Big Sky Resort’s Bike Park is seeking an experienced machine operator for trail building. Must be a motivated individual to help continue building 40+ miles of bike park trails. The bike park is expanding fast and Big Sky Resort is looking to add new flow trails and tech trails of all difficulties as well as maintain and update existing trails.

• Must be familiar with bike park trail designations and difficulty ratings, and be able to build trails to each specification
• Must be able to operate excavators of various sizes, in a safe and productive manner.
• Maybe requested to operate front-end loaders, skid steers, all terrain fork lifts, and bulldozers in a safe and productive manner.
• Must be able and willing to use hands tools such as rakes, picks, and shovels when requested.
• Must be able to safely operate a chainsaw
• Must have a keen eye for trail flow and creating safe features
• Will create trail and feature designs with the Bike Park managers
• Will be requested to build new trails as well as re-building/updating existing trials, and creating new trails sections

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience trail building with excavators is required
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience with creating new bench cut machine trails with jumps, berms, and features is required
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience operating a chainsaw is preferred
• Must have experience using hand tools such as rakes, picks, and shovels
• Must have a keen eye for trail flow
• Experience operating other heavy equipment such as front-end loaders, skid steers, all terrain fork lifts, and bulldozers is preferred.
• Must be able to ride a mountain bike at an intermediate level or higher.