What are the responsibilities and job description for the NPS Historic Preservation Training Center - Historic Stewards Intern position at Conservation Legacy?
Position Title: NPS Historic Preservation Training Center - Historic Stewards Intern
Conservation Legacy Program: Stewards Individual Placements
Site Location: Frederick, MD
Terms of Service:
- Start Date: Flexible between 3/1/2025 - 4/1/2025
- Pay: Competitive wages based on experiences starting at $23/hour
- Length: Term of position is 12 weeks; full-time 40 hrs/wk- potential overtime
Purpose:
Stewards Individual Placements (STE) provides individuals with service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources. Participants work with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits building institutional capacity, developing community relationships, and supporting ecosystem health.
This opportunity is brought in partnership with the NPS Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) which is dedicated to the safe preservation and maintenance of national parks or partner facilities by demonstrating outstanding leadership, delivering quality preservation services, and developing educational courses that fulfill the competency requirements of service employees in the career fields of Historic Preservation Skills, Risk Management, Maintenance, and Planning, Design, and Construction.
HPTC utilizes historic preservation projects as the main vehicle for teaching preservation philosophy and building crafts, technology, and project management skills. Our experiential learning approach emphasizes flexibility in addressing the unknown conditions encountered during the project and ensures that the goals of preservation are met.
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Reconstruct, restore, or rehabilitate wood structures by performing work on such elements as structural framing rafters, doors, windows, floors, staircases, trusses and beams, interior and exterior trim, and roofing where accuracy, spacing and fit are essential and structural soundness is important.
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Select appropriate materials and use instruments and tools such as rulers, try squares, levels, transits, framing hammers and traditional carpentry tools.
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Replicate ancient and highly skilled forms of craftsmanship using specialized tools.
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Perform work on historic structures that includes (but is not limited to) carpentry, such as the restoration of a building or portion thereof to a specific period of time; wood crafting, such as the reproduction of historic trim and moldings or the technically complex work of constructing decorative finish work; timber framing and log work such as the reproduction of hand-hewed timbers or log replacement in roofs or walls; roofing which requires the reproduction of historic roofing materials in composition, shape, color, and texture, including wood shingles and shakes, slate, ceramic, or asphalt, and their installation.
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Compute curves, arcs, tangents, and possess advanced knowledge of carpentry skills utilizing accepted trade methods and techniques.
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Read, interpret and apply building plans, specifications, blueprints, sketches, working drawings and building codes.
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Repair, reconstruct, restore, or rehabilitate masonry structures by performing work such as stabilizing or constructing foundations, repainting walls, chimneys, fireplaces, and other building elements and stabilizing or restoring engineered structures such as bridges, stone retaining walls, using a combination of modern and historic techniques.
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Execute masonry work to replace missing or deteriorated mortar and loose stonework.
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Form, pour and finish concrete work in accordance with accepted trade practices.
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Use of hand and power tools such as brick or napping hammer, brick or skill saw in cutting and shaping brick and axe, pick, chisel, and hammer in cutting or shaping stone.
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Select appropriate brick or stone to match historic materials, repointing using historic tools to reproduce unique tooling marks, selection and preparation of mortars to match historic mortars in color, texture, and composition; plastering to match historic plasters used on interior and exterior walls; and painting, including surface preparation, and mixing of paints to approximate color and texture of historic paints.
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Assist with the inspection of historic structures/sites/landscapes onsite to determine physical condition and the type and amount of maintenance required to maintain them in the proper condition.
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Make technical recommendations to higher-level specialists and professionals regarding type of preservation treatment required to maintain ongoing and/or preventative maintenance.
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Perform other trades work as needed for less than 20 percent of the time such as: journeyman level painting, building and maintaining of backcountry trails; operate motor vehicles; and use of small loaders to load and unload materials, etc.
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Other general craft skills that may be required include reproduction of historic hardware and other architectural metals, use of epoxies or other wood consolidants, and similar skills needed to preserve, repair, restore, or reconstruct the features of structures listed on or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
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Moderate to heavy physical effort is required for this position, including occasional lifting or handling of objects over 50 lbs using proper techniques.
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Standing or kneeling for long periods and will be required to climb ladders, work from scaffolding or platforms, work on uneven or angled surfaces such as a roof, and/or be able to work in confined spaces.
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Ability to stoop, bend, kneel, climb and walk in all manners of environmental conditions such as rain, mud, and extreme heat or cold.
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Personal transportation will be required to report to job site.
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Ability to travel for one or more weeks at a time, at times with short notice
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Flexibility to work outside of traditional hours may be required
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Ability to commit to full duration of the position.
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United States citizen, national, or legal resident.
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Must be 18-30 years of age (35 for Veterans with DD- 214)
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Training and Mentorship in Traditional Trades Techniques
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Safety training (vehicle, trailer, situational awareness, power tools, etc.)
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Opportunity to travel to different National Park Service sites.
Physical Requirements:
Conservation Legacy is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to perform essential functions. Some positions may require periodic overnight travel, non-traditional hours, ability to move across varied terrain, use program-specific tools and a range of technology on an infrequent or frequent basis. Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. Ability to safely drive an organizational vehicle may also be required for some positions. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during application or recruiting process, please send a request to the hiring manager.
Time Requirements:
- Typically, this position is expected to serve 40 hours/week with possibility of overtime, but exact service schedules may vary depending on site and project availability.
- Extended travel to project sites may be necessary.
Evaluation and Reporting:
As an intern, performance will be evaluated on whether the member has completed the required number of hours, the member has satisfactorily completed assignments, and if the member has met other performance criteria that were clearly communicated at the beginning of the term of service.
Reporting requirements include, but are not limited to, bi-weekly timesheets and accomplishment tracking.
Supervisor Name and Contact Information:
Kevin Record, Program Coordinator
krecord@conservationlegacy.org
681.666.3621
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodations due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to the hiring manager.
Salary : $23
