Office Staff/Gift Shop Clerk
Office employees are representatives of Schmeeckle Reserve to all who walk through the visitor center doors. Their primary duty is to greet visitors and provide them with information. Staff must be positive, friendly, and outgoing.
Employees also are responsible for selling items in the gift shop, a store specializing in natural and cultural merchandise.
Specific duties include:
- Information desk: Greet visitors and provide information about Schmeeckle Reserve, Green Circle Trail, Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame, UWSP, and Stevens Point.
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Gift Shop clerk: Sell merchandise with a cash register, maintain and clean store, help with inventory.
- Maintain the
visitor center: Clean, organize, fill brochures, feed and clean captive animal aquariums.
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Meeting room: Take reservations, set up chairs and tables for groups, make coffee, provide information.
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Interpreter's Handbook Series: Take phone orders for books sold.
- General office work: Make copies, send faxes, answer and direct phone calls, bulk mailing, typing.
Trails and Facilities Crew Members
Trails and Facilities employees are responsible for the upkeep and land management of the natural area. During the spring, summer, and fall, most hours will be spent outdoors on the trails or working with habitat areas. During winter, most hours will be spent in the basement workshop constructing wooden signs or maintaining the visitor center.
Specific duties include:
- Maintain and construct trails: wood chipping, pruning, lopping, clearing brush, litter clean-up, tree removal
- Repair and construct boardwalks, bridges, benches, and other structures
- Work in land management projects: invasive species removal, habitat restoration, flora and fauna identification and research
- Construct
cedar signs: woodworking, routing, carving, painting
- General facility maintenance: cleaning, painting, repairing
Trails and Facilities staff report to the Trails and Facilities Coordinator.
Artists/Painters
Artists, painters, and woodworkers work in several small businesses that support Schmeeckle Reserve. Our staff sculpts wildlife out of wood, paints natural landscapes, and provides illustrations for publications. Creativity is essential, and past experience with realistic nature-oriented art is preferred.
Specific duties include:
- Painting: Paint detailed, realistic wildlife, plants, and habitats on cedar signs.
- Carving: Route, carve, and sculpt realistic natural scenes into wood.
- Illustration: Create sketches and illustrations of natural and cultural history topics for signs, publications, merchandise, marketing, and other media.
- Maintenance: This position will also help with some maintenance duties, depending on current projects.
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