Trail Crew Lead

 
SoHo Snowmaking, Grooming & Trail Maintenance Lead
Soldier Hollow Nordic Center | Midway, UT
Soldier Hollow Nordic Center is hiring a Snowmaking, Grooming & Trail Maintenance Lead for the upcoming winter season. This is hands-on, outdoor work that shapes the surface elite athletes and local families ski, tube, and snowshoe on all winter long. If you want to run snowmaking systems and groomers on a world-class venue and lead a small crew through the busiest season of the year, keep reading.
Schedule, Pay & Benefits
•    Full-time, Seasonal position for the winter season
•    Flexible schedule — expect early mornings, late nights depending on weather conditions and the ability to make snow
•    Pay range: $21-$28 an hour, DOE
•    Benefits & Perks: 
o    Free friends-and-family vouchers for venue activities like tubing and the bobsled experience
o    Discounts on retail, concessions, and sport programs
•    Potential for Ski pass
Why This Role
You'll be working for a team with years of experience building and maintaining a world-class Nordic venue, people who rely on each other, teach each other the technical craft of snowmaking and grooming, and take pride in what they build together. Your manager and crew have spent years developing the know-how behind this 31-kilometer trail system, and they're looking for someone eager to learn it hands-on, not from a manual. The payoff is tangible: finish a shift, throw on skis or snowshoes, ride the terrain you helped create, or bring your own friends and family down the tubing hill you groomed that morning.
Job Requirements
Must-Haves:
•    2–3 years of verifiable experience operating snowcats or making snow
•    At least 18 years of age
•    Valid driver's license and insurability to drive on-road vehicles
•    Ability to work outdoors in any condition
Nice-to-Haves:
•    Prior supervisory or lead experience
•    Experience operating heavy equipment (Piston Bully groomers, ATVs/UTVs, tractors, excavators)
•    Basic mechanical/electrical troubleshooting skills
Day in the Life
Your day starts before sunrise, checking weather data and equipment before the temperature window closes. You'll move snow guns, hoses, and pumps into position, then run a groomer to shape trail surface for that day's skiers, racers, or events. Between tasks, you're walking trail sections, checking for hazards or drainage issues, and radioing updates to your crew. Some nights you're running snowmaking equipment under the lights until conditions shift. Every shift ends with something visible: a groomed trail, a ready tubing lane, a base built one layer closer to race-ready.
About You at Soldier Hollow
You'd rather learn a skill by doing it than reading about it, from running a Piston Bully to troubleshooting a snow gun in the cold, getting better each week (Grit). You take pride in doing the job right, because athletes and visitors are counting on the same trail (Excellence). You lead and follow well, because when everyone pulls their weight the work becomes easier (Collaboration). And you know the tubing hill you groomed this morning is where a family from Heber Valley makes a memory this weekend (Community, Impact). If that sounds like you, you belong on this crew.
Ready to help build and maintain one of the most unique Nordic venues in the country? This is hands-on work with real impact, on the trail and in the community, and this is your season. Apply now through this job posting or visit our careers page: https://utaholympiclegacy.org/careers/
 

Salary : $21 - $28