PARK RANGER - 37000875

About the position

The Park Ranger position at Tomoka State Park involves resource management, visitor services, protection, and maintenance of the park's natural and cultural resources. The role is essential for ensuring the enjoyment and safety of visitors while preserving the ecological integrity of the park.

Responsibilities

• Explains facilities and services provided for public use, enjoyment, and education; meets visitors, answers questions, provides information and directions.
• Attempts to resolve visitor complaints while maintaining good public relations.
• Provides natural and cultural history interpretive programs and services via tours, walks, and campfire programs.
• Implements ecological burning plans for fire-type plant communities; recognizes communities, control burning techniques, and maintain fire lanes.
• Implements vegetation and wildfire management plans; recognizes communities and maintains optimum species control via natural and chemical means.
• Implements site restoration projects such as reforestation and erosion control.
• Implements water resource management plans.
• Participates in the execution of all facets of prescribed fire.
• Constructs, maintains, and repairs small buildings, fences, trails, service roads, fire lanes, boardwalks, campsites, picnic sites, boat ramps, docks, and all other necessary facilities.
• Maintains cleanliness of grounds and facilities.
• Prepares forms and reports on a wide range of subjects including fees, receipts, visitor use, visitor contacts, patrols, wildlife sightings and population counts, accidents, crisis and miscellaneous incidents, vehicle, boat, and equipment operations, property records, p-cards, purchase orders and requisitions.
• Answers telephone, operates radio equipment, personal computer, and maintains logs.
• Answers correspondence and maintains park files.
• Ensures park rules are enforced pertaining to all natural, historical, and archaeological facilities and resources and use thereof for enjoyment of the visitor.

Requirements

• Valid driver's license.
• Successful completion of background/fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of annual moderate pack test.
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions/directions.
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
• Ability to perform physical labor and lift 40 pounds.
• Ability to operate radio equipment and perform cash register transactions.
• Ability to deal with visitor inquiries in a tactful and courteous manner.
• Ability to understand and apply rules, directives, policies, laws, and regulations.
• Ability to prepare reports and work independently with minimum supervision.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in resource management and visitor services.
• Knowledge of ecological burning and vegetation management techniques.

Benefits

• Annual and Sick Leave benefits
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year
• State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Tuition waivers