Employment

Southeast Sea Kayaks & the Ketchikan Kayak Company are dedicated to providing exceptional, guided sea kayaking tours, E-Bike & Hiking tours and Zodiac Boat Adventures in Ketchikan, Alaska. Our team is the most important part of creating incredible experiences for our guests. Many of our employees are usually local to the Ketchikan area but we do have several openings for people interested in coming to Ketchikan for the summer.

We are committed to employing people with a passion for the outdoors who love meeting new people and  sharing adventures and facts with visitors, many of whom are trying something new on vacation.

We are looking for enthusiastic, physically fit, self motivated guides who work well with a team but enjoy taking the lead on their own tours and can operate safely without management looking over their shoulder all day. Our tours can involve 2 guides, but often split and have our guides out with 6 guests on their own for a couple hours at a time.

All applicants must be US citizens or legally able to work in the USA.

Each team member needs to have a valid US Drivers license and pretty clean driving record to be added to our company auto policy.

Sea kayak guides will lead tours at Clover Passage or Orca Cove. Being a sea kayak guide is the best way to connect with guests in an intimate, wildlife setting. With a 6:1 guide to guest ratio, hosting guests away from the downtown crowds, you’re guaranteed to love being out on the water guiding all season long. Some days you’re following down the coastline watching them feed over and over again, other tours the entertainment falls more to the knowledge and experience of the guides and their ability to get guests excited about finding the immense array of intertidal creatures many guests may have missed if left to paddle on their own.

Tours often start at 8:00am and a full day can be between 7 and 10 hours, but the schedule can vary due to the day and cruise ship schedules.

We schedule each guide 1 day off per week to keep the team small and guarantee everyone gets in a minimum of 40 hours per week over the course of the season.

Starting pay with us as a Guide:

A) $22.75/hour + Tips. ($20.75/hour + $2.00 per hour bonus if/when you complete the agreed upon employment agreement).

Or

B) $17.00/hour + Tips. + Free Employing Housing. ($15.00/hour plus tips + $2.00 per hour bonus if/when you complete the agreed upon employment agreement).

E-Bike & Hiking Guides should enjoy biking, hiking and express genuine love for learning about plants, trees, fungi, moss, birds and all the amazing aspects of the rain forest that guests could easily over look if they just took a walk in the woods on their own. Sharing Alaskan history, culture and ecology is a big part of our tours while keeping an eye out for guest safety, black bears, salmon arriving to spawn soon, whales and other marine mammals along the coast etc…

Tours often start at 8:00am and a full day can be between 7 and 10 hours, but the schedule can vary due to the day and cruise ship schedules.

We schedule each guide 1 day off per week to keep the team small and guarantee everyone gets in a minimum of 40 hours per week over the course of the season.

Starting pay with us as a Guide:

A) $22.75/hour + Tips. ($20.75/hour + $2.00 per hour bonus if/when you complete the agreed upon employment agreement).

Or

B) $17.00/hour + Tips. + Free Employing Housing. ($15.00/hour plus tips + $2.00 per hour bonus if/when you complete the agreed upon employment agreement).