Join Our Team!
Thank you for your interest in working for Holiday River Expeditions. We accept applications on a year round basis and would love to hear from you! We have completed our hiring for guides, warehouse workers, and drivers for the 2023 season. Please feel free to still submit an application for the 2024 season. Our hiring process typically begins around the beginning of the year.
Holiday has been running backcountry trips in Utah since 1966. We are known for our friendly, efficient, and professional employees. All of the Holiday family is committed to providing our guests with an enjoyable wilderness experience with an opportunity to learn about the natural world. We accomplish this through diligent training, meaningful interpretation, innovative equipment and facilities, and responsible stewardship of the land.
Our goal is to always exceed industry standards in providing our guests a with quality wilderness experience with minimal impacts to other groups, the land, the water, the air, and our cultural treasures. This simultaneously provides our employees the opportunity to learn about and experience the natural world, meet some wonderful and interesting people, and have some of the best times of their life.
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We hire employees based on their people skills, ability and willingness to learn, professional appearance, and responsible wilderness values. It is important that you are in good health and physically fit. You need to be responsible, have solid work habits, and the ability to get the job done. Guides are responsible for providing interpretive backcountry trips varying in length from 1–7 days. The majority of our trips are rafting vacations, complemented by a smaller offering of mountain bike trips.
You will need to possess or acquire the required guide license, first aid, CPR, and food handler’s permit for the guide position. These qualifications can be met following the hiring process through Holiday’s training program. Holiday is a drug-free workplace. Employees will need to pass a pre-employment drug test prior to final hiring.
Click here for the employment application.
Please send completed applications to tim.bikeraft@gmail.com and ops.holidayriver@gmail.com.
Go with the flow,
Tim Gaylord
Director of Operations