What are the responsibilities and job description for the Bike Park Skilled Operator position at Angel Fire Resort?
Bike Park Skilled Operator
Angel Fire Bike Park is in search of a skilled machine operator with experience and passion to join our team in building and maintaining the 60 miles of trail in the bike park. Our bike park includes a variety of green, blue, and black trails that need regular re-building and maintenance. The ideal candidate will have experience operating skid steers, dozers, and excavators, and experience building quality bike park trails for riders to enjoy. This position requires self-motivation and a vision for exceptional trail design.
Base Pay: Depends on experience
Location: Angel Fire Resort Mountain
Employee Type: Hourly, Non-Exempt
Job Category: Seasonal Full Time (Could transition to Grooming and Snowmaking for the winter season)
Leadership Responsibilities: No
Required Certs or Licenses: Valid Driver’s License
Attendance: Regular, predictable, punctual, and in-person attendance is essential
Estimated start date: Mid-May
Min Age: 21 years old
Environment: This is a physically demanding outdoor position. Must be able to stand/walk for entire shift and regularly lift/carry 75lbs. This is a do-whatever-it-takes job that requires the ability to work in varied environments
Housing Link: https://www.angelfireresort.com/work-for-us/employee-housing/
Benefits Link: https://www.angelfireresort.com/work-for-us/employee-benefits/
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
(other duties may be assigned)
- Safely operates machinery such as excavators, skid steers, dozers
- Uses hand tools such as rakes, picks, shovels
- Safely operates chainsaws
- Construct new single-track trails
- Maintain existing trails
- Re-build and create new sections for existing trails
- Create designs with Bike Park Manager
- Understand gravity-fed mountain bike trail layout, erosion mitigation, durability construction
- Have a keen eye for trail safety design on all trails and features construction (creating safe trails for all skill levels)
- Self-motivated individual who takes pride in constructing awesome bike trails with amazing flow
- Create trails with the skill level of the rider in mind: greens, blues, black diamonds
Qualifications:
At least 3 years’ experience working on a trail crew running excavators, skid steers, dozers at a gravity park.
- Experience with creating new machine-benched trail with quality jumps, berms and features
- Must be able to ride a downhill mountain bike at an advanced level, maintaining control in all conditions and on all runs.
- Must have experience with hand tools, heavy machinery, and chainsaws as well as basic woodworking and maintenance skills.
- Must have a valid driver’s license with driving record insurable under resort insurance.
About Angel Fire Resort:
Angel Fire Resort is a top year-round mountain resort destination in New Mexico. The resort is situated at over 8,600′ elevation in the Southern Rocky Mountains, 30 minutes east of Taos and has views of Wheeler Peak, the highest point in New Mexico. Employees come from all over the world for our winter and summer seasons, which makes for a unique and diverse team to work with. Angel Fire strives to offer the best value and choice for family outdoor recreation activities to its members, guests and visitors–including skiing, snowboarding, tubing, sledding, golf, mountain biking, golf, disc golf, zip lines, tennis, fishing, hiking, premium RV sites, dining and more.