06/30/2026
FULL TIME JOB OPPORTUNITY - Parks & Wildlife Maintenance Apprentice
📍 Positions available statewide
Do you love the outdoors? Enjoy hands-on work? Want to make a meaningful impact? Now is your chance to launch your career working outdoors while gaining hands-on experience maintaining New Jersey State Parks, Forests & Historic Sites. In this two-year training program, apprentices develop the skills needed to perform a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled tasks related to the construction, maintenance, repair, and improvement of structures, facilities, equipment and grounds.
Salary Range: $42,447.94 – $61,198.74
Positions available at:
📍 Allaire State Park (Monmouth County)
📍 Brendan T Byrne State Forest(Burlington County)
📍 Stokes State Forest (Sussex County)
Responsibilities include providing custodial services to ensure the health and safety of visitors, performing minor and major repairs, snow removal, basic painting and carpentry work. Additional duties include maintaining roadways and outdoor recreational facilities, as well as the upkeep of park infrastructure.
Applications are due by 4 p.m. on July 8.
🔗 Learn more and apply today: https://njdepartmentofenvironmentalprotection.applytojob.com/apply/Qo56vrIIjR/SPFHS202617-Parks-And-Wildlife-Maintenance-Apprentice
As a New Jersey State Department, the Department of Environmental Protection offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
✅ Paid Benefit Leave
✅ Holiday Pay
✅ Alternative Workweek Program*
✅ Telework*
✅ Pension Deferred Compensation
✅ Health Benefits (medical, prescription drug, dental & vision care) and Life Insurance
✅ Flexible and Health Spending Accounts (FSA/HSA)
✅ Commuter Tax Savings Program
✅ Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
✅ Tuition Reimbursement*
*Pursuant to the State/Department's policy, procedures, and/or guidelines.
