GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENT

Job Description

Job Title: Golf Course Superintendent

Reports To: Executive Director

FLSA Status: Exempt

Prepared By: First Tee – West Texas Board of Directors

Prepared Date: September 2024

Summary

Provide youth golfers with courses and practice areas which provide excellent playing conditions and exceptional turf management. Management includes all related properties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure ability to maintain 6-hole course in maximum playing condition while remaining within budgetary guidelines.
• Maintain our state-of-the art RO system, irrigation system, and all maintenance vehicles and tools.
• Provide an effective staff to achieve goals for assigned areas of responsibility.
• Ensure proper completion of all course remodeling, layout changes, and special projects.
• Maintain up-to-date background checks and SafeSport training for the duration of employment. Specifically:
  • Background checks must be renewed every two (2) years.
  • SafeSport training must be completed annually.
• Maintain positive relations with homeowners in surrounding area.
• Assist Board and golfers with questions or suggestions regarding course condition or recommendations for change.
• Through continuing education, sustain innovative operating methods in all areas of responsibility.
• Document and create instructional material of specific golf course operations.
• Maintain a professional image with golfers, employees, and the community.
• Always support safe work habits and a safe working environment.
• Ability to come to work regularly and on time, to follow directions, to take criticism, to get along with co-workers and supervisors, to treat co-workers, supervisors and golfers/guests with respect and courtesy, and to refrain from abusive, insubordinate and/or violent behavior.
• Perform other duties as directed.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Manage all personnel functions by developing, maintaining, and evaluating personnel in effective, efficient, and safe work procedures.
• Manage RO system, irrigation system, equipment, materials, and resources effectively.
• Set and achieve maintenance department goals through development and management of an effective budget.
• Schedule and assign work to be performed.
• Follow up and review all work performed.
• Ensure a safe environment for employees, golfers, and guests.

Golf Course Superintendent Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from four-year college or university; or five years related experience

and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from the Board of Directors, committees, golfers, guests, employees and the general public.

Computer Skills

Ability to operate irrigation programming with a PC desktop computer control panel, ability to communicate professionally through email, phone, and through regular staff meetings.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as statistical inference and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Driver's License, Pesticide Applicator’s Certificate, Member of Golf Course Superintendents of America.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk. The employee is occasionally required to stand; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

Golf Course Superintendent Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is highly variable, although the average noise level is moderate, the range would vary from quiet to loud.

Salary

Salary will be commensurate with experience.

Contact

Please email First Tee – West Texas executive director Liz McCormick at liz@firstteewesttx.org with inquiries.

About First Tee - West Texas

First Tee - West Texas is 1 of 150 chapters in the U.S. and 9 chapters in Texas. The primary goal of all First Tee programs is to provide youth with the opportunity to learn the game of golf, and through that, develop nine core values: Honesty, Integrity, Sportsmanship, Respect, Confidence, Responsibility, Perseverance, Courtesy, and Judgement. In addition to learning golf, students learn about basic golf course operations and landscape maintenance, future educational options and opportunities, making proper introductions, business practices, and business relations. First Tee - West Texas is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and operates out of Midland, Texas.

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