Employment

Skills needed:  This position could be anywhere from 20 – 40 hours, depending on your availability and our needs. Always done by 4 PM. Saturday, Sunday are required days, with additional days based on your schedule. This person will do a little of everything–help with outfitting, mow grass, clean canoes and outfitting gear, rake the beach, clean grills, and help our team with weekend cabin cleaning. Can be a seasonal position. We have no housing for this position, so you must have your own place to stay. Ideal position for person with a cabin nearby who’d enjoy picking up summer hours.

This job has been filled.

Skills needed:  Attention to detail, a good work ethic, a friendly nature, and a willingness to tackle every job, outdoors or indoors. Good communication skills essential. You’ll have your own small lakeside apartment or house, with access to canoes, gear, skis, and snowshoes. Wages negotiable, depending on experience. This employee could eventually join our permanent staff, if you are a successful fit for working here. Health insurance and dental insurance benefits are available to our permanent employees. 

Based on our current available housing, this job will probably be filled by an applicant with previous housekeeping experience who is part of a couple who can share a tiny house. If you are an experienced, top-notch housekeeper apply anyway — we might be able to come up with more housing for the perfect person.

Skills needed:  Do you have previous housekeeping experience? Or are you just known to be good at keeping everything organized and looking clean? Are you attentive to details, good at noticing when new supplies need to be ordered, comfortable with giving others directions for what we should complete? Our primary housekeeping managers were a couple, and after a few years they are moving on to real life. We’re starting fresh in this area. We’re looking for the right person/people to make sure the most important aspect of this resort, clean cabins, is consistently happening. Attention to detail, a good work ethic, a friendly nature, and a willingness to tackle every job, outdoors or indoors. Good communication skills essential. You’ll have your own small lakeside apartment or house, with access to canoes, gear, skis, and snowshoes. Wages negotiable, depending on experience. This is not a seasonal position. We’d hope this employee would stay through several seasons as it is the toughest job to get right. Health insurance and dental insurance benefits are available to our permanent employees. 

This job probably needs to got to one half of a couple, due to housing needs.

This employee helps everyone, indoors and outside, in all kinds of Minnesota weather. Ideally this employee stays for winter also, which makes it a better fit for someone with experience dealing with daily snow and occasional -10 degree temperatures.

Our resort guests rely on this employee to help them solve daily maintenance and boat problems. This person regularly checks that heat and water are working in every cabin, that light bulbs and smoke/CO detectors are functioning, and makes sure that our guests are warm and safe. Ability to make small repairs, do occasional vehicle maintenance, and independently solve problems to keep our resort world functioning is very helpful. Everyone at Bearskin cleans cabins when needed, and everyone at Bearskin puts in occasional stints at the front desk. In the summer, these outdoor tasks include grass mowing and trimming, stacking wood, dock maintenance, canoe rentals and cleaning, caring for outfitting gear, boat maintenance and rentals, and campground care. In the winter, the job includes snow-plowing and snow-blowing, firewood stacking, shoveling, car-starting and miscellaneous winter tasks, in addition to all the other ways this employee helps out. Lots of lifting in this job–you need a strong, healthy back to do it.  Maintenance skills a big plus for this job, but if you have an aptitude for these skills then we can teach you.

Our couple job now needs to be one person with housekeeping experience and one all-purpose person willing to do indoor and outdoor Minnesota jobs. (Of course, all jobs here also require housekeeping help–keeping cabins clean is why we get to live here.)

Live on the edge of the BWCA with someone you enjoy, and experience outdoor escapades together.

We love to hire couples on our staff. It’s nice to have a built-in friend to go on adventures when you’re here. If two of you fit our needs, we’re happy to hire you together. Both individuals need to offer skills we’re looking for, and there has to be an understanding that if one person doesn’t work out then both jobs are affected. Both members of the couple need to fill the roles that are needed, as listed above. Housing unit is a tiny, lofted lakeside cabin to yourselves. Simple, but much-loved.

This is the job that has introduced so many young couples to Grand Marais and given many the foothold that allowed them to begin or buy their Cook County business, or start their permanent “up north” life. Ideal job candidates who are high energy self-starters, are willing to stay awhile, and who are able to fill the maintenance and housekeeping/front desk positions. Potential management roles in the future for the right people. We try to give couples days off together and similar work hours, although we can’t promise it will always work out. This is the dream couples job for the right people. Let’s talk and find out if you’re the ones. Wage and start dates negotiable.