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"Steve will be a tremendous asset to Yellowstone National Park," Superintendent Lewis noted. "His leadership and management skills will be invaluable and greatly enhance Yellowstone's maintenance program." The Yellowstone Maintenance Division is one of the most diverse and complex operating divisions in the National Park Service with approximately 38 percent of the park's operating budget being spent on facility maintenance and operations. Included among the more than 300 Yellowstone maintenance employees are engineers, landscape architects, mechanics, sewage and water treatment plant operators, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, heavy equipment operators, and general workers.
Mr. Iobst began his career with the National Park Service (NPS) as a student assistant Civil Engineer under the NPS Coop Program. In 1974 Iobst received his first permanent position as a Civil Engineer at the Denver Service Center in Denver, Colorado. He advanced to Project Supervisor Civil Engineer, Branch of Construction in 1977, and remained at the Denver Service Center until 1979 when he moved to Yellowstone National Park. From 1979 to 1983, he worked for Yellowstone's Maintenance Division as an Environmental Engineer, moving to the park's Concessions Management Office in 1983 as a Civil Engineer. In 1983 he accepted the position of Management Assistant for Planning and Development in the Superintendent's Office. Iobst left Yellowstone in 1988 for a position as the Chief of Facility Management for Rocky Mountain National Park. In 1997 Iobst returned to the greater Yellowstone area as Assistant Superintendent at Grand Teton National Park; he served as Acting Superintendent at Grand Teton from November 2000 to February 2002. Since mid-June 2002, Iobst has taken on the leadership role for Yellowstone and Grand Teton in developing future winter use in the two parks.
Iobst noted that he and his family "are looking forward to our return to Yellowstone and the opportunity to, once more, work and live in this astounding area." He and his wife Debbie have three children and one grandchild.
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