What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nordic Ski Instructor position at SUGAR BOWL SKI RESORT?
Royal Gorge Cross Country, Sugar Bowl's Nordic Ski area, is looking for ski instructors to teach adult, children and private lessons. At the discretion of the Ski School Director, the Instructor will help in Rentals and assist with lesson organization.
Why Sugar Bowl?
Sugar Bowl Resort has been proudly independent for over 80 years and is one of the oldest ski resorts in California. Situated atop beautiful Donner Summit, Sugar Bowl has a storied past with ties to Austrian ski culture, Hollywood and Walt Disney. This special community helped bring skiing to “sunny California” since December 1939. Since then, it continues to attract adventurous winter sports enthusiasts a like.
Who you are
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily
- Possess ability to communicate information, instructions and commands if need be to clients in a clear and friendly fashion
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of students
- The Ski Instructor must be capable of working in harsh High Sierra weather conditions
What you will do
- Provide excellent customer service to customers, employees and business partners
- Teach adult and children ski classes in cross country techniques
- Assist in the rental room outfitting customers with equipment
- Maintain current knowledge of teaching and skiing techniques
- In the absence of the Ski School Director, organize group lessons and assign instructors to them
- Assist ski school students with proper ski equipment use and proper ski techniques
- Perform trail maintenance e.g. tree limbing, brush cutting and marking trail hazards and detours
- Help when needed at POS locations with customer rental and retail questions
- Assist with snow removal in the winter months including shoveling and clearing snow from walkways, equipment and other areas as necessary
- Assist with checking of season pass holders
Winter Benefits
- Employer sponsored 401k plan after 1000hrs (and 1-yr)
- Excellent professional and training development
- Free ski and tubing passes for employees
- Free ski passes for dependents
- 50% off food at our cafeterias
- Free group ski and snowboard lessons for employees
- Excellent discounts on competitive and non-competitive Snow Sports Programs
- Employee discounted lift tickets for family and friends
- Lift ticket discounts at tons of resorts including 24 destinations thanks to the Mountain Collective
- Hotel discounts
- Employee ski reciprocal programs
Sugar Bowl Resort believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate against its employees or applicants because of race, color, hair, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender orientation, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship, veteran status, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, upgrading, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.
