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This position is a perfect opportunity for an up and coming superintendent to be in charge.
SUMMARY Provide members with a course and practice area which provide excellent playing conditions and exceptional turf management. Management includes all related properties.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensure ability to provide excellent member experiences by maintaining outside appearance of clubhouse, golf course, golf practice areas and swimming pool areas while remaining within budgetary guidelines.
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 positive relations with other department heads and membership committees.
Assist Board and members with questions or suggestions regarding course conditions or recommendations for change.
Through continuing education, sustain innovative operating methods in all areas of responsibility.
Maintain a professional image with members, employees, and the community.
Support safe work habits and a safe working environment at all times.
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 members/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 equipment, materials, and resources effectively.
Achieve 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, members and guests.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WOULD BE AS FOLLOWS:
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, members, guests, employees and the general public.
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.
The Athens Country Club was founded in 1921 by some of Athens most prominent citizens, with the purpose of “promoting social intercourse and athletic sports.”
The Athens Country Club has a proud and lively history in the Athens community and in the wider neighborhood of Southeastern Ohio. Today, the traditions continue in a well-maintained and challenging golf course, a full calendar of golf competitions and friendly games, outstanding dining opportunities, and social events designed for the 21st century lifestyles of Athens residents.
The 9 Hole Donald Ross redesign was completed in 1928. While the layout still follows, in broad strokes, the original Sargent plan, Ross substantially altered at least five of the nine holes and, with subsequent changes, only #1 and #9 remain unchanged from George Sargent’s original design. The property offers a full practice range and short game area and one practice green.
