Polar Field Services INC Hiring for Summit Site Supervisor: Spend the Winter in Greenland! Job at United States Full Time

The Summit Site Supervisor will plan, organize, and direct the daily operations of Summit Station; review, develop, and communicate Logistics Contractor policies and procedures to staff and research community; and coordinate with station personnel to ensure successful implementation of tasking and research support on a daily basis.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan, organize and direct operations for research support and station facility operation and maintenance following PFS-provided guidelines.
• Prioritize daily activity in response to schedule revisions or other changes to meet timelines. Analyze situations to adopt an effective course of action.
• Serve as station safety lead and set travel restrictions based on weather conditions and station policy. Ensure check-in protocols are trained and utilized for all personnel.
• Oversee activities of all station personnel to ensure risk management is incorporated into planning for all areas. Establish ‘house mouse” schedule for station personnel.
• Communicate with researchers on their support requirements and adjust activity schedules to provide a high level of support.
• Coordinate with Construction and Maintenance leads to ensure schedules are clearly communicated and deconflicted with science and operations activities.
• Coordinate support to aircraft operations on-station and with Kangerlussuaq staff.
• Conduct a daily meeting to review or assign station priorities as well as a weekly safety meeting. Participate in and provide guidance to the Emergency Response Team.
• Maintain frequent communication with offsite station leads: Site Manager, Science Project Manager and GL Maintenance Lead. Complete a verbal daily check-in with offsite Point of Contact every day of the year.
• Provide an arrival orientation to all arriving on station.
• Coordinate resupply and inventory with Summit Site Manager.
• Maintain station logs and documentation, to include: passenger movement, fuel quantity, station inspections, waste tracking, incident reporting, etc.
• Compile a weekly report and submit to the Site Manager.
• Complete closeout checklists for station personnel. Provide transition information to the incoming site supervisor, to include medic transfer and appropriate passdown of records, station status and personnel responsibilities.
• Participate in station operations, maintenance and house mouse tasking. Assign personnel as needed for support during busy periods.
• Adhere to all Employee Health, Safety and Environmental policies and procedures. Report and document any incidents immediately. Manage and coordinate work schedules to incorporate HSE protocols to mitigate risk.
• Abide by Clean Air policies and document any incursions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience: Any combination of education, experience, and/or training equivalent to a college degree and/or five years of relevant work experience that includes supervision of personnel and remote field station experience.

Other Requirements:

• Authorization to work in the U.S. is required. Polar Field Services cannot sponsor employment based work visas.
• Possession of current and valid US passport.
• Intermediate computer skills are required, including Word, Excel, Office 365

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hazardous Material Shipment Certification

Work Schedule:

Ability and willingness to work varied field operations schedules (up to 12+ hours per day), including split-shift, part-time, early mornings, evenings and weekends.

Required Travel:

Position is based at Summit Station, Greenland for approximately 3-6 months. Travel to Greenland may be via NY with 109th or international commercial travel.

Work Environment/Conditions

This position requires travel and deployment to remote field sites for work assignments.

Outdoor working conditions are challenging and temperatures may be extreme and exceed -40F. When at field sites, employees will sleep in tents, dorms or other types of community housing. Food may come from restaurants, self-made or from a cook. Showers, laundry and other typical amenities may be restricted or eliminated. Transport may include but is not limited to aircraft, trucks and snow machines.

Communications/bandwidth from field sites may be limited.

Work is performed at high altitude

Physical Demands/Requirements:

Please note: This position requires you to “physically qualify” (PQ). This means you must pass the National Science Foundation required physical/dental exams and drug screen prior to deployment.

• Able to move items up to 50lbs independently and 50+ lbs with mechanical assistance

• Able to frequently shovel snow

• Ability to withstand exposure to fumes, dust, and noise. Field work may require frequent exposure to other natural hazards.
• Ability to climb stairs and ladders
• Ability to wear hard hats, steel-toes boots, and other PPE when required

Benefits: Hourly Health & Welfare benefit credit applied to first 40 hours worked each week. Currently an additional $4.22/hour on top of base pay ($168.80/weekly).

DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all requirements, activities and skills required of staff members. This job description may change at any time.