Terrain Park Ranger

5 months ago

North Vancouver, Canada Northland Properties Full time

Proud to be 100% Canadian-owned, Northland Properties' are recognized as one of the most trusted names in hotels, restaurants, resorts, sports, construction, and asset management. Our well-known and loved brands have been bringing people together to celebrate unforgettable experiences across Canada, the US, Ireland, and the UK for over 50 years. As Canada’s fastest-growing hospitality group, we believe the foundation of our continued success is our people and their ability to take great care of our guests.

**Job Title**: Terrain Park Ranger

**Location**: North Vancouver

**Department**: Mountain Operations

**Reports to**: Manager, Terrain Parks

**Role Status**: Full-time, seasonal - hourly

ABOUT US
Grouse Mountain offers a challenging and enjoyable work environment with a world of career opportunity. Our team is dedicated to Grouse Mountain's renowned excellence and its continued growth as Vancouver's premier mountain resort. In exchange for employee excellence, we offer a professional atmosphere, fantastic growth opportunities, unlimited outdoor recreation (including skiing and snowboarding) an inspiring setting and many unique employee privileges.

JOB SUMMARY
The Terrain Park teams consist of designers, builders, park groomers, and day crew. They are responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the takeoffs, landings, and manmade features of the terrain park. This is an exciting and innovative job that helps bring guests to the Grouse Mountain. Terrain Park features at Grouse Mountain includes rails, boxes, kinked rails, recycled lift towers, wall rides, A-frames, wooden features, barrels, quarter pipes, and spines. Making these features safe is hard work because the snow deteriorates every single day. Takeoffs must be hand groomed many times a day. Besides monitoring the features of the terrain park, the terrain park rangers are also responsible for the layout and flow of the park. The flow of the park is an important aspect of park safety. Without proper flow, skiers and snowboards will cross paths and it could result in serious injuries. After the basic features are in place, terrain park crews perform daily maintenance to ensure safety. They’re constantly fix landings, marking hazards with bamboo and ensuring all relevant signage is properly in place. Terrain Park crews are the official testers the jumps to ensure they are reasonable for Grouse Mountain’s clientele. They test the flow of the rail gardens and hit the sequential jumps. These test runs ensure the safety of the guests and are important for risk management.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Documenting and coordination of any incidents/accidents that may occur in the terrain park. These include all appropriate documents related to terrain park incidents: 1040 log sheets, Feature Checks, Grouse Incident Reports and terrain park specific incident reports.
- Jump measurement procedures (NSAA).
- Installing & resetting features by hand.
- Rebuilding and shaping takeoffs for jib features.
- Ensuring all jumps are measured and recorded to our guidelines.
- All jumps to be cut and shaped to our “Shaping” checklist.
- Cut & reinstall broken feature panels using power tools.
- Ensuring that all fencing, signs, and feature markers entrance are properly setup at all times during operating hours, and that they are properly taken down for grooming and maintenance.
- Keeping hourly/daily traffic counts for all terrain park zones for statistical purposes, also monitoring traffic to watch out for those skiers/riders who should not be in the terrain park due to their ability level.
- Assisting with all events throughout the season including pre-event promotion in the Terrain Park, event setup, maintenance, and breakdown.
- Rotate on overnight builds throughout the season. (Minimum 1 year park experience)

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
This position reports directly to the Terrain Parks Manager, with no direct supervisory responsibilities.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ABILITIES
- Possess strong skiing/riding ability.
- Terrain Park maintenance experience preferred.
- Possess strong understanding of terrain parks.
- Ability to work mornings, night shifts and graveyard shift. On either 8 hour or 10 hours shifts throughout the season.
- Ability to lift up to 40 lbs.
- Ability to work in adverse weather conditions.
- Ability to follow direction, work with a team as well as complete tasks with mínimal supervision.

WORKING CONDITIONS
Terrain Park Rangers perform most of their duties outdoors and may work in all different kinds of weather conditions. Hours of operation are weather dependent. Due to the nature of the business, this position requires flexibility in terms of your work schedule. A variety of work schedules may include rotation of shifts, day/evening shifts, and weekends and statutory holidays. Shifts require standing for long periods of time, lifting, twisting, shoveling and other forms of manual tasks.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

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