Part Time Starter/Ranger

Town of Trumbull•Trumbull, CT

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Starter/Ranger works at Tashua Knolls Golf Course for an average of 19.5 hours per week. The schedule rotates from week to week and requires flexibility to work any day or evening, including weekends and holidays. The pay rate is $16.75 per hour. As a Starter, the employee enforces Trumbull Municipal Golf Regulations, assigns golfers starting times, helps maintain pace of play, reconciles green and cart tickets, and keeps records of players and golf carts. The role also involves managing behavior and crowding around starting tees and practice greens, cleaning and staging carts, and communicating with the Ranger and other personnel by walkie-talkie. As a Ranger, the employee monitors course conditions and player behavior while traveling the course by golf cart. The Ranger helps maintain pace of play, promotes safe and careful cart use, protects the course and equipment, enforces course regulations and dress code, and communicates with the Starter and other personnel to prevent or respond to problems and emergencies. The employee is responsible for assigned equipment, including signing out and returning a walkie-talkie and maintaining and cleaning the Ranger’s cart. The position works under the supervision of a Senior Starter and does not supervise others.

Requirements

Ability to follow written and oral instructions.
Basic knowledge and understanding of golf rules and etiquette and Trumbull Municipal Golf Regulations, with willingness to enforce them.
Valid driver’s license.
Ability to work weekends, evenings, and holidays.
Ability to lift 50 pounds.
Ability to stand and walk for long periods of time.

Responsibilities

Enforce Trumbull Municipal Golf Regulations, including course rules and dress code.
Assign starting times to golfers and call groups to starting tees in assigned order.
Help maintain the pace of play and proper intervals between groups.
Reconcile green and cart tickets.
Maintain the Starter’s list of players, entry and exit times, and assigned cart numbers.
Track golf carts in use, assess their condition at entry and exit, and report new damage.
Maintain crowd control and proper behavior around starting tees and practice greens.
Clean and stage golf carts.
Communicate with the Ranger, Starter, and other personnel by walkie-talkie about play, course conditions, problems, and emergencies.
Take responsibility for assigned equipment, including signing out and returning the walkie-talkie and plugging it in at the end of the day.
Travel the full course by golf cart to monitor conditions and player behavior.
Promote smooth, efficient, and safe course operations by maintaining pace of play and enforcing proper, careful golf-cart use.
Help maintain the course and prevent damage to the course and equipment.
Interact with people tactfully and, when necessary, forcefully.