Job Details
Job Location
South Shore Region - Hingham, MA
Position Type
Seasonal
Description
About the Position/Program:
Come work on the Trustees South Shore properties! Your hard work will be rewarded with views of Boston Harbor and knowing that you are helping make our properties accessible to thousands of people every year!
Position Summary
Our seasonal staff plays an integral role in ensuring that our visitors enjoy our extraordinary places. With the change to warmer temperatures, we experience an influx of visitors of all ages and backgrounds who want to explore and be inspired by our properties.Our South Shore properties include a farm, the sweeping Olmstead designed landscape that is World's End, and many woodland properties with peaceful walking trails.
The Trustees are seeking Stewards to assist with the care of its properties on the South Shore. The South Shore properties areWorld's End and Weir River Farm in Hingham, MA; Whitney and Thayer Woods, Bancroft Bird Sanctuary, Turkey Hill in Hingham and Cohasset, MA; Norris Reservation in Norwell, MA; Two Mile Farm in Marshfield, MA; andHolmes Field in Plymouth, MA. Stewards perform routine maintenance on these properties, caring for the fields, trails, gardens, structures, and other natural and cultural features. Day to day operations include mowing reservation entrances, trimming brush, maintaining walking trails, mowing cultural landscapes, invasive species removal and more.The pay for the position is $16/hour.
Essential Functions:

• Maintaining parking areas, fences, and trails
• Routine maintenance of landscapes including mowing fields and lawns, tree and shrub care, and brush removal
• Maintaining buildings and structures using carpentry tools, paint brushes, and other hand tools
• Removing trash and litter
• Watering newly planted trees at World's End

• Helping with seasonal events
• Other duties as assigned with or without accommodation

Qualifications
Qualifications:

• Experience operating ride on mowing equipment preferred
• Must be 18 or older
• Ability to lift 50 lbs.
• Ability towork outdoors in a variety of weather conditions.

Other Requirements:

• Pass adriving record check and criminal background check.

Work environment -You will primarily be working outside with power equipment. This can be noisy, so we require hearing protection as well as other PPE to be worn while operating equipment.
Physical demands -This is a physically rigorous job which requires operating equipment and hand held power tools on uneven rough terrain.
Position type and expected hours of work -This is a full-time position, 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday. Typical working hours are 7:30 am to 3:30 pm but occasion help is required outside these hours for events and programs.
About The Trustees:
The Trustees places are open to all, and we thrive by involving as many people as possible in what we do. Founded in 1891 by a group of visionary volunteers, we preserve, for public use and enjoyment, properties of exceptional scenic, historic, and ecological value in Massachusetts. We aim to protect special places for future generations to enjoy in perpetuity. We have helped protect more than 50,000 acres, including 27,000 acres on more than 120 reservations that are open to the public. We are a non-profit conservation organization funded and supported entirely by our visitors, supporters, volunteers, and our 100,000 Member households
Our seasonal staff plays an integral role in ensuring that our visitors enjoy our extraordinary places. With the change to warmer temperatures, we experience an influx of visitors of all ages and backgrounds who want to explore and be inspired by our properties. Sandy beaches, wooded trails, cultural gardens, historic homes, community supported agriculture-there are many ways for visitors to discover and explore The Trustees, and just as many opportunities for seasonal employees to make each visitor's experience special.
The Trustees offers competitive compensation, as well as the opportunity to be part of a dedicated team across the Commonwealth who love the outdoors and the distinctive charms of New England, and who believe in celebrating and protecting our special places, for everyone, forever. Pay ranges from $16.50-$17.50/hr
The Trustees is a proud equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any protected status including, but not limited to, age, race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, nation of origin, religion, or disability status and strongly encourages applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ applicants. We aspire to reflect and effectively serve the residents and communities of Massachusetts, who are at the core of our mission.
Our commitment to advancing the organization's vision for this work may be found here: Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion and Equity