Golf Course Superintendent

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Job Location

Golf Course - Cocoa Beach, FL

Description

JOB TITLE: GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENT

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB

A generous benefits package includes 11 paid holidays, PTO, health, dental, and vision options.

Under general supervision performs supervisory and administrative work directing grounds maintenance work at the City golf course. Work involves inspecting the golf course to determine maintenance, irrigation, mowing, fertilizer, pesticides and/or irrigation needs. Responsible for supervising a staff of maintenance personnel, ensuring adherence to policies, procedures and standards; assists and advises subordinates, as necessary, resolving problems as non-routine situations arise including hiring, training, assigning, scheduling, granting leave, appraising and disciplining, etc. Responsible for developing and administering maintenance program budgets, including oversight of expenditures for supplies and equipment. Reports to the Golf Course Manager

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Plans, assigns, directs and supervises activities of golf course maintenance staff, ensuring adherence to policies, procedures and standards; assists and advises subordinates, as necessary, resolving problems as non-routine situations arise.

Administers or makes recommendations for routine personnel matters affecting subordinates, including hiring, training, assigning, scheduling, granting leave, appraising and disciplining, etc., submitting such records and reports as required.

Develops and implements maintenance schedules and standards, and inspects golf course to determine specific needs for irrigation, mowing, fertilizer, pesticides, etc.

Develops operating and capital outlay budget proposals for golf course maintenance program, and administers funds provided; approves or prepares purchase requests for appropriate expenditures, and ensures maintenance of proper accounting records.

ADDITIONAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Assumes duties of maintenance staff, as necessary, including, but not limited to, applying fertilizers and pesticides to golf course turf, operating a variety of specialized lawn and turf mowers, sighting and cutting pin placements on greens, identifying areas available or restricted from golf cart traffic, and maintaining and repairing equipment, mowers and vehicles.

Performs other related work as required.

Qualifications

MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Graduation from high school and 6 to 9 years of experience in golf course maintenance work, including supervisory experience; or any combination of training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities. Must have experience with Paspalum grass on putting surfaces. Experience with Toro Lynx irrigation systems preferred, as well as experience on a multi-hole golf course.

Continuing Turf Maintenance Education: Stays up-to-date on latest turf maintenance and pesticide courses. Continues education of latest practices and standards.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Having a Restricted Use Pesticide (RUP) license issued by the State of Florida Department of Agriculture to apply pesticides.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED

TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment and machinery including computers, calculators, copiers, etc. Must be able to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical demand requirements are for Medium Work.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates and/or assistants.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read correspondence, reports, schematics, logs, labels, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, budgets, logs, etc., according to prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak to people with poise, voice control and confidence.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in standard English, and mechanical and landscape maintenance terminology.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize simple mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; interpret graphs; compute discount, interest, profit and loss, ratio and proportion, etc.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment, knobs, switches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with persons acting under stress.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone and two-way radio.

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