Antietam National Battlefield - CCCWV Maintenance Interns

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Antietam National Battlefield - CCCWV Maintenance Interns: The intern's primary duties will be to assist in the cyclic and deferred maintenance of landscapes throughout the battlefield including the National Cemetery. Landscapes may include work in and around mowed areas, woods, grass fields, fences, gravel roads, culverts, buildings, and trails. Interns may use equipment such as mowers and hand trimmers or hand tools to accomplish tasks. The intern will also assist with custodial duties, set-up and tear down for special events, exotic vegetation removal, and the rebuilding of historic fencing. During the internship work may include loading/unloading supplies and materials from trucks and trailers, moving furniture, removing and setting signs, painting picnic tables and signs, trimming trees and shrubbery, picking up litter, digging ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact, filling and leveling holes in damaged roads, moving heavily loaded wheelbarrows and hand trucks; cutting heavy trees with axe or chainsaw; stacking heavy logs, lumber, and sacks of cement, and performing other duties requiring similar judgment and comparable heavy physical effort. Duties may also include performing entry level masonry tasks under the direction of the park's mason. The intern may be involved in a variety of assignments, and working with intermediate and journeymen level staff activities and in support of office programs to gain practical work experience. Interns may be involved in some special laboring assignment(s) which require knowledge of several steps, phases, or detailed procedures and a practical knowledge of project requirements and objectives (e.g., preparing ground, laying sod, planting flowers or shrubs, and using drawings to establish a pattern and/or design, or similar labor endeavors which require the knowledge and ability to complete various steps, phases or procedures to accomplish a complete assignment). This internship will be based under the Division of Maintenance but will be shared with the Division of Resources at Antietam National Battlefield and will be directed by the park Maintenance Supervisor. All tools, equipment, PPE (other than work boots), and transportation while on duty will be provided. Other Duties: -Will be assigned over the course of the position as needed. This project will be based under the Facility Management Division at Antietam National Battlefield and will be directed by the Maintenance Worker Supervisor.