Lifeguard Team Member

Job Description

Job Description

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A Note About Our Hiring Process

We're excited to be building the team at The Point Surf Park! As a new operation, we're developing our team and processes from the ground up. Our hiring process may take longer than you typically expect, and we appreciate your patience as we carefully review applications and prepare for opening.

Thank you for your interest in being part of The Point Surf Park. We look forward to connecting with qualified candidates as we move through the hiring process!

Lifeguard

The Point Surf Park
Fellsmere, Florida
Full-Time, Part-Time, or Seasonal

About the Position

The Point Surf Park is looking for alert, dependable, and safety-focused Lifeguards to help protect our guests and create a safe, professional, and welcoming water experience.

This is more than sitting in a chair and watching the water. Our Lifeguards actively monitor assigned zones, identify unsafe conditions before they become emergencies, enforce water-safety rules, respond to rescues and medical situations, and work closely with the rest of our Water Safety and Operations teams.

We are looking for people who can stay focused, respond decisively when needed, communicate clearly, and always put safety first.

What You’ll DoProtect Our Guests

• Maintain active and uninterrupted surveillance of assigned water zones, towers, roving areas, or support positions.

• Use approved scanning techniques and zone-coverage procedures.

• Identify distressed or missing guests, unsafe behavior, hazards, overcrowding, changing conditions, and rule violations.

• Intervene promptly and professionally before unsafe situations become emergencies whenever possible.

• Enforce water-safety rules consistently and provide clear instructions to guests.

Respond When It Matters

• Perform rescues, first aid, CPR, AED use, spinal-management procedures, and Emergency Action Plan responsibilities within your training and certification.

• Activate additional resources immediately when a guest or employee may be in danger.

• Respond calmly and professionally during injuries, rescues, guest conflicts, and operational disruptions.

• Participate in missing-person response, severe-weather procedures, emergency drills, and other safety activities.

Keep Your Zone and Equipment Ready

• Complete required pre-shift, opening, rotation, and closing checks.

• Inspect rescue tubes, backboards, oxygen equipment, AEDs, first-aid supplies, radios, towers, and assigned areas.

• Keep rescue and response equipment accessible, clean, and ready for use.

• Immediately report missing, damaged, depleted, or malfunctioning equipment.

Communicate and Document

• Maintain clear radio and face-to-face communication with Lifeguards, Water Patrol, Wave Operations, Operations, and leadership.

• Never transfer visual coverage without a confirmed handoff.

• Complete rescue, first-aid, incident, equipment, guest-removal, and near-miss reports accurately and objectively.

• Communicate unresolved safety concerns during shift handoffs.

What We’re Looking For

• Current Lifeguard certification acceptable to The Point Surf Park, including CPR, AED, and First Aid credentials, required.

• Successful completion of company-required water skills, rescue skills, physical-readiness, certification, and park-specific competency assessments.

• Prior lifeguarding, aquatic safety, surf rescue, water patrol, emergency response, recreation, or comparable experience preferred.

• Strong situational awareness and the ability to remain focused during extended periods of surveillance.

• Calm and decisive response during emergencies and high-pressure situations.

• Clear verbal, radio, and written communication.

• Sound judgment and willingness to ask for help or escalate when safety is uncertain.

• Dependability, teamwork, coachability, and emotional control.

• Ability to maintain required certifications and participate in ongoing training and recertification.

The Kind of Team Member Who Will Thrive Here

You stay alert even when nothing is happening.

You notice small problems before they become big ones.

You are comfortable enforcing a safety rule even when a guest does not love hearing it.

You communicate clearly and do not guess when safety is involved.

You take training seriously because you understand that someone may depend on those skills one day.

Most importantly, you understand that protecting people comes before convenience or speed.

Schedule

Schedules may include early mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, special events, training sessions, weather-related changes, and periods of high guest volume.

Regular and reliable attendance, punctuality, and the ability to remain for the full assigned shift are essential.

About The Point Surf Park

The Point Surf Park is building a world-class surf and recreation destination in Fellsmere, Florida, focused on creating a safe, welcoming, and memorable experience for our guests, employees, and community.

Our mission is to provide a safe, world-class experience that fosters physical well-being, spiritual growth, and authentic community through safe recreation, mentorship, and ministering in a joy-filled surf environment.

The Point is a faith-based organization. Employees are expected to demonstrate integrity, humility, excellence, stewardship, compassion, respect, teamwork, and service.

Why Join The Point?

This is an opportunity to join a new water-safety team from the beginning and help establish the culture and standards of The Point.

You will receive ongoing training, work alongside other safety-focused professionals, and play a direct role in protecting guests while helping create an exceptional surf experience.

If you are alert, dependable, calm under pressure, and serious about water safety, we would love to hear from you.

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Physical Requirements and Work Environment

• Maintain continuous visual attention and situational awareness of assigned water and guest areas for extended periods.

• Swim, paddle, enter and exit the water, perform rescues, provide in-water support, and respond quickly and effectively in emergency situations.

• Stand, walk, bend, kneel, crouch, climb, rotate between stations, and move safely on wet, slippery, uneven, or elevated surfaces for extended periods

• Lift, carry, push, and pull rescue equipment and assist guests during rescues weighing up to 50 pounds, or more with team assistance when appropriate.

• Communicate clearly over radio and in person.• Work outdoors in Florida heat, humidity, rain, wind, direct sunlight, glare, noise, water, and changing weather or wave conditions.

Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals to perform the essential functions of the position, provided required safety standards can be maintained.