Oregon State University Offers Ski Resort Employee Training Online
Your business is snow sports. Oregon State University's is innovative, top-ranked online education and workforce development. Combine forces to:
- Provide consistent, high-quality online training for your employees
- Save your business time and money
- Ensure liability coverage and risk management for your ski resort
LIFT OPERATIONS TRAINING
For the newly hired seasonal employee, this foundational training is designed to bring anyone and everyone up to speed on risk-free lift operations with essential skills for the entire season.
Get essential, online ski lift operations training that provides new recruits with foundational knowledge that your guests, legal team and insurance company can count on. Onboard your seasonal hires with virtual trainings produced by Oregon State University. From blue bird days to sudden white out conditions, your lift team will be ready.
By investing in Oregon State’s Ski Lift Operations training for your employees, your business will:
- Save an estimated 20-50% in training costs at the beginning of every season, based on time spent.
- Provide best-in-class, consistent guest experiences that will generate word-of-mouth referrals and return visitors.
- Train mid-season hires without pulling high-value supervisor-trainers away from their posts peak season.
- Document and track training to ensure liability coverage, risk management and consistent training for everyone on your team.
Cross-train employees quickly and easily for more flexible staffing. Online training, on demand
Bring new hires up to speed when you need them most. All online courses are self-paced and optimized for mobile devices meaning your employees can complete the course whenever and wherever it is most convenient for them.
Curriculum
Through a series of online learning modules, your employees gain essential skills like customer service, safe lift operations, communicating throughout the resort and daily procedures.
Modules cover topics like:
- How a ski resort works
- Introduction to lift operations
- Guest services, ticket checking and other key responsibilities
- Emergency protocol and risk management
LIFT MAINTENANCE TRAINING
For seasoned lift operators, this NSAA-aligned Level 1 training offers technical knowledge to your most reliable team members. Move their career forward while creating a technical staff you trust.
Build a lift maintenance team you can count on by advancing your best lift operators into more technical roles with Oregon State University’s Ski Lift Maintenance Technician Level 1 training. This NSAA-aligned online hybrid training sets your resort up for success by ensuring employee engagement, best-in-class coursework and exceptional guest experiences.
Train any time you need to round out your lift maintenance crew, and don’t pull essential technicians from the job to do it. All online courses are self-paced and optimized for mobile devices meaning your employees can complete the course whenever and wherever it is most convenient for them. On-site mentorship and assessments with members of your supervisory team, means you can customize the training to your business.
Curriculum
The Ski Lift Technician Training, Level 1 is designed for those with at least one season of experience as lift operators, or in related roles, who are looking to progress from customer service and day-to-day operations to a more technical role in lift maintenance.
Through a series of online learning modules, your employees will learn to:
- Perform daily maintenance checks safely, efficiently and accurately
- Identify lift components and machinery and describe their functions within the system
- Apply safety standards and best practices regarding lift operation
Online technical coursework is supplemented with in-person, on-site assessments and live, virtual industry expert sessions that apply online learning materials to on-the-job scenarios
Oregon State’s Ski Lift Maintenance Technician training takes approximately 6-12 weeks. Upon completion, participants will have the knowledge and skills necessary to qualify for a Level 1 Lift Maintenance Technician role and receive an OSU-backed credential to verify compliance.
About the Center for the Outdoor Recreation Economy
Oregon State University’s Center for the Outdoor Recreation Economy is delivering a new kind of workforce development to meet the unique needs of the vast, remarkably entrepreneurial and rapidly growing outdoor recreation economy.
As a part of OSU’s Division of Educational Ventures, CORE is fueled by both the resources of an R1 research university and deep ties with policymakers and industry leaders across the country.
