Niabi Zoo Maintenance Services - MRA Recruiting Services
Coal Valley, IL
About the Job
Let's put your passion for wildlife to work while making a daily impact in your community and the world! Looking for a place to grow and develop your appreciation for animals, the natural world, and conservation? Niabi Zoo has many opportunities for you!
Opportunities in Maintenance Services Include:
Maintenance Laborer
Train Conductor
Animal Care staff perform a variety of duties in providing guest services in particular operations, visitors, and staff. Niabi Zoo is searching for those individuals who have a positive attitude, a love for animals, and a desire to provide exceptional customer service while engaging in meaningful customer encounters.
The positions mentioned above promote and fulfill the zoo's mission by performing the daily operations of the animal care areas of Niabi Zoo. Niabi Zoo is in search of individuals who can provide clear, consistent, and direct zoo-related information and general assistance with exceptional customer service.
Niabi Zoo is open every day from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm April 15-October 27
Opportunities in Maintenance Services Include:
Maintenance Laborer
Train Conductor
Animal Care staff perform a variety of duties in providing guest services in particular operations, visitors, and staff. Niabi Zoo is searching for those individuals who have a positive attitude, a love for animals, and a desire to provide exceptional customer service while engaging in meaningful customer encounters.
The positions mentioned above promote and fulfill the zoo's mission by performing the daily operations of the animal care areas of Niabi Zoo. Niabi Zoo is in search of individuals who can provide clear, consistent, and direct zoo-related information and general assistance with exceptional customer service.
Niabi Zoo is open every day from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm April 15-October 27
Exciting perks that you will get to enjoy while employed!!
Free admission and parking
20% off Gift Shop and Concessions
20% Educational programs
Free ride and experience tickets
Free attendance to Lunch and Learns and more!
Maintenance Laborer Duties
- Provide guests with general information about the zoo, regarding feeding times, events, etc.
- Clean, stock, and maintain all Zoo restrooms.
- Empty and collect all trash and recycling throughout the Zoo.
- Maintain Zoo grounds through landscaping work such as mulching, weeding, trimming, and mowing.
- Perform minor upkeep and repair projects throughout the facility.
- Assist with train ride loading, unloading and operations as needed.
- Assist full-time Maintenance Team members with various projects as needed.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Collect tickets and oversee the loading/unloading of train passengers.
- Operate the train ride safely and enjoyably, including monitoring passenger behavior to ensure safety.
- Inspect trains and tracks regularly and notify maintenance staff of any irregularities.
- Ensure cleanliness of train and depot continually.
- Provides information to guests including, but not limited to zoo hours of operation, prices/fees, regulations, programs, exhibits, special events, classes, directions, lost and found items and zoo animal collection.
- Assist with train ride loading, unloading and operations as needed.
- Must be 16 years of age
- Must have a valid driver's license
- Must have reliable transportation to work
- Position involves the regular, and at times sustained, performance of heavier physical tasks such as walking over rough or uneven surfaces, bending, stooping, working in confined spaces, and lifting or carrying moderately heavy (20-50 pound) items and occasionally very heavy (100 pounds or over) items
- May involve the complex operation of gasoline, electric, or diesel-powered machinery or shop equipment requiring the manipulation of multiple controls, fine adjustments, or both; or the sustained operation of items such as a keyboard or adding equipment.
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