What are the responsibilities and job description for the Golf Course Attendant: Outdoor position at City of Fort Walton Beach?
Department
1000 Recreation & Cultural Services - Recreation
Location
Default (Fort Walton Beach, FL)
Position Type
PT Employee
Salary
15.2982/hr
Open Date
04/06/2026
Description
Employment Status: Part-Time
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
Experience Required: Minimum one (1) year of experience in a related field.
Minimum Education Requirements: High School diploma or G.E.D.
Department: Golf
Direct Supervisor: Golf Course Operations Supervisor
Supervisory Responsibility: Direct (x); Indirect (x)
Primary Work Location: Works primarily outside on the golf course.
Certification: Valid State of Florida driver’s license
Job Summary: Performs semi-skilled and manual work maintaining the golf cart fleet, driving range, and grounds.
Essential Job Functions
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential duties:
- Assist in storing, staging, and returning of golf carts and concentrate on cleanliness.
- Ensure that all carts are cleaned and/or washed as needed.
- See that all carts are accounted for, refueled, and ready for operation.
- Perform relief duties at driving range in collecting range balls and keeping range ball dispenser full.
- Work one-on-one with patrons of the golf club ensuring the highest level of customer service.
- Perform general custodial duties to maintain work area, starter area, and storage barn.
- Perform other job duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA’s) for Position
An employee in this class must have the following knowledge, skills, and abilities upon application:
Knowledge
- Golf club rules and regulations.
- Registration policy and golf club procedures.
- City’s functions, policies, and procedures.
Skills
- Oral communications and relational skills.
- Public relations and customer service.
- Follow and relay oral and written instructions, policies and procedures.
Abilities
- Prioritize tasks at hand.
- Enforce regulations firmly, tactfully, and impartially.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees and the golf patrons.
- Operate and maintain equipment (ball dispenser, ball retrieval machine, blowers, etc.).
- Works outside in varying weather conditions.
Physical Demands
The work is light work which requires exerting up 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. The following physical abilities are required:
oBalancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
oClimbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
oCrouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
oFeeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
oFingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
oGrasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
oHandling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
oHearing 1: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
oHearing 2: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
oLifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
oMental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
oReaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
oRepetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
oSpeaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
oStanding: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
oStooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
oTalking 1: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
oTalking 2: Shouting in order to be heard above ambient noise level.
oVisual Acuity 1: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
oVisual Acuity 2: Including color, depth perception, and field vision.
oVisual Acuity 3: Visual Acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.
oVisual Acuity 4: Have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment.
oWalking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
**This position description is a general guideline for work behavior and is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of all job duties. Therefore, it is also not, nor can it be implied to be, a contract of employment. The contents of this position description may be changed without notice, and employment may be terminated by either party, at will. Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks.