**Position Responsibilities:**

+ Maintains a safe workplace program and ensures that safety is the highest priority in the workplace.

+ Complies with all ASC Environmental, Safety and Health (ESH), Waste Management and Quality Assurance requirements.

+ Trains grantees and other USAP participants in the use of life-safety survival gear and field equipment stocked in the field center.  This includes but is not limited to sizing climbing equipment, operating camp stoves, erecting a variety of tents, and offering instruction on the proper use of a large variety of other field equipment.

+ Repairs, maintains, and cleans life-safety field equipment including specialty items (i.e. a variety of sleds, tents, stoves, ice coring equipment, and climbing equipment).

+ Facilitates the USAP Field Safety Training program at McMurdo Station providing detailed instruction on cold weather survival techniques, Risk Management, radio communications procedures, ...