Maine’s premier City to work and live is becoming Maine’s premier municipal employer - welcome to Biddeford, Maine, where citizens are proud of their community and employees thrive!

The City of Biddeford, dubbed as Maine’s most resurgent city, is seeking dynamic people to join our award-winning team of professionals. As an employee in Maine’s youngest community, you can become part of a team that is guiding its economic revival. You will need to be highly motivated, talented, with a strong desire to make a difference in the daily lives of citizens.

Biddeford is conveniently situated 15 miles south of Portland and 90 miles north of Boston. Just a few miles east of the city center lies a magnificent coastline with long stretches of sandy beaches framed by rocky promontories. Biddeford has experienced exceptional renewal and has a nationally-recognized creative downtown community, recently exemplified in the Heart of Biddeford’s selection as a 2022 recipient of the Great American Main Street Award (GAMSA). Additionally, Food & Wine Magazine recently ranked Biddeford’s food scene as among America’s best. The City has been proactive in working with the private sector to stimulate more than $100 million in private investments over the last decade, with an additional $200 million of new, mixed-use private investment, including just over 1,100 residential units to be developed in the near term.

The City of Biddeford’s Recreation Department has a great opportunity for a public facing position working with the busy summer traffic and patrons at Pool Beach. The person in this position should be friendly, able to work under pressure while maintaining composure, have a professional approach with the public, the ability to give and receive direction, and be reliable and able to work well with others.

Responsibilities

• Conducts opening and closing procedures of the parking area
• Maintains the safety of the public
• Cooperates with all staff
• Acts as a role model with a positive attitude for all staff and beach patrons
• Ensures that the parking lot is safe for parking; closes lot when full and informs the public of changes in parking availabilities
• Knows the policies, rules, and regulations related to the beach and water and can convey those to the public
• Oversees care and appropriate use of equipment pertinent to the job functions
• Provides support as needed to lifeguards in emergencies
• Ensures a proper rotation of guards daily
• Responsible for the general appearance and cleanliness of both the parking area and bathrooms during operation hours
• Remains alert in order to detect potential hazardous conditions and patrons in distress
• Acts in emergencies to rescue and render appropriate first aid procedures to patrons as necessary
• Is aware of weather and ocean conditions to inform the public
• Responsible for courteously answering questions from beach patrons
• Enforces the rules consistently and fairly
• Perform other related duties as required, directed, or as a situation dictates

Required Qualifications

• Ability to enforce parking rules and regulations
• Ability to exercise good judgment in enforcing rules firmly and tactfully
• Ability to react quickly and calmly
• Ability to remain alert for long periods
• Ability to work well with colleagues and the public

Equal Opportunity Employer

The City of Biddeford’s mission is to cultivate and sustain a diverse, inclusive, equitable, welcoming, and belonging-based workplace where employees actively practice solidarity for the greater good of the work environment and employee experience.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the City of Biddeford shall employ, develop, and work to maintain the best qualified person(s) available without discrimination to: age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, dimensions of gender, disability, citizenship, veterans’ status, ancestry, national origin, and/or political affiliation or any other status protected by law.

Equitable access to services and employment is available and those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to this application and/or the interview process should notify the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Coordinator at 207.286.0589.

Job Types: Part-time, Seasonal

Pay: $17.00 - $19.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20 – 40 per week

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Evenings as needed
• Extended hours
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Ability to Relocate:

• Biddeford, ME 04005: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person