Jobs
Temporary Employment
Temporary and seasonal jobs are available at most state parks and recreation areas, with varying durations of employment to include more opportunities during our peak season. A variety of opportunities are available, including park attendants, lifeguards, office assistants, naturalists, maintenance workers, and grounds keepers.
All seasonal positions at Grandfather Mountain State Park are listed below. If none are listed, there are no seasonal positions available. Please check the top of the park's web pages for a green alert that lists which job applications are currently being accepted by park staff. If there is no green alert, that means the park has no vacancies; visit our general Jobs page to find currently open positions at other state parks.
Seasonal Positions Available
Job Description: Position includes, but is not limited to the following activities:
Position's primary responsibility is to answer phone calls, talk to visitors at the office, monitor radio calls from the park and update the parks' website with ALERT information, if necessary. Actual start date 5/4/2021, end date 10/23/26. This employee will assist the Office Assistant in routine office duties to include answering phones and making contact with walk-in visitors. This employee will be able to answer visitor questions regarding hiking trails, campsites and general park information. This employee may assist in entering attendance data, filing, collecting mail, inventorying retail items and office supplies, folding park maps, checking in and out campers in CRS, and any other duties as assigned by the OA or park superintendent.
This employee will assist field staff in operations duties in the field if needed or if office duties are completed. Field work may include all maintenance duties associated with the Profile Trailhead to include cleaning restrooms, picking up ground litter, trimming road shoulders and all associated grounds work. Field work may include all forms of trail work, maintenance projects and natural resource management projects as assigned. This employee may use hand tools and power tools. This employee may be exposed to all weather and trail conditions.
Permanent Employment
All permanent job listings are posted through the North Carolina Office of State Human Resources Online Job Application System.
Please note that most permanent employment opportunities have a very short posting period of only a few days. As such, permanent employment opportunities are not posted in this page.