Tour Guide
Please note: Ziptrek Ecotours does not offer staff housing – our staff housing for the season is FULL.
Role Summary
Our guides are the foundation of our business and our renowned guest experience; we look to them to deliver safe, energized, and confidence-inspiring tours. A competent Ziptrek trained guide is physically able to work long days outside in our beautiful old growth rainforest, while ensuring a high level of guest safety and experience. Our guides enable guests to focus on their individual experience and a perfect combination of exhilaration and education in iconic natural environments. We are looking for employees ready to start work on Monday, February 3rd, 2025. For our Winter Season (November 22 – April 21), we offer guaranteed 32 hours per week.
Watch our recruitment video: https://vimeo.com/314886952
What we’re looking for:
- Safety oriented individuals with a passion for the outdoors. Minimizing risk is our #1 priority – fun is a close second
- A keen interest in environmental stewardship and enjoy teaching others about it daily
- Physically able to lift 80 lbs and work a labor intensive job for up to 10 hours/day
- You are ready to work outside and enjoy a physically demanding job
- Team players, individuals who can put guest and team priorities above personal objectives
- You have your 16-hour first aid certification – or you can get it by the time you start
Main Duties
Safety
- Adhere to and maintain knowledge of all job-related protocols, policies, and procedures.
- Conduct safe and confidence-inspiring tours; double-checking harness/connections, ensuring appropriate radio protocols are maintained, zipping in control at all times, and braking in accordance with Ziptrek safety standards.
Operations
- Manage efficient tour flows within the allotted time frame.
- Prepare equipment, retrieve harnesses, distribute helmets and build understanding around the correct usage of all components.
- Control equipment inventory, returning all harnesses and helmets into storage after use.
- Additional duties as required, often depending on the season.
Communication
- Maintain strong communication with Guest Services, coworkers, and Course Supervisors throughout the day.
- Create an inclusive environment for guests and coworkers through open and welcoming communication.
Guest Experience
- Greet groups on time and enthusiastically.
- Understand that each guest’ experience is their first and treat them as such.
- Uphold the highest level of customer service during every tour – from start to finish.
- Take ownership of customer needs and address any concerns before they become a problem.
- Teach ecological material in an interesting and factual manner, appropriate for each group.
- Engage and educate diverse guest demographics in the location’s ecological story, guided by the Natural Step
Employee Experience
- Adhere to Ziptrek’s Core Value of “Safety, Guest experience, Education and love for the environment”
- Help fellow staff members – creating a supportive and empowering work environment
- Put team objectives above personal objectives and create a working environment in which fellow employees feel empowered and supported
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisors, managers
- Be mutually responsible for a fun and positive workplace on a day-to-day basis
Hours, Training & Benefits:
- On-call schedule (9 days per fortnight) with possible irregular hours – typical shift: 2-3 tours/day (booking dependant)
- We work in a seasonal town, our staff work hard in the Summer and Winter and book their holidays during the shoulder seasons (September – mid-December and mid-April – June) – we adhere a black-out period from June 28th, 2025 until September 1st, 2025.
- Hourly wage starting at $20.50 per hour, once training is completed wage goes up to $20.75 per hour.
- All job-specific training is done in house – over a 2 week period
ADVENTURE – EDUCATION – INSPIRATION
We are a guest-focused business that is seasonal in nature – during peak times we may call on our team to get outside, work additional hours and do whatever it takes to deliver the experience we are renowned for.
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