Guide, Cook, Baker, Dishwasher, Host, Cleaner, Maintenance
Work Arctic
Alaska
Alaska's Arctic - Midnight Sun - Aurora Borealis - Lodging/Meals At No Cost - $2,000.00 Bonus
Job Starts: Mar 13, 2024
Work Arctic
Work Arctic
We operate three remote camps in Alaska's Arctic: Yukon River Camp, Coldfoot Camp, and Deadhorse Camp. All three camps meet the important food and lodging needs of Arctic travelers. We take pride in cooking delicious handcrafted meals, ensuring absurd cleanliness, and welcoming our guests to the Arctic wilderness we love with a spirit of soulful hospitality that is genuine and authentic.
Our Camps are located along Alaska's arctic wilderness highway, the Dalton Highway. The Dalton stretches north 500 miles from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay. Along the highway, you’ll encounter the Yukon River, the Arctic Circle, the Brooks Mountain Range, and the Arctic Coastal Plain before the road’s termination at the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
- Location
- Alaska
- Season
- Summer, Fall, Winter, and Year Round
- Staff size
- 5 - 35, depending on location
- Housing
- Whether included in the compensation package or provided at a cost, housing is provided for staff.
- Meals
- Provided
- Cell phone service
- Some, ask for details
- Internet access
- Intermittent
About Work Arctic
Alaska Arctic's location at the top of the world means that we have 24 hours of sunlight, and almost 24 hours of darkness during the winter. What does this mean? We experience some of the most extreme seasonal changes on earth.
Arctic Midnight Sun Season [spring/summer]
By mid-March, the sun returns to Alaska’s Arctic. This is the beginning of our midnight sun season: meaning, an Arctic landscape bathed in 24 hours of daylight. The famed 24-hour-day brings with it robust recreational travelers and work crew activity at each of our Camps.
As a bonus, in addition to experiencing the summer midnight sun, those candidates hired will have the opportunity to experience the aurora borealis during fall--from late August to early September.
We will begin formal recruitment and hiring for positions at ALL camps for the 2020 season in late November 2019. Again, an ideal summer season candidate will be available to start work during the month of May.
Arctic Aurora Season [fall/winter]
August arrives in Alaska’s Arctic: by mid-month, daylight hours will be shortening, and “aurora season” returns to our region. Our Camps’ unique location under the Aurora Oval offers aurora-watching opportunities that are unrivaled anywhere else on earth. The chance to view nature’s most amazing light show first hand brings a growing number of travelers to our Camps from around the world.
Ideally, a successful “winter season one” candidate will be available to begin work in mid-September to early-October (or, even earlier), and will be able to work through 15 Jan 2020, or beyond.
About our camps
Yukon River Camp: This camp borders the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge on the banks of the legendary Yukon River.
The Yukon, the world’s fifth largest river, drains the entirety of Alaska’s Interior--the vast inland region delineated by Alaska’s two major mountain ranges. The Yukon River’s 2,000-mile length boasts the world’s longest salmon spawning migration.
In the present day, the Yukon River’s winding path is populated by remote villages whose residents depend on its rich natural resources to sustain subsistence lifestyles.
Coldfoot Camp: Neighboring the Gates of the Arctic National Park north of the Arctic Circle in the Brooks Mountain Range, Coldfoot sits just sixty miles south of the northernmost extent of the tree line. Today, the Central Brooks Range is--and always has been--one of the most remote and unpeopled wilderness areas left on earth.
Deadhorse Camp: Deadhorse neighbors the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Everything is extreme about life on the Arctic Coastal Plain: severe winter weather conditions give way to a summer marked by a 63 day, 23 hour, 40 minute timeframe where the sun never drops below the horizon.
The near-24 hours of sunlight highlighting the earth's most dramatic seasonal transition is the remarkable return of abundant wildlife [birds/waterfowl, caribou, musk ox, grizzly bear] to the Arctic Coastal Plain each summer.
Arctic Base Camp: Located in Fairbanks, the "Arctic base" team provides the support services critical to making the everyday operations of our arctic Camps a reality.
Fairbanks, a warm and welcoming city situated on the southern edge of Alaska's Arctic wilderness, offers Arctic Base Camp coworkers the perfect launching pad for exploring ALL of Alaska's Arctic.
The Employee Experience
In the spirit of honest and transparency, you deserve to know that we don't use the "e-m-p-l-o-y-e-e" word in our work culture.
