Preservationist - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - National Park Service

Description

MAJOR DUTIES:

• Provide building and grounds maintenance for a historic site with a diversified infrastructure and operational complexity with facilities that are both modern and extensive historic structures and resources with complex cultural components.
• Duties performed outdoors as a journeyman and training of peers, lower or higher-level employees on masonry, carpentry, mixing soils, water, and amendments for mortar to remove and repair damaged portions of wall and structures.
• Perform prescribed preservation treatments (capping, veneering, repointing, resettling and new laying) to alter, maintain, repair, construct and/or stabilize a variety of assets including historic structures, foundations and ruins, contemporary buildings, stone block, and wood components.
• Perform masonry work such as construct, alter, modify, or repair structures such as pillars, mortar posts, framework, rafters, joists, insulation, sheet rock paneling, doors, windows, flooring, and roofing on historic/non-historic structures.