Maine Backcountry Off-grid Hut Crew
Posted by Maine Huts & Trails on 10/20/2022
Job Basics
Industry Sector: Outdoor
Job Categories: Hospitality & Lodge Staff
Company Type: Recreation
State: ME
City: Kingfield
Country: United States
Required Experience: 0 - 1 year
Contact Name: Wolfe Tone
Contact Phone: 2073408084
Business Phone: 2072652400
Job Type: Seasonal Full Time
Salary: $16-$18/hr
Required to Relocate: Yes
Required to Travel: No
Employee May Telecommute: No
Job Seeker Must Live Within:
Job Description & Requirements
Hut Crew Member
Hut Crew are responsible for providing a welcoming, friendly, and clean environment for overnight guests and day visitors at Maine Huts & Trails' backcountry huts. The position blends backcountry hospitality, green building design and operation, conservation education, and other Similar fields. Successful applicants will have a proven commitment to customer service, the ability to work as part of a team, and the ability to maintain high standards in an isolated setting, Hut staff work 40-50 hours per week, with a variety of morning, mid-day, and evening shifts. Hut staff are paid competitive hourly wages. Room and board are provided for the season.
Hut Crew Responsibilities
- Customer Service: welcoming guests and visitors and providing information
- Cooking: preparing and serving three hearty meals a day on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and select winter Sunday/Monday holidays (New Year's, MLK, President's)
- Housekeeping: cleaning and sanitizing food service and dining areas, washing dishes, sweeping, mopping, washing windows, and cleaning restrooms
- Retail sales: store, maintaining accurate retail sales records and inventories
- Operation and maintenance of facility: including solar array, propane generator, battery bank, wood boiler, composting toilets
- Provisioning: conducting scheduled inventories of food, supplies and retail. loadingand unloading supplies, and properly storing items
- Stewardship: Implementing energy conservation and environmentally soundpractices in daily operations. Educating guests to promote outdoor ethics.
- Other related duties as required
Qualifications
- Prior experience in hospitality, food service, or facility maintenance
- Exceptional customer service skills; a friendly, outgoing manner; and strongcommunication skills
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to perform work with minimal supervision and to work well under pressure
- Enthusiasm for living in a remote wilderness setting Interest in outdoor recreation, especially hiking, biking, paddling, skiing and snowshoeing
- ServSafe certification or other food handling certificate preferred
- CPR/First Aid certification desirable, Wilderness First Aid preferred
- Physical abilities required: ability to stand, sit, bend at waist, lift and carry up to 50pounds. All hut staff must be willing and able to ski or hike to the hut-there is no vehicle access
Dates
Winter Season: Mid-December (December 17) - End of March
