General Information

Employment

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From maintaining trails to conserving greenspace, interacting with visitors to working with community partners, every Summit Metro Parks employee plays a key role in helping the people, plants and wildlife of Summit County thrive.

View a full list of job postings below to learn how you can play a part in connecting visitors to nature through clean and safe parks.

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Job Postings

Part-time

Park Technician

Maintain and enhance park district’s lands and facilities by performing unskilled and semi-skilled jobs in a manner which assures the highest standard of maintenance, safety and service to the public.

Full-time

Supervisor of Wildlife Resources

At Summit Metro Parks our job is to collect, protect and perfect natural areas and cultural heritage in and around Summit County for the perpetual benefit and enjoyment of our residents. As a full time supervisor of wildlife resources, your role is to provide direction toward this end primarily through wildlife assessments, inventories, studies, and management actions.

Seasonal Employment Opportunities

To apply for seasonal positions, please complete the REQUIRED application form and return to [email protected] OR mail to: Human Resources, Summit Metro Parks, 975 Treaty Line Rd., Akron, OH 44313.

Seasonal

Park Biologist

Under the direction of the chief of human resources, assist with carrying out numerous human resource functions in support of the human resources department for Summit Metro Parks. Duties include but are not limited to benefits processing, facilitate hiring timeline, orientation, training, personnel paperwork processing, file maintenance, assisting with personnel inquiries and employee events.

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