Career Pathways

Job Description: Under supervision, to do a variety of semiskilled manual tasks in the alteration, maintenance, and repair of buildings and building facilities; may instruct, lead, or supervise inmates, wards, or resident workers; and to do other related work.

Qualifications: One year of experience as a Corpsmember in the California Conservation Corps.

Learn more about the Building Maintenance Worker position. This position is part of the Caltrans Maintenance Series, a pathway into state service.

Job Description: The class of Service Assistant (Maintenance) is designed to provide on-the-job experience for persons who have successfully completed a training program in grounds, highway, or building maintenance work. Experience in this class is qualifying for advancement to higher level classes in such areas as grounds keeping and highway or building maintenance work.

Qualifications: Three months’ experience as a Corpsmember with the California Conservation Corps.

Learn more about the Service Assistant (Maintenance) position.

Job Description: The class of Service Assistant (Maintenance) works under supervision to do routine cleanup and unskilled maintenance helper tasks in a State Park District and has a year-round workload. This position may lead a crew of seasonal employees doing cleanup and other unskilled work during peak seasons as well as other related work.

Qualifications: Any combination of education and experience which will develop the ability to understand mechanical relationships, read and write, follow directions, and communicate in English as are necessary to perform the housekeeping duties and learn the semiskilled maintenance tasks required to properly maintain a public use beach or park facility. The CCC can help Corpsmembers meet these qualifications.

Learn more about the Park Maintenance Assistant position.

Job Description: This position works under supervision to do skilled and semiskilled structural and facility maintenance and repair work in a State Park District; leads and train a crew of maintenance employees. In extremely small park districts this position assists with planning for and supervising the area maintenance program and does other related work.

Qualifications: Either two years of experience in the California state service performing the duties of a Park Maintenance Assistant. Or two years of experience in a construction, building repair, or mechanical trade. The CCC can help Corpsmembers gain this experience.

Learn more about the Park Maintenance Worker 1 position.

Job Description: Under direction, on a temporary or seasonal basis only, to lead lower-level seasonal employees performing unskilled manual labor in cleaning up and maintaining State property; and to do other related work.

Qualifications: Experience: One year or 1,920 hours of experience in any one of the following: construction, equipment maintenance or operation, leading housekeeping or conservation crews, building repair, or mechanical trades. Education: Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade. (Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.) The CCC can help Corpsmembers meet these qualifications.

Learn more about the Senior Maintenance Aide (Seasonal) position.

Job Description: This position performs defensible space inspections and interacts with the public to provide fire prevention information.

Qualifications: Three (3) months of experience with public or private entities performing sub-professional work in forestry, fire prevention, fire suppression and control, natural resource management, or other related work. The CCC can help Corpsmembers gain this experience.

Learn more about the Forestry Aide (Defensible Space Inspector) position.

CCC Corpsmembers have gone on to a variety of careers with private energy companies, regional and county parks districts, as well as local publics works departments. Corpsmembers have also furthered their education, leveraging their scholarships to pursue trades programs and higher education.

CCC Corpsmembers have gone on to a variety of careers with commercial kitchens, resorts, and restaurants. Corpsmembers have also furthered their education, leveraging their scholarships to pursue culinary school.

Job Description: Under close supervision, incumbents perform the less responsible and routine seasonal work in a field, a field and laboratory, or an office setting concerned with the inspection of agricultural commodities; the control of plant and animal pests and diseases; inspection of vehicles for compliance with agricultural commodity quarantine laws and regulations; assistive and nonprofessional entomological or plant pest work; hide and brand inspection; livestock identification; livestock sampling activities; or environmental monitoring and pesticide use/management.

Qualifications: One season of experience (approximately three months) in growing, harvesting, grading, packing, sorting, loading, buying, selling, or inspecting fruits, vegetables, or other agricultural commodities; or the inspection and certification of livestock; or in virus, animal/plant pest, or disease eradication and control work in the field or laboratory; the inspection of fruit trees for presence of viruses; environmental monitoring; biological control or pest management work including pest and pesticide sampling and rearing of pests, landscape maintenance or nursery operations work, or other agricultural work. The CCC can help Corpsmembers meet these qualifications.

Learn more about the Agricultural Technician I (Seasonal) position. This position is part of the Agricultural Aide/Technician (Seasonal) Series, a pathway into state service. 

CCC Corpsmembers have gone on to a variety of careers with private environmental companies as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

CCC Corpsmembers have gone on to a variety of careers with private forestry companies, utility line clearance companies, and the U.S. Forest Service as federal Forestry Technicians.

Job Description: Under close supervision, as a seasonal helper only, to do routine conservation work in connection with Department of Fish and Game field activities; and to do other related work.

Qualifications: Possession of a valid driver license. Demonstrated knowledge of, interest in, and aptitude for fish and wildlife conservation and repair and maintenance work; willingness to live and work throughout the State. CCC can help Corpsmembers meet these qualifications.

Learn more about the Fish and Wildlife Seasonal Aid position. 

Job Description: This specification describes a recruiting and developmental class in which employees, under supervision, perform a variety of tasks in fish and wildlife conservation work at fixed or temporary installations in the natural habitat and fish hatcheries; work in a major phase of the operation of a fish hatchery; or act as lead of a small crew engaged in fish and wildlife habitat improvement work, fish planting, counting, or egg collection activities; and do other related work. Incumbents are assigned duties and responsibilities commensurate with their background and training.

Qualifications: Six months of experience in the natural resources field such as parks, forestry, or fish and wildlife. (Completion of one year of college with at least six semester units in the biological sciences may be substituted for the required experience.) CCC can help Corpsmembers meet these qualifications.

Learn more about the Fish and Wildlife Technician position.

Job Description: Under direction, either (1) in a fish habitat improvement shop, perform and assist in the construction, installation, and maintenance of fish screens, ladders, traps, and fish habitat improvement on streams and lakes; or (2) in a field assignment, coordinate and implement fish habitat improvement projects on streams and lakes; and do other related work.

Qualifications: Experience: Two years of experience in the natural resources field such as parks, forestry or fish and wildlife, performing construction and maintenance work on habitat development projects. and Education equivalent to completion of the 12th grade. CCC can help Corpsmembers meet these qualifications.

Learn more about the Fish Habitat Assistant position.

CCC Corpsmembers have gone on to a variety of careers with nonprofit companies as well as the federal government, working with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.

Job Description: This is the entry, working, and journey level class. Under direction, incumbents work with and/or direct the work of a crew on a wide variety of conservation activities and projects. Incumbents transport crew members and staff to job sites in state-owned vehicles. Assignments may be specific to include but are not limited to, leading crews on the grade or in the field, acting in a relief capacity, as an advisor in a residential or satellite facility, leading energy crews, or acting in a relief capacity filling in for several or all areas.

Qualifications: One year of experience as a Corpsmember in the California Conservation Corps, including at least six months as a Crew Leader.

Learn more about the Conservationist 1 position. This position is part of the Conservationist Series, a pathway into state service.

CCC Corpsmembers have gone on to a variety of careers with resource conservation districts, tribal governments, as well as local and regional nonprofits.

CCC Corpsmembers have gone on to careers with the National Parks Service and U.S. Forest Service, maintaining trails on federal land. 

CCC Corpsmembers have gone on to a variety of careers with private fire companies, local and regional fire departments, and federal agencies including the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

We’ve had Corpsmembers enroll to join the culinary program who end up trying their hand at being a wildland firefighter. The CCC wants you to find your pathway, even if it you don’t end up working in natural resources or for the state.