Instead, we call ourselves coworkers. And those talented individuals who we are fortunate to call our coworkers work with us, not for us.
As for our coworker experience, you might ask: why work Arctic?
WILDERNESS 24/7: It’s a paid working vacation. Not a mere visit to Alaska's arctic wilderness, but an unparalleled opportunity to live it.
AURORA BOREALIS: Viewing nature's most impressive light show is absolutely a "bucket list" experience. The absolute magnificence of the lights can only truly be understood when witnessed firsthand.
MIDNIGHT SUN: 24-hours of daylight, day after day after day. Indescribably surreal and unbelievably cool; also wonderful for hiking and exploring the surrounding wilderness.
GREAT COWORKERS: Great wilderness attracts great coworkers—perfect teammates for a season of life, work, and play.
HOUSING/MEALS: No rent, no food bills, no commute.
EARN IT, SAVE IT: Which is to say, we’re in a wilderness environment where the options for spending money are as scarce as the options for wilderness exploration are robust.
Yet, "working arctic" is not for everyone.
Many (even most) Alaska work first-timers may find our camps to be too remote.
For these persons, a Denali Park-type experience might be a better fit: a couple thousand fellow co-workers create a spring-break like social atmosphere, restaurants and bars are in close proximity, Walmart and movie theaters are just two hours away.
Other Alaska-work first-timers might have an expectation that their work days will be spent in a glamorous structure built by a Marriott or a Hilton.
This is not our camps.
Our camps are what they are.
Simple and unglamorous structures, staffed by great coworkers, serving guests who are thrilled to find the very thing that led them to a decision to explore off the beaten path in the first place: authentic hospitality, and a real, un-contrived atmosphere.
Ideal Candidate
Yukon River Camp, Coldfoot Camp, and Deadhorse Camp are owned and operated by a small Alaska-based company.
We recognize it is the quality of our coworkers that provides the critical ingredient to the creation of a great hospitality experience for our guests.
A great workplace starts with shared values. So, it’s our goal to attract coworkers who believe that:
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Professionalism and integrity are not innate characteristics but daily decisions;
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that because we are what we repeatedly do, excellence is not an act but a habit;
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a great workplace cannot be achieved if it is not built on a foundation of positive, trust-based coworker relationships--an impossible task without the shared values of respect and joy.
Many great coworkers have found their way to our Camps.
Many coworkers return to our Camps for consecutive seasons, while others simply never leave, having found themselves at home in Alaska's Arctic.
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Northern Alaska Tour Company Guide
Work Arctic
Fairbanks, Alaska
Experience Alaska's Arctic and Alaska's Dalton Highway!
Job Starts: Apr 15, 2024
Current Job Openings
- Prepare guide supply boxes for each departing experience as needed.
- Obtain knowledge of guest needs/dynamics for each departure/arrival.
- Develop daily guest service logistics plan.
- Communicate with guide and others on logistics associated with each departure/arrival.
- Operate 15-passenger van to shuttle guests to/from terminal as required.
- Soulfully greet each departing/arriving guest upon his/her arrival at terminal.
- Deliver a pre-experience expectations orientation for each departing group of guests.
- Complete revenue sheet for each departure.
- Perform cleaning-related activities at the terminal.
- Clean and organize incoming food coolers.
- Work on food prep activities as time allows.
- Soulfully greet walk-in guests and appropriately respond to their needs.
- Execute retail-related activities as required.
- Assist with reservations activity as required.
- Assist with ramp-related activities as required.
- Assist with purchasing/expediting activities as required.
- Assist with other tasks or activities as required.
- Genuinely cares about and enjoys serving people.
- Likes to work hard [not just in concept, but in reality!!!]
- Thrives on work requiring serious flexibility and multi-tasking.
- Views favorably the idea of having a physical work component to their work day.
- Is excited about the opportunity to spend a summer embracing Alaska's Arctic --- and, having the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships with the guests we serve.
- Prepare guide supply boxes for each departing experience as needed.
- Obtain knowledge of guest needs/dynamics for each departure/arrival.
- Develop daily guest service logistics plan.
- Communicate with guide and others on logistics associated with each departure/arrival.
- Operate 15-passenger van to shuttle guests to/from the terminal as required.
- Greet each departing/arriving guest upon his/her arrival at the terminal.
- Deliver a pre-experience expectations orientation for each departing group of guests.
- Complete the revenue sheet for each departure.
