Park Technician 1

Holland America-Princess (Holland America Dawson City Inn); Sitka (AK); On-site; USD 52,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks & Outdoor Recreation, is recruiting for a Park Technician 1 in Sitka. The role focuses on maintaining park facilities and trails, leading corps and volunteer programs, and delivering visitor services while operating field equipment in a dynamic Southeast Alaska environment.

The position emphasizes safety, community education, and hands-on stewardship of Alaska’s natural and cultural resources, with travel to remote sites as needed and

Qualifications

• This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.
• Please ensure your application demonstrates how you gained the required competencies and that you possess them.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve park facilities and trails via routine repairs and janitorial tasks.
• Lead and facilitate Alaska Conservation Corps and Volunteers In Parks programs, including tasks and training.
• Provide visitor services, educational outreach, and interpretive programming to park visitors and the community.
• Operate and care for state equipment including trucks, ATVs, boats, snow machines, and power tools.
• Perform administrative tasks supporting field operations such as grant writing, timekeeping, purchasing, filing, and reporting.

Skills

Managing Human Resources

Building and Construction

Mechanics

Job description

Job Description

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of

Parks & Outdoor Recreation,

is recruiting for a

Park Technician 1 in Sitka.

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

Please check our

residency definition

to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing:

Maintain and improve park facilities and trails by performing routine repairs, building and grounds maintenance, vegetation clearing, inspections, and janitorial services to ensure safe, clean, and functional recreation areas.

Lead and facilitate the Alaska Conservation Corps and Volunteers In Parks programs, including recruitment, hiring, training, and assigning daily tasks.

Provide visitor services, educational outreach, and interpretive programming to park visitors and the local community.

Operate and care for state equipment, including trucks, ATVs, boats, snow machines, and power tools.

Perform administrative tasks that support field operations, including grant writing, timekeeping, purchasing, filing, and report writing.

Mission and Values/Culture:

The Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation is committed to providing outdoor recreation opportunities while conserving and interpreting Alaska’s natural, cultural, and historic resources for the benefit of present and future generations. The Division works to ensure that Alaska’s parks remain accessible, safe, and well-managed, balancing public use with long-term stewardship. By promoting responsible recreation, protecting significant landscapes and cultural sites, and fostering public understanding of Alaska’s lands and waters, DPOR strengthens public appreciation and respect for these shared resources. This careful balance between access and conservation ensures that Alaska’s state parks continue to serve the public interest and remain resilient and sustainable over time.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

You will play a hands-on role in stewarding some of Alaska’s most iconic landscapes, making a visible difference in the safety and quality of state park facilities.

The work offers variety every day—ranging from trail projects to visitor support to field operations—keeping the job active, engaging, and meaningful.

You’ll gain valuable skills in equipment operation, maintenance, natural resource stewardship, and leadership while working alongside dedicated park professionals.

Our team culture emphasizes collaboration, problem-solving, and pride in serving the public and protecting park resources.

As a State of Alaska employee, you’ll enjoy reliable benefits, opportunities for advancement, and meaningful work that supports outdoor recreation across the state.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

This position is based at Halibut Point State Recreation Site in Sitka, Alaska. Situated on Baranof Island, Sitka is one of Alaska's oldest communities offering a rich blend of Alaska Native culture and Russian-American history. Surrounded by mountains and forests, this scenic coastal community offers a small-town feel, essential amenities, and abundant outdoor recreation opportunities. The role is field-oriented, with daily work involving operating vehicles and equipment, maintaining outdoor trails and facilities, interacting with visitors, and leading the volunteer and Alaska Conservation Corps programs in all weather conditions. Travel, often by boat, snowmachine, ATV, or small plane, is an expected part of this position with periodic overnight stays in remote park sites or other Southeast Alaska communities.

We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following position-specific competencies.

Managing Human Resources

Plans, distributes, coordinates, and monitors work assignments of others; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner.

Building and Construction: Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools to construct objects, structures, and buildings.

Mechanics: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their design, use, benefits, repair, operation, and maintenance.

Minimum Qualifications

Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.

Please ensure your application

(through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options for how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

Accountability

Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient, and cost-effective manner.

Interpersonal Skills

Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.

Oral and Written Communication

: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Problem Solving

Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations.

Self-Management

Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or experiencein the operations of natural resource management or outdoor recreation providing assistance, information, and services to customers, tourists, or the general public that included some clerical/administrative/technical tasks; and/or leading, instructing, individuals in outdoors adventure activities.

Definitions

“Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

“Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

“Training” and “education” in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.