What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lifeguard position at City of Allen?
FULL SALARY RANGE: $14.01 - $17.16 Hourly
The City:
With over 100,000 residents, the City of Allen is a dynamic and welcoming community. The City of Allen's strong economy, diverse population, great educational institutions and quality of life makes it the ideal place to work, live, and play. The City of Allen has something to offer for everyone.
The City's Mission, is "To achieve excellence in managing development of the community and in providing city services so that conditions of living and public confidence are continually enhanced".
- People First – Giving priority to others
- Respect – Treating others with courtesy and dignity
- Integrity – Serving with honesty, trust and hard work
- Deliver – Following through on commitments while exceeding expectations
- Excel – Creating an innovative and improving work environment
The Position:
Under direct supervision, ensures the safety of customers in and around pool areas. This is accomplished by visually scanning pool areas, identifying distressed swimmers or customers, performing in-water rescues and assists as necessary, completing CPR when appropriate and providing first aid care to customers. Other duties may include providing customer service support, maintaining pool operations and equipment, assisting with locker room and bathroom maintenance and interfacing with other City employees and citizens. This position does not provide direction to other employees.
The following duties ARE NOT intended to serve as a comprehensive list of all duties performed by all employees in this classification, only a representative summary of the primary duties and responsibilities. Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties listed and may be required to perform additional, position-specific duties.
- Ensures the safety of customers at City aquatic facilities by visually scanning all areas of the aquatic facility, determining whether customers are in distress, performing in-water rescues and assists when necessary, providing first aid to customers when appropriate and completing CPR for rescued customers when necessary.
- Maintains pool operations and equipment by vacuuming the pool, scrubbing pool equipment and pool walls for sanitization purposes, operating the power wash machine to cleanse deck areas, removing debris from pool water and picking up debris from deck areas.
- Ensures the sanitization of aquatic facilities by disinfecting bathrooms with the appropriate cleaners, sweeping and mopping floors, picking up debris from patron areas and gathering lost items.
- Provides customer service by offering assistance to customers, responding to customer inquiries, addressing customer concerns or problems, educating customers on facility rules and procedures and directing customers to appropriate the persons or areas.
- May assist in Swim School operations as needed.
Education & Experience
Less than a High School Diploma or equivalent with no prior work experience.
Special Requirements:
- Must be at least sixteen (16) years of age
- American Red Cross Lifeguarding (including Deep Water) with CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid Certification. Requires brick dive test in deep water based on depth of pool assignment.*
*Applicants who currently do not have all required certifications at the time their application is submitted, must attend and pass all classes prior to receiving an offer of employment.
City policies, and procedures.
Lifeguarding techniques and procedures.
Chemicals used in pool maintenance.
Occupational hazards and safety procedures
Skill in:
Establishing and maintaining working relationships with professional and support staff, the public, and City employees.
Providing outstanding customer service and conflict resolution.
Identifying opportunities to improve customer service and satisfaction.
Working effectively in a high-pressure environment with changing priorities.
Focusing on tasks with constant distractions.
Effectively communicating orally.
Ability to work varying shifts including evenings and weekends.
Ability to stand and walk for long periods.
Ability to work outdoors.
Ability to work with mechanical, chemical, electrical, and fire hazards.
Ability to lift, push, pull, reach, kneel, crouch, crawl, bend, twist, climb, and balance frequently.
Ability to swim nonstop for 200 yards without the use of any additional flotation devices.
Ability to tread water for two minutes nonstop without using hands.
The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as needed.
Salary : $14 - $17