- Perform cleaning-related activities at the terminal.
- Clean and organize incoming food coolers.
- Work on experience food prep activities as time allows.
- Greet walk-ins and appropriately respond to needs.
- Execute retail-related activities as required.
- Assist with reservation activity as required.
- Assist with ramp-related activities as required.
- Assist with purchasing/expediting activities as required.
- Assist with other tasks or activities as required.
- You enjoy working hard with satisfying results!
- You would absolutely enjoy sharing with visitors your enthusiasm for the land and peoples that are Alaska's Arctic!
- You want to work with a team of coworkers passionately committed to working together to create a high-quality AND safe travel experience in Alaska's Arctic!
- You want to work in a positive work environment with coworkers that are supportive of each other's personal goals!
- You would embrace having a physical work environment that is the splendor of Alaska's Arctic!
- You would appreciate the personal growth resulting from the challenges accompanying the independence and responsibility associated with guiding or coordinating a group!
- 1 to 4 days per week [1 day during slower periods, 4 days during peaks]
- 12 to 18 hours per day [dependent upon the excursion guided]
- 18 to 50 hours per week [dependent upon full time or part time status]
- Use computer reservation system to accept freight and mail.
- Screen incoming freight for hazmat.
- Weigh/sticker incoming freight [must be able to lift 50 lbs].
- Collect guest payments for accepted freight
- Respond to phone inquiries regarding the current status of specific freight items.
- Perform cleaning activities in the freight office and hangars.
- Assist with other tasks or activities as required.
- genuinely cares about and enjoys serving people;
- likes to word hard [not just in concept, but in reality!!!];
- thrives on work requiring serious flexibility and multi-tasking;
- views favorably the idea of having a physical labor component to their work day;
- thinks aviation is cool;
- loves living in Interior/Arctic Alaska and is very excited about the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships with the people and communities we serve.
- Load and unload aircraft for arriving and departing flights.
- Perform cleaning/organizing activities in the freight hangars and ramp area.
- Assist with other tasks or activities as required.
- genuinely cares about and enjoys serving people;
- likes to word hard [not just in concept, but in reality!!!];
- thrives on work requiring serious flexibility and multi-tasking;
- views favorably the idea of having a physical labor component to their work day;
- thinks aviation is cool;
- loves living in Interior/Arctic Alaska and is very excited about the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships with the people and communities we serve.
Arctic Base Camp
Arctic Base Camp
Guest Service
$15.00 - $18.00 / hour
Guest Services coworkers are primarily responsible for coordinating all activities associated with guest departures from and returns to Fairbanks. This involves greeting guests as they arrive, checking them in for their various tours, making any certificate corrections and setting appropriate expectations. Guest Services gives a thorough briefing at the start of each tour, using soulful honesty to prepare everyone for the realities
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The base camp host has primary responsibility for a VERY diverse set of guest-service activities focused on extending soulful hospitality to an equally diverse make-up of guests either departing on or returning from a travel adventure in Alaska's Arctic --- the base camp host is empowered with the extremely important responsibility of ensuring that each departing guest has expectations for their travel experience set at a level that can be met and exceeded by both the guide and the experience.
Specific responsibilities include:
THE PERFECT FIT
The "base camp host - guest service" position is a perfect fit for an individual who:
COMPENSATION:
$15.00 / hour PLUS season completion bonus PLUS housing and transportation
[costs associated with meals are a coworker responsibility --- the housing facility does have a common-use kitchen/dining area]
WHEN DOES THIS POSITION BEGIN?
Once someone is hired for this position, they are responsible for getting themselves to Fairbanks, AK. Training will begin in late April to early May. The Midnight Sun season ends in late September when we transition to Aurora (winter) tours. We do require that all Arctic Base Camp coworkers stay working full time until September 21st, although some may be able to stay even later if desired.
