Riverboat Discovery Summer 2025
Riverboat Discovery Summer 2025
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Join the Family! The Riverboat Discovery offers a multitude of jobs in every department of the operation.
All our positions at the Riverboat Discovery have an element of customer service some more so than others. They can be categorized into two groups On Stage and Back Stage. On Stage positions have more interaction with our guests while Back Stage positions have less interaction. We offer multiple levels of employment opportunities to lead and manage a team.
Wages starting from $17$18/hour (this includes $1/hour bonus paid in a lump sum at the end of our season). Leadership position wages range from $17$20/hour DOE.
On Stage
Retail Sales Associate
- Serve as a customer service representative for visitors to the Riverboat Discovery
- Assist visitors with purchases
- Prepare and stock merchandise for sale
- Perform inventory control duties
- Organize and distribute merchandise
- Perform other duties related to the successful operation of a retail store including cleaning and moderate lifting
Dining Hall Associate
- Provide dining service to guests and meet their needs to ensure a pleasurable dining experience
- Set up/remove food service items
- Greet and seat guests in a prompt and courteous manner
- Reset tables according to service standards
- Operating commercial dishwashers
- Ensure cleanliness of dishes including some polishing of glass for water spot removal
- Maintain sanitation and safety standards
Reservationist
- Serve as customer service representatives for visitors to the Riverboat Discovery & Gold Dredge 8
- Answer phones
- Respond to emails
- Give directions
- Other administrative related tasks as directed
Tour Guide
- Greet passengers and serve as ambassadors for Alaskan Native culture
- Conduct the tour of the Chena Village
- Serve coffee and donuts and assist Deckhands in the snack bar during busy times
Deckhand
- Cast off at departure and secure the Riverboat Discovery on landing
- Maintain the safety and cleanliness of the boat
- Staff the snack bars when passengers are on board
- Provide general passenger assistance and if necessary
- Provide emergency first aid until trained EMTs arrive
- Mandatory drug testing per the US Coast Guard
Village Hand
- Village Hands maintain the Chena Village
- Set up and take down props cabins and displays used during the tour
- Feed and monitor wellbeing of the reindeer living on site
- Receive and cast lines during boat landing and departure push and receive gang planks greet passengers
- Clean restrooms and porta potties
- Monitor inventory of supplies
Back Stage
Accounting Clerk
- Count cash
- Entering accounts receivable into an accounting program
- Prepare daily receipts ledgers and deposits
- Prepare invoices and journal entries
- Reservation support duties
Kitchen Assistant
- Work in the kitchen area with some duties performed in our dining hall
- Duties include operating kitchen cooking equipment to prepare fixed menu food
- Preparing all food for our gift shop caf
- Serve food in the dining hall
- Maintaining the cleanliness standards required in the kitchen
Donut Maker
- Operate and maintain the donutmaking machine
- Ensure that donuts are properly produced boxed and refrigerated
Grounds Crew(Fulltime & Parttime)
- Fulltime 11am 7:30pm) and parttime 5pm 7:30 pm)
- Clean the Riverboat Discovery and premises twice a day (after the boat returns to the dock at 12:30pm and again at 5:30pm)
- Dust vacuum empty trash wash windows clean restrooms
- Grounds maintenance duties and offsite maintenance tasks to be performed as directed
Seasonal Management & Leadership Positions
Please email if you have any questions about the positions listed below:
Boat Operations Manager Riverboat Discovery
First Mate & Lead Deckhand Riverboat Discovery
Grounds Crew Lead Riverboat Discovery
Kitchen Lead Riverboat Discovery
Retail Buyers Assistant Riverboat Discovery
Retail Warehouse Manager Riverboat Discovery
Shipping Manager Riverboat Discovery
Supply Chain Manager Riverboat Discovery
Qualifications
The job descriptions and hours range from job to job but we do not require our employees to come into a department with a specific set of skills in hand as long as our employees are excited and energetic we can teach them anything they need to know to do their job.
Whether On Stage or Back Stage it is vitally important that every employee provides the highest level of customer service possible. As a company we are committed to creating a trip that is a memorable firstclass experience for our guests.
Employment Type
Temp
