Manteca’s new Great Wolf Lodge water park is hiring 590 jobs — here’s how to apply
Great Wolf Lodge, Manteca’s long-anticipated and coronavirus-delayed new water park resort, will begin hiring this week.
The massive new development just off Highway 120 — which includes a six-story hotel, attached 95,000-square-foot indoor water park and 45,000-square-foot family entertainment center — had planned to hold virtual and in-person hiring events from June 29 to July 10. The events will now all be virtual during that time period.
Great Wolf Resorts, the parent company to the nationwide chain of lodges, said it plans to hire some 590 positions to staff the Manteca site. But in light of the new rollback of openings in 19 California counties, including Stanislaus County, the events will now be all virtual.
The water park resort was ahead of schedule for a planned midsummer opening before the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent shutdowns. At the beginning of March, the company held a construction tour for media and dignitaries at which time it revealed it planned to open a full month earlier than its previously planned Aug. 1 date. But the July 1 opening was scuttled because of the global pandemic, and now the resort plans to open Sept. 1.
Hiring, which had initially been slated to start in late April and go into early May, will now start two months later. And instead of large, in-person job fairs, there will now be only virtual events from June 29 to July 10 to fill the hundreds of housekeeping, food and beverage, retail, attraction and entertainment positions.
The interviews for retail, attraction and entertainment positions all will be virtual and can be scheduled by texting “NORCALPACK” to 25000. The interviews for the housekeeping and restaurant positions will also now be virtual and can be scheduled by texting “GWLNORCAL” to 25000. Walk-ins will not be accepted for the food and beverage or housekeeping jobs.
Job seekers can text anytime during the hiring event, but making appointments earlier is encouraged.
The Manteca Great Wolf is hiring some 350 positions in housekeeping and food/beverage, which start from $14 to $15 an hour. It also is bringing about 85 people on board to work retail/attraction/entertainment positions that staff the lodge’s water park, family entertainment area and shops. Those jobs pay between $14 to $22 an hour.
Employees, called “Pack Members” by the resort, receive medical, dental and vision benefits, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) match program, paid time off, paid holidays, parental leave, scholarship opportunities and water park discounts.
The imposing $200 million project is the culmination of about a decade of of back-and-forth negotiations between the city of Manteca and the Midwest-based chain of indoor water-park resorts. The development sits on a 29-acre lot on Daniels Street, next to Costco and adjacent to the Big League Dreams Sports Park off Highway 120.
But Manteca’s love of water attractions dates back much longer. For 30 years, the Manteca Waterslides were a major regional draw before closing in 2004.
For more information on Great Wolf Resorts, visit www.greatwolf.com. To see the lodge’s full range of open positions, visit https://jobs.greatwolf.com.
Story updated July 2, 2020 with new all-virtual hiring event information in light of new statewide coronavirus shutdowns.
This story was originally published June 28, 2020 at 10:22 AM.
