department, division and inter‑departmental meetings, and sharing company information with staff; completing necessary duties required for the daily operation of the business such as, but not limited to doing laundry, answering phones and guest hospitality, etc.
High School Diploma or GED
Lifeguard, CPR, BLS, and AED certifications (On job training will be provided)
All Information above is subject to change at any time.
Snowshoe is an equal opportunity employer.
Snowshoe, when you first hear the name, instinctually everyone's thoughts immediately settle on winter sports. While it's true that in 1974 Snowshoe Mountain nestled its roots in West Virginia's Cheat Mountain range as a small ski town, we've grown into quite the outdoor adventure mecca. With 11,000 acres of explorable terrain, a legendary bike park, three unique ski areas, and activities like paddle boarding, RZR tours, snowmobiling, snowtubing, music festivals, and international competitive events; the options are endless for anyone willing to embrace our Forever Wild lifestyle. Here on the mountain, we believe to provide the best guest experience you must live that experience yourself...so we work hard, play harder, and get paid doing what we love!
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