Fitness & Wellness Specialist

Alliance Residential Company•St. Louis, MO

9d•Onsite

About The Position

A Work-Fit Wellness & Fitness Specialist supports current Work-Fit customers by collaborating on the planning, organizing, communicating, developing, delivering, and measuring of Work-Fit services. The specialist contributes to quality and compliance to support service growth and excellence. The role supports employee use of fitness facilities, including participant orientation, safe and comfortable facility use, fitness program guidance, and enforcement of equipment-use, safety, and hygiene rules. It also supports group exercise instruction by facilitating instructors, auditing classes for appropriateness and participant safety, communicating schedules, collecting feedback, and teaching classes as approved. The specialist maintains fitness equipment and inventory, monitors facility maintenance and safety, manages supplies, and prepares for emergencies through first-aid kit and AED checks and regular drills. As needed, the specialist supports wellness program promotion and events, works with site stakeholders, and reports program metrics, participation, survey data, and risk trends.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a specified health field such as Health Promotion, Exercise Physiology, Fitness, or Health/Wellness.
Maintain CPR/AED certification.
Three years of professional experience in a specified health field.
Experience delivering services within a fitness center, fitness programming, group fitness instruction, wellness and health promotion campaigns, presentations, events, and projects.
Effective written communication, including proper grammar and spelling, and oral communication skills with individuals and groups.
Ability to manage time to meet daily and weekly duties and responsibilities.
Ability to work without direct supervision.
Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and ability to conduct online research.
Proficiency with electronic recordkeeping and client databases, as applicable to each program.
Comfort delivering services in manufacturing, warehousing, office, and outdoor work environments.
Ability to maintain a consistent and flexible schedule to meet the needs of the Work-Fit Team and customers.

Nice To Haves

Professional certification in the specified health field is preferred.

Responsibilities

Orient participants to facility rules, guidelines, and equipment, and support safe facility use.
Assist participants with fitness program design and performance based on their goals, capabilities, and constraints.
Respond to participant questions, concerns, and suggestions; enforce equipment-use etiquette, safety, and hygiene rules.
Support group fitness instruction, including instructor preparation, scheduling, equipment availability, class audits, participant feedback, and communication of class schedules and changes.
Instruct classes as approved.
Check equipment regularly, arrange maintenance, escort suppliers within the facility, report equipment needs to the client Boeing Program Manager, and complete annual capital inventory.
Conduct facility walk-throughs, identify and mitigate hazards, report issues to the client Program Manager, and manage supplies inventory and ordering.
Check first-aid kits and AEDs, conduct emergency drills, and verify emergency instructions are posted.
As needed, build relationships with site stakeholders and promote client Well Being programs according to the annual planning calendar.
Maintain stakeholder communications, implement central communications plans, collaborate with local Industrial Athlete teams, promote programs during job conditioning cool-downs, and maintain promotional boards.
As needed, plan and support flu shot programs, screening events, campaigns, local awareness events, and incentive programs.
Support related programs and events as needed, including Mother’s room usage, therapy dog events, on-site 5Ks, blood donation drives, benefits fairs, safety fairs, and family day.
Use Health Assessment data to identify local risks and program needs, communicate plans to leaders, and report targets, participation, survey data, and risk trends.