Head Lifeguard (Full Time)

Posting number: DRAC

Department: PARK & RECREATION

Division: AQUATIC CENTER

Job classification: HEAD LIFEGUARD - PART TIME (NO TMRS)

Posting type: Open

Categories: Parks and Recreation

Summary

The City:

THIS POSTING MAY CLOSE AT ANY TIME ONCE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED

Join the City of Allen—a vibrant community of over 100,000 residents where strong economic growth, excellent schools, and an exceptional quality of life make it a great place to live, work, and play.

Our mission is simple: “To achieve excellence in managing community development and city services, continually enhancing the quality of life and public confidence.”

At the City of Allen, our employees bring the PRIDE values to life:

• People First – Prioritizing others
• Respect – Treating everyone with courtesy and dignity
• Integrity – Serving with honesty and trust
• Deliver – Following through and exceeding expectations
• Excel – Driving innovation and continuous improvement

We do work that MATTERS! Join a team that serves our community and makes a real impact every day. Learn more about the City of Allen at allentx.gov.

The purpose of this position is to ensure customer safety in and around swimming pool areas. This is accomplished by overseeing the activities of lifeguards, conducting lifeguard training, visually scanning swimming 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 swimming pools and equipment, managing swimming pool chemicals, assisting with locker room and bathroom maintenance and interfacing with other City employees and citizens. This position provides direction to other employees

Examples of duties

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.
   

• Provides lifeguard training by completing in-service sessions as scheduled, illustrating safe procedures for completing in-water rescues, teaching lifeguards according to Red Cross policies and procedures and evaluating lifeguards on skill assessments.
   
• Oversees lifeguard activities by determining which swimming pool locations are best suited for observing pool areas, assigning lifeguards to a designated location, calculating work and downtime for each lifeguard, relieving lifeguards for breaks, ensuring that lifeguards remain alert, responding to employee concerns and inquiries and providing assistance when appropriate or requested.
   
• Provides customer service support 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 persons and areas.
   
• Manages swimming pool chemicals by checking swimming pool chemicals regularly, retrieving chemicals from storage, determining which chemicals need to be added or replenished, adding the appropriate chemicals to maintain safe swimming conditions and ensuring swimming pool equipment is operating correctly.
   
• Ensures the sanitization of aquatic facilities by disinfecting bathrooms with the appropriate cleaners, sweeping and mopping floors, picking up debris from patron areas, gathering lost items, ensuring appropriate chemicals are added to swimming pool water and providing assista