Part-Time Recreational Complex Attendant

JOB SUMMARY

This position performs work of routine difficulty providing assistance to the public and maintaining cleanliness at Dog River Reservoir Recreational Complex. Duties include general involvement with the public to collect reservoir entrance fees, help visitors back up boat trailers, answer visitor questions, and making sure visitor facilities are clean and well maintained. The position reports to the Recreational Complex Leader and may require working weekend shifts. 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Collects entrance fees for the site.
• Answers visitor questions and provides information.
• Maintains and cleans restrooms, pavilions, and other public areas/facilities of the Reservoir, which includes, but is not limited to, picking up trash, keeping paper towels and toilet paper supplied in the restrooms, sweeping restrooms and pavilion, etc.
• Assists visitors in backing up boat trailers and removing boats from the water.
• Assists security in ensuring that all visitors to the sites are duly authorized to use the facilities, and that all applicable Authority, County, State, and/or Federal rules and regulations and laws are safely followed while on site.  
• Keeps the Reservoir cleaned and maintained daily.
• Assists with loading and unloading rental boats.
• Performs other related duties as required/assigned.   

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

High School diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) and related experience with boats and fishing. 

Special Qualifications:

Possession of a valid State of Georgia driver’s license and satisfactory Motor Vehicle Record (MVR). 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• Knowledge of Authority, local, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures affecting fishing, recreation facilities, and reservoir operations.
• Skill in the safe and proper operation of watercraft. 
• Skill in oral and written communication.
• Skill in the use of tact, diplomacy, and the ability to deal effectively with a wide range of people, positions, and personalities. 
• Ability to communicate with the public and create a good public image.
• Ability to follow oral and written directions with little detail. 
• Ability to skillfully back up boat trailers onto the boat ramp.  
• Ability to access various work sites and to work out-of-doors under adverse weather conditions.  
• Ability to exercise judgment and discretion and to get along well with others.
• Ability to swim.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work is medium work which requires exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering: picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing: sufficient to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction; ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound. 
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Mental Acuity: sufficient to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers
• Standing: particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Talking: sufficient to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity: sufficient to observe violations of codes, to effectively operate standard office equipment; ability to read and write reports, correspondence, instructions, drawings, etc.; and to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment, by both day and night.
• Walking: sufficient to move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.   

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This employee works daily in outdoor weather conditions and is sometimes exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles.  The noise level in this work environment is usually quiet, with occasional exposure to loud noise.

Work is performed in an office environment.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.