Laborer (MVO) (Seasonal)

National Park Service; Dover (TN); On-site; USD 19,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

The National Park Service in the Southeast Region seeks a Laborer (Motor Vehicle Operating) to perform recurring laboring, grounds, and basic maintenance duties and to operate motor vehicles and equipment to transport personnel, materials, supplies, and equipment. The typical seasonal entry-on-duty period is March–November, but can vary due to weather, project needs, or funding.

Anticipated entry on duty: March–May 2027.

Responsibilities

• Operating light duty motor vehicles such as pickup trucks and sedans to transport personnel, supplies, materials, equipment, and tools throughout the park.
• Maintaining buildings, grounds, roads, and trails with power equipment and hand tools.
• Cleaning and maintaining equipment and performing janitorial duties for buildings.
• Loading and unloading supplies from trucks and trailers, and moving items with wheelbarrows/hand trucks.
• Moving furniture and signs, painting picnic tables and signs, raking and watering lawns, and trimming trees and shrubbery.
• Cutting heavy trees with ax or chainsaw, stacking logs and cement sacks.
• Digging ditches and trenches, breaking up pavement or concrete, and pouring concrete/asphalt as needed.
• Operating vehicles on federal/state/country roads and city streets in all traffic conditions following applicable speeds.

Job description

Open: November 2, 2026 — Closes: November 10, 2026

Summary

The primary purpose of the Laborer (Motor Vehicle Operating) is to perform recurring laboring, grounds, and basic maintenance duties and to operate motor vehicles and equipment to transport personnel, materials, supplies, and equipment. The typical seasonal entry-on-duty period for Seasonal Staffing Office-Southeast Region is March-November, but can be variable during these months due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding. Anticipated Entry on Duty: March - May 2027.

Major Duties

• Operating light duty motor vehicles such as pickup trucks, sedans, flatbed trucks, etc., up to 10,000 pounds to transport personnel, supplies, materials, equipment, and tools throughout the park.
• Maintaining buildings, grounds, road, and trails by operating heavy power equipment and hand tools such as lawn mowers, portable snow blowers, shovels, rakes, lawn edging equipment, tar pots, culvert steamers, brush chippers, power compactors, power saws, chainsaws, rock bars, picks, axes, crosscut saws, single-jack hammers, etc.
• Cleaning and maintaining equipment.
• Performing janitorial duties for buildings.
• Loading and unloading supplies and materials from trucks, trailers, dollies.
• Moving heavy items using wheelbarrows and hand trucks.
• Moving furniture; removing and setting signs; painting picnic tables and signs; raking and watering lawns; trimming trees and shrubbery; picking up litter; cleaning fire pits, etc.
• Cutting heavy trees with an ax or chainsaw, stacking heavy logs, lumber, and sacks of cement.
• Digging ditches and trenches with picks and shovels where soil is hard and compact and must be graded or sloped.
• Breaking up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixing and pouring concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; filling and leveling holes in damaged roads.
• Operate vehicles over Federal, state, and country roads and city streets in all traffic conditions following applicable speeds.