Join Our Team!

Why Work at Rafting NL?

The main reason to work here is simply that Rafting NL is awesome! We offer a fun working environment, great wages (starting at $18-25/hr depending on trip), bonuses, frequent staff meals, and awesome staff events! We do NOT charge you for training, we PAY you to be trained! We also provide accommodations! Most importantly, we accept that raft guides are PROFESSIONALS and deserve to be treated like professionals. We like to start off our season with an EPIC guide-only trip to the famous Main River – which features 24km of continuous class 3/4/5 (depending on flow) rapids in the most beautiful location you could imagine! Every summer we ensure our guides get to the some of the best festivals on the island, and are not afraid to shut down the business when needed for our guides to have a great time! Our annual staff moonlight paddle is another experience that you won’t soon forget! We simply do things differently in Newfoundland & Labrador!

We’re a family run company that has always treated our staff as extended family. We work hard, but we also play hard, and we treat our team as part of the business. We WANT you to share your opinions; we WANT you to ask questions and suggest changes; we WANT you to stick up for yourself and promote your ideas! We run the business with the firm belief that we should always surround ourselves with passionate whitewater enthusiasts and should ALWAYS listen to what they bring to the table. We are all in this industry because we LOVE it! As a team, all of our collective experiences simply help make a better experience for our clients.

If you are looking to work in a company where your voice will be heard and your ideas will be put to full use, we are your company! If you love to work hard, and also relax/play hard, we are your company! If you want to work for a family that actually cares about their staff, we are obviously your company as we often cook big team breakfasts and shut down several evenings each summer for big team suppers!

We will not ask you to suffer through your first year on promises of a better 2nd year – we treat all of our first-year guides with the same respect as our returning guides. We judge you on what you bring to the team, not by how long you have been here or how many years you have been rafting. Some of our best team members have been 1st year college students that just happened to have mad skills and great ideas. In fact, two of our managers started with us as first year students and they are now helping to run the company!

At Rafting NL we accept as a fundamental unalterable truth that all humans deserve to be treated equally. There is no need to list specific qualifiers, the policy is just that simple. We are looking for great raft guides, kayakers and team players. We have zero preference regarding race, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc, etc – all humans deserve complete equality. We as a company accept that it has been a great deal more difficult to succeed in this industry for people of colour, women and minority groups; we acknowledge that it has not been a level playing field, and that the rules have been unfair. We accept that our business is using land that was not ceded by the indigenous Beothuk people that were here for thousands of years before us, and we do our best to respect and care for that land. We cannot right the wrongs of others, but we do absolutely commit at all times to treating all team members, customers, and members of our community as equal humans. We support all peaceful movements with the same goals.

Guiding opportunities begin late May and continue on to the end of September. We ask that all guides stay to the end of August at least but we are very accommodating with our guides who need to return for school. The later in the season you stay, the bigger your bonus!
Interested in applying? Don’t delay as we plan to have our full team in place soon!

SEND AN INTERESTING COVER LETTER AND RESUME TO: info@raftingnl.ca

Hope to see you on the Exploits River!

Cheers,

Erica, Jason, Austin & Sand

So, you never thought of rafting in Newfoundland? That’s okay, neither had we until we moved here! Newfoundland & Labrador is without a doubt Canada’s best kept secret. This province boasts some of the friendliest people in the world, and some of the most stunning landscapes in Canada. I’m sure you’ve seen the commercials! For our 2024 season, we had 100% returning guides, so this is the first time we’ve been open to new guides in two years! DON’T MISS OUT!!

Bottom line, we’re the best rafting company in the world (we may be biased...) on the best island in the world (or at least top 10…), so how could you not want to come work with us?! We even have our own Rafting NL beer!