Coldfoot Camp
Coldfoot Camp
Baker
Coldfoot Camp
Breakfast Cook
Coldfoot Camp
Camp Host
Coldfoot Camp
Cleaner
Coldfoot Camp
Cleaner/Host
Coldfoot Camp
Dinner Buffet Cook
Coldfoot Camp
Dishwasher
Coldfoot Camp
Guide
Coldfoot Camp
Lunch Cook
Coldfoot Camp
Maintenance
Coldfoot Camp
Night Cook
Deadhorse Camp
Deadhorse Camp
Baker/Breakfast Cook
Deadhorse Camp
Camp Host
Deadhorse Camp
Cleaner/Dishwasher
Deadhorse Camp
Dinner Cook
Deadhorse Camp
Guide
Deadhorse Camp
Prep/Lunch Cook
Manley Roadhouse
Manley Roadhouse
Baker/Breakfast Cook
Manley Roadhouse
Camp Host
Manley Roadhouse
Cleaner/Dishwasher
Manley Roadhouse
Prep/Lunch/Dinner Cook
Northern Alaska Tour Company
Northern Alaska Tour Company
Guest Service
$15.00 - $18.00 / hour
Guest Services coworkers are primarily responsible for coordinating all activities associated with guest departures from and returns to Fairbanks. This includes preparing materials such as snack coolers, guide boxes etc. needed by the guides on the road. It also involves greeting guests as they arrive, checking them in for their various tours, making any certificate corrections and setting appropriate expectations. Guest Services gives a thorough briefing at the start of each tour, using soulful honesty to prepare everyone for the realities they will encounter during their experience, and addressing any questions, concerns or trepidations guests may have. The start of a tour is a time when many things are happening simultaneously, and an ability to maintain calm under such conditions is definitely an asset.
Guest Services coworkers will often shuttle people to or from our Northern Alaska Tour Company headquarters in 15 passenger vans. Also, Guest Services takes primary responsibility for the essential task of keeping our terminal and restrooms tidy, clean and sanitary.
NATC has an open office environment, so coworkers have the pleasure of constant interaction with each other – we pride ourselves in professional, respectful communication combined with a deep level of caring. Guest Services coworkers are especially active in maintaining open communications with guides, pilots and other parts of the NATC family.
Specific Responsibilities
The guest service position has primary responsibility for coordinating all activities associated with guest departures from and return arrivals to Fairbanks. The position is empowered with the important responsibility of ensuring that each guest departs on an experience with expectations set at a level that can be exceeded by the guide and the experience. Additionally, the position is responsible for assisting reservations with inquiry, reservation, and document production activities.
Training
Full time work as well as necessary training begins in late April / early May. Summer season ends in late September when we transition to winter tours.
Schedule
This is a summer seasonal position that continues through the end of September. There is potential for seasonal positions to transition into year round positions in the fall and winter!
HOURS: 4/5 days per week: three-week rotation [week one -- 5 days / week two -- 5 days / week three -- 4 days]
Morning: 3:00 am - 11:30 am [30-minute meal break]
Afternoon: 11:00 am -- 8:00 pm [60-minute meal break]
Evening: 5:30 pm -- 2:00 am [30-minute meal break]
Guest Service candidates must be at least 19 years of age.
All candidates must possess the ability to successfully complete Northern Alaska Tour Company's 2023 Professional Vehicle Operator Training program and must complete a pre-employment drug test.
Compensation - Seasonal WITHOUT HOUSING and TRANSPORTATION
$18.00 / hour
Compensation - Seasonal WITHOUT HOUSING and TRANSPORTATION
$15.00 / hour + Shared Housing + Transportation
You are welcome to call our office @ (907) 474-8600 and ask for Michelle with any questions!
Northern Alaska Tour Company
Summer Guide
$14.00 - $17.00 / hour
(Summer and YEAR ROUND) Guiding with Northern Alaska Tour Company is a high-energy position best suited to individuals who make social connections easily, who genuinely love interacting with others and who thrive in positions of responsibility.
Please consider applying as a guide if all of the following applies to you:
All of our tours are ground-based, traveling into northern Alaska on the industrial road called the Dalton Highway. We use 15 passenger vans configured to carry fewer than 10 persons and 25 passenger coaches. We share the road with heavy trucks freighting material to Deadhorse on the Arctic Coast of Alaska to support the oil fields around Prudhoe Bay; other tour operators and work crews; and, every once in a while, independent private vehicles. Guides share the story of Alaska's Arctic - the human history as well as the natural history of permafrost, the boreal forest, and its wild creatures. They manage the day and guest expectations, help guests make connections to each other and to the environment, and generally ensure that each guest is as comfortable, engaged and enjoying themselves as possible.
All guides start out conducting our Arctic Circle Drive Adventure. The total distance to the Circle and back is almost exactly 400 miles - a fairly slow and rough 400 miles.
