Head Lifeguard - Romulus Athletic Center

Job Description

Job Description

HEAD LIFEGUARD – Romulus Athletic Center

ROM SFM, LLC

LOCATION: Romulus, MI

DEPARTMENT: AQUATICS

REPORTS TO: GENERAL MANAGER

STATUS: PART-TIME (NON-EXEMPT)

ABOUT THE COMPANY :

Romulus Athletic Center is a premier sport, recreation and entertainment destination focused on improving the health and economic vitality of Romulus, MI. You will be joining a championship level team focused on fun, fulfillment and service built to enrich the community as well as your career and personal growth.

Romulus Athletic Center is managed facility Sports Facilities Management, LLC, a Sports Facilities Companies (SFC) company. SFC is the nation's leading resource for managing and developing sports, recreation, wellness, and events facilities. We provide a highly collaborative and supportive culture that raises our team members to new levels of career growth. Together, we will carve a path in a hyper-growing industry where you will enjoy the journey and learn from the industry's best while having some fun.

SFC has been awarded national recognition as a Top Workplace and is considered a workplace of choice. Our mission-focused company is highly entrepreneurial, team-oriented with a culture centered on collaboration, accountability, excellence, and service. We are growing rapidly and looking for high performers at every level to grow with us.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Head Lifeguard position is responsible for the safety of all guests in and near the pool area and providing direction to lifeguards on shift to maintain safety wellness of guests and Team Members alike.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING :

• Enforcing all pool rules
• Preventing injuries and minimizing hazardous situations
• Providing patron surveillance whenever a patron is swimming
• Provides effective leadership and direction to lifeguards
• Ensures lifeguard staffing, coverage and job duties are compliant with all required standards & regulations
• Instruct various ages in, water safety, and other aquatic programming
• Assign cleaning duties
• Attending in-service training as scheduled
• Assists with conducting aquatics safety audits and reporting
• Assists with executing birthday parties and private events
• Assist the aquatics manager in training, supervising, and evaluating Lifeguards
• Create weekly work and station rotation schedules for Aquatics Team Members
• Supervises the daily cleaning and maintenance of all aquatic areas
• Help train and evaluate the swim lesson instructors
• Help train and evaluate water aerobics instructors
• Supervise chlorine/ PH levels for the pools (make sure chemicals meet the Health Department and manufacturer standards)
• Ability to work well with others
• Completing other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Current American Red Cross Lifeguard certification
• Current American Red Cross Lifeguard Instructor certification
• Experience in customer service, leadership, and team building

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS :

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may work in outside weather conditions
• Employees will be exposed to outside temperatures ranging from 80-105 degrees
• Minimal duties are performed in direct sunlight. The employee is exposed to hot, wet, and humid conditions
• The employee is exposed to cleaning chemicals that must be handled with extreme caution
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds waist high
• May be required to sit or stand for extended periods of time whether indoors or outdoors, and squat, stoop, bend, carry, lift, pull, and push
• Facility has intermittent noise