Supervisory Park Ranger (Protection)

Summary

These positions are located within the Division of Visitor and Resource Protection at both Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park. The Grand Teton position serves the Jenny Lake District. The Yellowstone National Park positions serve the Lake District and the Old Faithful District.

Major Duties

• Provides leadership, management, oversight, and supervision to highly visible and diverse visitor and resource protection programs.
• Participates in all aspects of employee supervision including performance planning and appraisals, employee recognition, and employee counseling.
• Responsible for on-the-job safety, health, and wellness of subordinate workforce.
• Sets work goals and ensures all employees receive required training in a timely manner.
• Identifies operational requirements and makes recommendations to the Chief Ranger regarding programming, budgeting, training, administration, and evaluation of operations; and schedules patrols to maximize visitor contact with special consideration to problem areas.
• Responsible for the full spectrum of visitor and resource protection programs; ensuring appropriate enforcement of all applicable federal and state laws; coordinates and conducts detection, investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of violations.
• Ensures a high level of emergency preparedness and response capability, and coordinates initial responses to emergency medical, search and rescue, and other all-risk incidents.
• May serve as an Incident Commander or Operations Chief on high level incidents.
• May participate in wildland and/or structural firefighting.
• Promotes interagency cooperation and coordination with local and national agencies which may include other divisions within the park, concession operations, local state and county law enforcement, other federal agencies, park neighbors and private landowners, and other park partners or non-government cooperators.

Physical Demands

Duties involve performing physically rigorous assignments, often in isolated outdoor environments, frequently while exposed to severe weather. Dangerous persons must be physically confronted, subdued, and apprehended many of whom are known to carry weapons. Prisoners must be kept under physical restraint during transport and processing. Criminal investigations often must be carried out without regard to fixed work schedules, days off, or opportunities for proper rest or nutrition. Duties require manual dexterity with free motion of finger, wrist, elbow, shoulder, hip, and knee joints. Arms, hands, legs, and feet must be sufficiently intact and functioning in order for incumbent to perform the duties satisfactorily. Sufficiently good vision in both eyes, with or without glasses, is required. Near vision, corrected with glasses, must be sufficient to read printed material the size of typewritten characters. Hearing without aid, as measured by an audiometer, must not exceed 35 decibels at 1000, 2000 and 3000 Hz levels. Physical fitness requirements must be met prior to and on a continuing basis during employment. There is a high-stress component to much of the incumbent's work.

Working Conditions

Some work is performed in an office setting; most of the work is performed outdoors. Work is performed at various hours of the day and night and for prolonged periods during emergencies. Frequently exposed to high risk and potential danger in law enforcement and emergency types of situations requiring use of a wide range of personal protective gear (some of which may be uncomfortable, hot, or inconvenient to wear), adherence to safety procedures, and other precautions. Long periods of surveillance work may be required in cramped, or unpleasant locations and under unpleasant conditions. Emergency law enforcement operations require entry into hazardous environments; exposure to dangerous persons, animals, and substances; and potential exposure to infectious diseases.