Employment

There are no additional seasonal positions to be filled this summer.

 

Installing Monitor PlotThe Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest offers a variety of employment opportunities, including permanent, summer seasonal, and volunteer positions. To read more about the minimum qualifications for federal employment, check the Office of Personnel Management website.

Application Process

Permanent and seasonal hiring with the Forest Service is conducted on a national scale using a standardized application process through a web-based program called AVUE. Go to AVUE to apply for a position. Click here for instructions on how to complete your application. If you encounter problems, call the AVUE HelpDesk at 800-407-0147.  Be sure to copy down the Open Continuous Register number (OCR #) and location for the job your applying for before you start the application process. You can find both these items on the outreach notice below.

Some of the advantages applicants have when applying online are:

  • Their application is made available for consideration immediately.
  • Receive e-mail notification on the status of their application.
  • Receive e-mail notification prior to their work registration update expiring.
  • An e-mail account can be established when creating your profile.
  • Ability to make changes to their personal information.
  • Personal information can be applied automatically to each announcement.
  • Electronic documents can be attached, i.e. transcripts, DD 214, etc. 
     

If you do not have access to the Internet, you may contact our office toll free at 1-888-882-2300  Monday through Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Mountain Standard Time.

Permanent Employment Opportunities

Current permanent job openings with the Forest are not available on this website at this time. In the meantime, refer to USAJobs to look for jobs on the Forest and across the US Forest Service.

For detailed information about the many rewarding career fields at the US Forest Service, visit the "Careers" webpage.  Or check out all the Employment webpages to find information on working for the Forest Service, special student programs, and volunteering.

Seasonal Employment Opportunities

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Each year, the Forest hires for a variety of seasonal positions for the summer field season. The field season typically runs from May to September.  Information on seasonal jobs will be available next February.  Seasonal work responsibilities include stream surveys, fish and wildlife surveys, trail building, fire fighting, campground maintenance, fence construction and maintenance, vegetation surveys, road maintenance, and heavy equipment operators. 

Once you've identifed a job, make sure you copy down its Open Continuous Register number (OCR #) and location as listed on the outreach notice. This will make your application process go much smoother.

To go to the US Forest Service's Centralized Temporary Employment web page.

Features

Wildland Fire Job Opportunities

You will notice that the greatest number of our seasonal jobs are fighting fires. Seasonal jobs in firefighting include working on a local unit handcrew, on a helitack/helirappeling crew, a Hot Shot Crew, as a smokejumper, or on an engine crew. Remember, these are tough jobs usually performed in primitive, backcountry conditions.


Outreach Notices

This page has listings of temporary positions for 2012.