Gardener

Historic Skagway Inn

• Operate an organic kitchen & cut flower garden: planting, weeding, cultivating, harvesting, and transplanting plants.
• Preparing planting beds by weeding, fertilizing, composting and watering.
• Maintaining garden walkways.
• Other light outdoor maintenance around the exterior of Inn. 
• Follow garden plan to provide products to Chef for kitchen and cut flowers for Housekeeper.
• Propagate, cultivate, and harvest horticultural specialties, such as  flowers, greens, vegetables and other edible or flowering plants.
• Also general groundskeeping on business-related properties (Employee Housing). 
• May be combined with other duties to achieve 40 hours per work week. 
• May be considered for leading tours of up to 25 people in the garden.  (Early morning averaging 25 hours per week) 
• Exact jobs to be filled will be specified in job offer; the preponderance of work will be in the garden. 
• Job operates May through mid August; season can be extended with other job duties until about 27 September.

*The complete job description will be provided at the time of interview.  

While Southeast Alaska is a remote wilderness, we are visited by about 1.25 million cruise passengers with enjoying the Alaskan wilderness on their bucket list. The environs boasts many beautiful hiking trails and other outdoor pursuits. Check out our CoolWorks profile for more information on who we are and what we are about.