Daytime Lifeguard

Splish, splash, and come have a blast as a Lifeguard at Dakotah! Sport and Fitness! You will provide a safe environment for all swimmers and guard the pool in an efficient manner, enforcing all rules consistently. Enjoy weekly pay, career growth opportunities, and fitness benefits. Starting pay is $17 an hour for certified lifeguards. This is a part-time opportunity!

Schedules Available: Tuesday/Thursday 8:30AM-3:30PM, Monday/Wednesday/Friday 8:30AM - 3:30PM

Job Overview: The purpose of this position is to maintain a safe environment in and around the pool area, to contribute to membership sales and retention, to ensure personal attention to member and guest needs, and to maintain pool equipment and facilities.

Create Your Path: The Work You’ll Do:

• Actively pursues membership sales and recruits members and guests into activities and events.
• Ensures membership retention, repeat daily guest usage, and referrals through a high level of member and guest service delivery and response.
• Guards the pool in a safe and efficient manner enforcing all rules consistently. Ensures and enforces member and guest safety by visually and verbally monitoring. Observes and acts on any emergency procedures.
• Provides service enhancements to members and guests. Assists members as necessary with pool and rockwall equipment, tables, chairs, loungers, strollers, and bags. Encourages members and guests to ask questions. Assists members with questions, concerns, and directions.
• Monitors the pool area for cleanliness and assists in maintenance of pool and rockwall. Assists in the daily cleaning of gutters, stainless steel, pool deck, tables, garbage cans, and any other items on the daily list. Assists with opening, closing and afternoon pool and rockwall maintenance/cleanliness checklists to ensure the cleanliness and maintenance of the Aquatics Area.
  
  
  

Job Requirements:

• 1 year lifeguard experience.
• Lifeguard Training Certification.
• C.P.R. and First Aid Certification or ability to obtain within 90 days of employment.
• Has the physical abilities to perform the required job duties with or without accommodations, including on feet 50% of time.
• Capacity to handle and lift up to 25 lbs. as needed.
  
  
  

Who We Are: The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community contributes both time and financial resources across the region, state, and country. The SMSC has donated more than $400 million to organizations and causes, provided $500 million in economic development loans to other tribes, and contributed millions more to support regional governments and infrastructure. The SMSC's Native Green initiative annually diverts hundreds of tons of waste from landfills, has implemented compostable containers throughout our properties, and restored hundreds of acres of prairie land. Team members are eligible to participate in SMSC Gives, a community outreach initiative that organizes various opportunities in the local community. To empower its team members to take part in the Dakota tradition of giving, the SMSC provides paid hours to team members to volunteer at events. Learn more at shakopeedakota.org