MONOCACY NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD – Maintenance and Resource Management Internship

The intern’s primary duties will be to assist in the cyclic and deferred maintenance of landscapes throughout the battlefield. Projects may include work in and around mowed areas, woods, grass fields, fences, gravel roads, culverts, buildings, and trails. Interns may use equipment such as mowers, power tools, hand trimmers, or other hand tools to accomplish tasks.

The intern could also assist with custodial duties, set-up and tear down for special events, exotic vegetation removal, and the rebuilding of fencing. During the internship work may include loading/unloading supplies and materials from trucks and trailers; moving furniture; removing and setting signs; painting signs; trimming trees and shrubs; picking up litter; controlling exotic vegetation; digging ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact; planting trees, shrubs, and wildflowers; filling and leveling holes in damaged roads; moving heavily loaded wheelbarrows and hand trucks; cutting trees with an axe or chainsaw to open historic views; stacking heavy logs, lumber, and sacks of cement; and performing other duties requiring similar judgment and comparable heavy physical effort.

The intern may be involved in a variety of assignments, and working with intermediate and journeymen level staff activities and in support of office programs to gain practical work experience. Interns may be involved in some special laboring assignment(s) which require knowledge of several steps, phases, or detailed procedures and a practical knowledge of project requirements and objectives (e.g., preparing ground, laying sod, planting flowers or shrubs, and using drawings to establish a pattern and/or design, or similar labor endeavors which require the knowledge and ability to complete various steps, phases or procedures to accomplish a complete assignment).

Interns will be based in either the Maintenance Division or Resource Management Division at Monocacy National Battlefield and will be directed by the park’s Chief of Maintenance or Chief of Resource Management. All tools, equipment, PPE (other than work boots), and transportation while on duty will be provided.