Youth Crew Member - Trails and Trades Program

The Youth Crew Members are outdoors, conservation, trail building, or other skilled trades profession enthusiast, focusing on work experience, job readiness skills, and exposure to various outdoor skilled trades. Youth Crew Members will have the opportunity to work together to complete trail projects and participate in skilled trade learning workshops. Members will be introduced to trail building and maintenance, forestry, carpentry, masonry, construction, and more.

1. Full participation in all projects and trades workshops.
2. Uses traditional trail skills, restoration techniques, carpentry skills, and physical labor including the use of hand tools while working cooperatively with crew members to complete an array of projects across the Park District, including trail construction and maintenance, building rock stairs, carpentry, invasive vegetation removal, and restoration of impacted sites.
3. Cleaning, maintaining, and organizing tools, equipment, and the worksite.
4. Models proper safety practices, respectful behavior, and professionalism.
5. Completes training and adheres to Cleveland Metroparks trails standards, practices, and expectations.
6. Keeps direct supervisor promptly informed of key/significant issues or concerns.
7. Carries out duties and responsibilities in a safe and efficient manner to maintain a safe work environment and surrounding area for oneself, co-workers and public. Responds to hazardous situations and/or potentially unsafe conditions by taking corrective action as capable and promptly notifying supervisory personnel.
8. Performs related duties as assigned or apparent.