Lifeguard

Company Overview:
Boost your career here at the new Margaritaville Resort of Cape Cod . Join our team for a journey filled with island fun, and the spirit of optimal hospitality, where your growth potential is as endless as the fun, sun, and good vibes. Seeking all shift, full and part time, including internships.

Summary:
Responsible for performing a combination of tasks to ensure beach safety and security and maintains hotel beach premises in a clean and orderly manner, thereby contributing to a pleasant, positive guest experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Monitoring activities in and near the waterpark through guest surveillance. Preventing injuries by minimizing or eliminating hazardous situations and behaviors. The following duties are not to be construed as exclusive or all inclusive. Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Perform daily assigned duties by Waterpark Manager/Assistant and or Supervisor(s)
• Provide exceptional guest and customer service to visitors of the Waterpark.
• Monitor activities in and near the water & waterpark through constant surveillance.
• Provide emergency care and treatment required until the arrival of emergency medical services.
• Inspect water facilities, equipment, and water to ensure safety and stability.
• Enforce waterpark rules and regulations and educate guests of the policies.
• Ability to quickly recognize and respond to all emergencies.
• Administer First Aid, CPR and Automated External Defibrillator (AED.
• Work together with other lifeguards, staff, and management.
• Perform all duties of certified lifeguard.
• Proficient and performance of emergency policies & procedures.
• Be alert of the danger areas (diving boards, ladders, diving areas, slides, lazy river current, rock walls and obstacles in walkways etc.)
• No talking to anyone while on the lifeguard stand, except to correct or discipline swimmers.
• Perform job excellence in interpersonal communications in a courteous and tactful manner to all guests, co-workers, and team members.

Additional Tasks and Responsibilities

• Complete in-service assignments to remain proficient in physical and or other skills.
• Swim a minimum of 150 yards weekly (3 laps)
• Performs related duties as required.
• Participate in team activities and training.

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience:
High School Diploma or equivalent. Minimum 6 months of related work experience. Certified Red Cross Lifeguard training certificate or equivalent. American Red Cross standard First Aid certified.

All Applicants must:
Be at least 16 years of age.
Be in good physical condition and able to maintain condition.
Be licensed and able to administer as a lifeguard (CPR, First Aid, and AED) certified.
Have maturity in judgment.
Wear protective swimwear.
Follow all instructions/directives of the Waterpark Management.

Other Requirements – Certificates/Licenses

• Must have successfully completed and kept updated licensing course as a lifeguard.
• Must present a work certificate, given by the school district, if under the age of 16.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability to read policies and procedures.
• Ability to write.
• Ability to speak effectively and courteously with customers, both in person and on the phone
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to carry out duties reliably and predictably.

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.
Able to swim 300 yards continuously while demonstrating a breathing technique . Tread water for two minutes using your legs only. Pass a timed swim including diving, surfacing, and retrieving a weighted object. Able to exit the water without using a ladder or stairs.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and talk or hear. The employee is required to walk; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must lift and/or move more than 50 pounds on occasion. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust 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 the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; and extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.