Golf Services Attendant (J1 Out of Country)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:                    Outside Golf Service Attendant      

Department:              Golf Operations 

Reports To:                Director of Golf, Outside Services Manager

FLSA Status:             Non-Exempt 

SUMMARY:  Assists the membership and guests with organizing their clubs, carts, and games before and after the completion of play. Also, ensures that the organization and operation of the practice range facilities runs efficiently and smoothly.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

• Must always be courteous, friendly, and attentive to membership needs.
• Keeps work area clean and always organized.

• Keeps fleet of golf carts clean and maintained, batteries and tires charged for next day’s use.
• Operates the club’s beverage cart when needed.
• Filling coolers with water and ice at the beginning of the day.
• Attends the bag drop and staging area so that members’ and guests’ clubs are set to play before they are ready to go.
• Ensure that members and guests never handle their own bags.
• Sets up and/or arranges members’ and guests’ golf bags as requested.
• Assists the members and guests with any special requests.
• Properly stores members’ clubs that use bag room facility.
• Checks driving range and short game practice areas on an hourly basis.
• Responsible for the setup of the practice range facilities at the beginning of the day, including moving all furniture and the closing of the practice range at the end of the day.
• Keeps the practice facility organized: bag racks, apple crates, club washers, towels, tees.
• Responsible for the cleanliness of the teaching, practice facility storage as well as the golf balls being used on the practice facility.
• Must dig out all buried practice balls daily.
• Must remove and throw away all cut or worn practice balls.
• Regularly checks the perimeter of the practice facility for any errant shots.
• Responsible for the collection of golf balls from the practice facilities.
• Ensures that practice facilities are clean picked on Monday evening to enable maintenance to perform weekly tasks.
• Organizes the set-up of the professional’s teaching area and all related teaching aids that may be used for personal instruction and/or clinics.
• Responsible for the monitoring and enforcing of the dress code policy and other practice facility rules.
• Keeps in contact with the golf shop, starter, and rangers via radio.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Must be knowledgeable with Golf Operations.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

High school diploma or equivalent.  Must be knowledgeable in Word, and Excel.  Ability to pick up and learn other computer programs as may be required.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Good spoken and written English skills.  Must be able to write grammatically correct.  

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add and subject two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10s and 100s. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop or kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.  The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust to focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, extreme cold, extreme heat, and risk of electrical shock.  

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

SAFETY

Safety must be embraced by all employees.  We need to work safely at all times and assist others to work safely by following departmental and company safety procedures.