Description:

To provide for and ensure a reasonably safe biking and hiking environment. To provide on mountain first aid assistance and evacuation, biker safety, search and rescue support, trail work, lift evacuation, equipment maintenance, and other assigned duties. Each task requires a high level of decision making.

Essential Functions:

• Use prior experience as a bike patroller to mentor new staff and ensure high levels of performance for existing staff.
• Identify workplace hazards and guide staff to make decisions with personal safety as a priority.
• Assist with decisions and protocols during high level emergency responses.
• First aid assessment, treatment, and evacuation.
• Perform detailed incident investigation, preservation of the facts, forms, and records.
• Establish a reasonably safe biking and hiking environment, e.g. trail checks, trail openings/closings, early season preparation, maintenance, obstacle marking, signage, sweeps, and special race preparation.
• Be familiar with the ski and bike terrain at Panorama Mountain
• Be responsible for evacuation of people from the lift in the event of a breakdown.
• Enforcement of Bikers Responsibility Code
• Visible to the public for biker information.
• Preventive maintenance inspections of equipment
• Ability to respond to varying emergency situations.
• Accountability for the care and safety of the biking and sightseeing public as well as all other Panorama Mountain Village employees on the mountain.

Experience/Requirements:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• 80+ hour OEC preferred (or 80+ hour OFA level 3 or Wilderness First Aid certificate).
• Previous patrolling experience or previously employed by Panorama Mountain Village.
• Leadership experience and previous medical training an asset.
• Must be able to lift and carry bikes or construction equipment weighing up to 60 lbs.
• Other tasks include operating trucks/ATVs on the mountain, trail maintenance.
• Must be able to hear and speak clearly in order to use radios and telephones.
• Must be an advanced biker or better.