Adventureland Park - J1 Student Lifeguard

Splish Splash Water Park • Altoona, IA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Adventureland Park is seeking enthusiastic individuals for the J1 Student Lifeguard position. This role is crucial for ensuring the safety and enjoyment of guests in aquatic areas. The ideal candidate will have a strong focus on safety, excellent guest interaction skills, teamwork, and a customer service mindset to create a fun and safe park experience. Prevention is key to water safety, and aquatic Hosts provide a safe environment by enforcing park and safety rules. Lifeguards are responsible for ensuring the safety and enjoyment of all guests in aquatic areas. This role is highly safety-focused and requires strong guest interaction, teamwork, and a customer service mindset to create a fun and safe park experience.

Requirements

• Must be at least 16 years of age to comply with Iowa Child Labor Laws
• Ability to work flexible schedule, including evenings, weekends, and holidays
• Demonstrated ability to successfully perform all swim tests, water rescues, assists
• Ability to comply with all uniform policies
• Must possess safety-oriented mindset and understand the importance of complying with all Federal, State, and local regulations regarding aquatics safety standards
• Must demonstrate a willingness to learn and ability to follow instructions
• Must be guest-focused and work well with other Hosts and supervisors
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to swim 200 yards using front crawl/freestyle or breaststroke
• Ability to retrieve a 10-pound brick from at least 6 or more feet of water
• Ability to tread water for 2 minutes without the use of arms
• Ability to stand or walk for extended periods of time
• Ability to swim, wade, and stand (sometimes in moderate currents)
• Ability to frequently kneel, stoop, bend, squat, twist or reach above shoulder-level
• Ability to use hands to grasp, finger, handle, or feel
• Ability to carry, push, pull, lift, and hold objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to aid and physically move guests of varying heights and weights
• Must possess 20/25 correct vision (corrective lens, if required, must be worn while on duty)
• Specific vision abilities are required for this job, including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to see differences between colors and brightness
• Ability to see details of objects that are more than a few feet away
• Ability to read, write, and speak fluent English

Nice To Haves

• Spanish or other bilingual language skills are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Dispatch riders down water slides
• Assist guests onto mats and tubes
• Roam entire area of assigned pool, scan water for distressed swimmers
• Maintain constant surveillance of assigned area
• Maintain a sense of calm in tense, escalated or emergency situations
• Perform water rescues when necessary, using appropriate techniques and equipment
• Physically assist distressed swimmers to safety in both shallow and deep water
• Enforce weight and height requirements
• Provide first-aid to injured guests when authorized
• Quickly and efficiently escalate medical emergencies to the proper authorities, when needed
• Report customer and safety concerns as well as lost children to management
• Protect guest belongings; turn in found items to lost-and-found as soon as time permits
• Clean up assigned area (including parking lots) at end of shift
• Remove unwanted trash or tripping hazards from Aquatics areas
• Assist in other departments as needed
• All other duties assigned by leadership

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Ability to cross-train and learn unique skills across various departments
• Free admission to Adventureland and select parks on your days off
• Invitations to exclusive company-sponsored employee events throughout the season

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees