Job Description
Overview: Our Ski Patrollers will monitor mountain areas for injured, reckless, and lost skiers and snowboarders, and for skiing hazards; provide first aid and other necessary assistance to skiers and snowboarders; enforce company skiing safety regulations; complete ongoing training and emergency procedures practice; and perform various trail maintenance tasks. As a guest-focused organization, a crucial part of each team member's job is to attract and retain guests.
Responsibilities:
- Stand by awaiting emergency calls. Assist with dispatch duties.
- Patrol assigned mountain areas regularly to ensure that all trails are properly marked, to identify injured, lost, out of control and reckless skiers and snowboarders; to identify existing or potential skiing hazards and to monitor and report on weather/skiing conditions, skiing traffic and the like.
- Stop reckless skiers or snowboarders and enforce company skiing safety regulations, including taking of appropriate disciplinary action. Assist with educational efforts related to safe skiing/riding.
- Perform a variety of trail maintenance tasks, check trails for hazards, missing signs; put up signs and mark hazards; cut brush; pack down and shovel snow; put up fences and close trails when necessary.
- Perform trail opening and closing procedures as assigned.
- Search for missing persons and equipment.
- Patrol organized racing activities and other special events.
- Administer emergency care/first aid to injured skiers and snowboarders; assess condition of and stabilize patient, render appropriate treatment, such as splinting, transport to base area in a toboggan.
- Transport uninjured skiers or snowboarders who are having difficulty or have lost or damaged equipment to base area by toboggan or snowmobile.
- Answer questions, give directions, etc.
Qualifications:
Must be able to ski or snowboard all terrain in all types of conditions. Medical skills and certifications such as EMT, or OEC certificate or greater. Plus CPR/AED.
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