Job Description

Ready to Start Your Career with the City of Temple?

The lifeguard plays a vital role in ensuring our pools are safe for our patrons. Lifeguards observe swimmers, inspect equipment, and assist with the opening and closing of the pool. Must be able to work flexible hours, weekends, and holidays. This is a seasonal position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Monitors pool area during guard rotations while guards are entering and exiting the chair
• Enforces all pool rules and regulations
• Rescues and provides first aid and/or CPR when appropriate; notifies emergency medical personnel when necessary
• Works at front desk operation and delivers great customer service to patrons
• Accepts and receives payments
• Performs safety inspections and basic maintenance procedures to assure safety
• Maintains pool and pool area, checks chemical level in pool, cleans/vacuums pool, picks up trash, cleans decks, and cleans bathroom
• Assists with programming of aquatic events
• Uses RecTrac for daily attendance and financial operations
• Attends in-service training weekly to review lifeguard skills
• Arrives to assigned shift on time; adheres to attendance and shift trading policies
• Performs other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
• Completion of two years of High School
• Pass pre-employment swimming skills test and basic water safety practices and usage of water safety equipment test
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience as a Lifeguard
Certificates and Licenses Required Prior to Lifeguard Shift
• American Red Cross Lifeguarding with CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aide – training provided by the City

Thank you for your interest in the position. Please note only those selected for an interview will be contacted.