Ensures the safety of aquatic facility users by preventing accidents, providing water safety education, and executing professional lifesaving services to swimmers in need and maintain swimming pool and facility.
- Monitors swimmers to determine if emergency life-saving services are needed; rescues distressed swimmers; and provides CPR/AED as needed.
- Prevents injuries by monitoring the facility and facility use; provides water safety education; and monitors water quality.
- Maintains a high level of skill and emergency rescue readiness through drills, in-service training, and physical conditioning.
- Maintains discipline at the facility; ensures that safety rules and regulations are followed; reports problems to supervisor; and assists with the removal of patrons causing disturbances or an unsafe environment.
- Provides basic first aid; monitors first aid supplies; restocks first aid cabinets; and completes injury/accident reports.
- Provides customer service; answers questions and provides information to visitors; assists the public when clearing pools.
- Provides swim instruction through the Swim Central initiative; responsible for adjusting curriculum to meet individual student learning needs and end-of-program assessment; instructs aquatic exercise classes and assists with the development and implementation of program curriculum.
- Sets up facilities for daily use, party rentals, and special events.
- Inspects operational and rescue equipment to ensure that it is in appropriate condition; inspects aquatic facility for possible safety problems and reports any findings to supervisor.
- Performs facility maintenance and minor repair duties such as waxing slides, vacuuming pool, cleaning pool tiles, cleaning restrooms, painting, and other cleaning and repair duties as assigned; reports facility maintenance concerns to supervisor.
- Monitors water quality through water testing, records results, and notifies the on-deck supervisor if results are outside of Health Department standards.
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
• Assists in the development and implementation of aquatic activities and events.
• Assists with park special events.
• Performs other related duties as required.
- Must be sixteen (16) years of age.
- Fingerprinting Required.
- Must possess and maintain a current Lifeguard certification.
- Must possess and maintain current CPR, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), and First Aid certification.
- Salary offers above the minimum pay grade may be considered based on qualifications. (Promotions do not get this).
- Essential Employees may be required to work during an undeclared or declared emergency. The County’s Administrative Office will determine who will be required to work on an incident-by-incident basis.
- This job posting is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position.