Guiding seasons:
Midnight Sun Season (April 21-Sept 21)
Aurora Season (Aug 21-April 21)
We do have year round guides, so guides joining our team in the summer months are given the option to stay on through the Aurora Season.
Training: Begins in April. Our guide training includes intensive Professional Vehicle Operator Training (PVOT) that will result in obtaining a class B commercial driver license. Our PVOT program is 140+ hours, we compensate for these hours at minimum wage. Everyone must successfully complete our program regardless of previous commercial operating experience.
Schedule:
Full-time and/or part-time year round and seasonal positions are available
COMPENSATION
Without housing: $17.00/hr
With Housing: $14.00 hr + housing + transportation
(On average 30-50% of weekly hours are overtime)
Ridgetop Cabins
Ridgetop Cabins
Guest Service
Wright Air
Wright Air
Freight
The freight-based guest service position has primary responsibility for assisting with all freight activities associated with accepting freight and mail for flights departing from our Fairbanks-based terminal --- secondarily, has responsibility for assisting with counter and ramp activities on an as-required basis.
The guest service coworker is the frontline embodiment of Wright Air’s mission of soulful hospitality, hard work, and genuine care/concern --- it is the relationship that the guest service coworker builds with our guests that ultimately determines our ability to transform our mission into an everyday reality for our guests.
Specific responsibilities include:
THE PERFECT FIT
An individual who:
WORK SCHEDULE
At Wright Air we take pride in working hard to create a work schedule for each coworker that is individualized to meet their unique life-work balance/needs --- both part-time and full-time work schedules are available --- most work takes place between the hours of 4:00 AM and 8:00 PM --- the ability to work on Saturday and/or Sunday is a plus but not a requirement.
COMPENSATION
Fairbanks-based coworker providing own lodging ---
Competitive starting wage varies depending on skills/experience.
OR
"Camp-style" seasonal coworker ---
Competitive starting wage varies depending on skills/experience PLUS lodging PLUS $1,000.00 season completion bonus.
OUR MISSION
Extend soulful hospitality to our guests --- and, enjoy doing it
Work hard --- thus, creating value for our guests
Care [genuinely!!!] about the communities we serve
Wright Air
Ramp
The ramp position has primary responsibility for assisting with all ramp activities associated with the loading and unloading of aircraft arriving and departing from our Fairbanks-based terminal --- secondarily, has responsibility for assisting with freight and counter activities on an as-required basis.
The ramp coworker is the “behind-the-scenes” embodiment of Wright Air’s mission of soulful hospitality, hard work, and genuine care/concern --- it is the passion that the ramp coworker infuses into his/her work that ultimately determines our ability to transform our mission into an everyday reality for our guests.
Specific responsibilities include:
THE PERFECT FIT
An individual who:
WORK SCHEDULE
At Wright Air we take pride in working hard to create a work schedule for each coworker that is individualized to meet their unique life-work balance/needs --- both part-time and full-time work schedules are available --- most work takes place between the hours of 4:00 AM and 8:00 PM --- the ability to work on Saturday and/or Sunday is a plus but not a requirement.
COMPENSATION
Fairbanks-based coworker providing own lodging ---
Competitive starting wage varies dependent on skills/experience.
OR
"Camp-style" seasonal coworker ---
Competitive starting wage varies dependent on skills/experience PLUS lodging PLUS $1,000.00 season completion bonus.
OUR MISSION
Extend soulful hospitality to our guests --- and, enjoy doing it
Work hard --- thus, creating value for our guests
Care [genuinely!!!] about the communities we serve
Yukon River Camp
Yukon River Camp
Baker/Breakfast/Lunch Cook
Yukon River Camp
Cleaner/Dishwasher
Yukon River Camp
Dinner Cook
Yukon River Camp
Relief Cook
How to Apply
If you have read this far and still believe that "working arctic" might be right for you, we encourage you to learn more by reading the detailed information found at www.workarctic.com.
After further research, if you remain interested in being considered for employment at one of our Camps, please complete/submit our online employment application. The completion of the online employment application is an employment requirement.
We will review your application upon receipt, and those applicants who appear to be a good fit with the work/life experience offered by our Camps will be invited to participate in a 60-ish minute information phone conversation.
Please remember: all of our Camps are committed to providing a drug-free workplace (including marijuana) in accordance with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988. Thus, all applicants should feel comfortable submitting to pre-employment, random, and "for cause" drug testing.
Contact Info
- Brett Carlson
- work@northernalaska.com
- www.workarctic.com
