What are the responsibilities and job description for the NPS Historic Preservation Training Center - Monument Section Intern position at Conservation Legacy?
Position Title: NPS Historic Preservation Training Center - Monuments Section Intern
Conservation Legacy Program: Stewards Individual Placements
Site Location: Frederick, MD
Terms of Service:
- Start Date: 3/31/2025, Preference given to applications received by 3/1/2025
- Pay: $20/hr
- Length: Term of position is 20 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.
- Hands-on historic preservation work on historic monuments, memorials, and historic structures
- Learning basic historic preservation activities such as masonry and metal cleaning, removing failed or deteriorated mortar joints, repointing mortar joints with compatible mortar mixes, and bronze conservation treatment.
- Transporting materials to job sites, assisting with project set-up, including setting up site protection and scaffolding
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Clean masonry and bronze elements for monuments and historic structures by safely utilizing pressure washer and chemical treatment.
- Use hammers and chisels to carefully remove mortar joints and repoint mortar joints
- Use of hand tools, mixing and installing mortar
- Hot and cold waxing bronze sculptures
- Use a propane torch and apply wax to a heated sculpture
- Mixing patching material and installing patching material, mixing crack injection grout and installing crack injection material
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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 : $20
