Job Description
Join the Alta family and enjoy the best winter of your life!
Have fun while working outdoors! This position offers a great opportunity to get to know our mountain and be part of the Alta community.
Lift Operators play an essential role in mountain operations, spending their days outside, maintaining areas around lifts and tows in all kinds of weather while interacting with skiers from around the world.
This is a full-time seasonal position. Shifts are 8:30am–5pm, five days a week. Skiing opportunities are available every day. Applicants should be intermediate or expert skiers.
Applicants must be able to pass the pre-employment physical screening. Employee housing may be available.
Job Duties
- Working with all departments and employees in mountain operations
- Providing outstanding skier interaction
- Regulating lift lines
- Operating lifts and tows
- Monitoring loading and unloading
- Keeping areas around the lifts and tows maintained
- Spending long hours outside in inclement weather
Alta Employee Benefits
- Free skiing at Alta with your employee ID
- Qualifying employees receive discounted skiing at Mountain Collective Resorts and Ikon resorts
- Alta ticket vouchers for friends and family are available for qualifying employees
- Your employee ID allows you free use of Utah Transit Authority (UTA) ski buses
- Employees are eligible to participate in our UTA Rideshare Vans
- Free or discounted lessons from the Alf Engen Ski School
- Discounts at Alta restaurants
- Discounts at Alta Ski Shops
A full list of benefits for all Alta employees is listed on the Benefits & FAQs page.
If you have further questions, please email jobs@alta.com.
We are no longer accepting applications for this position.
Additional Benefits
Contact Us
Alta Ski Area
P.O. Box 8007
Alta, UT 84092-8007
Phone: 801.359.1078
Email: info@alta.com