Lifeguard II P / T

Description

ABOUT OUR CITY

The City of Sunrise is more than a workplace — it’s a community built on our Three Pillars: Customer Service, Collaboration, and Transparency. We’re committed to creating an environment where innovation thrives, teamwork is celebrated, and every employee has the opportunity to grow and make a lasting impact.

As a full-service municipality and one of South Florida’s premier cities, Sunrise offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, professional development opportunities, and a strong culture of recognition. Whether you’re helping residents, shaping policy, or improving city operations, you’ll be part of a team that’s passionate about service excellence and community pride.

We take pride in being home to the back-to-back NHL Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers, a vibrant arts and entertainment district, and a diverse community that truly embodies what it means to Live, Work, and Play in Sunrise.

Effective January 2026, the City is has launched an Alternative Work Schedule designed to further support employee work-life balance — providing eligible staff with two three-day weekends per month through an every-other-Friday-off model. This initiative reflects our continued focus on flexibility and employee well-being.

This classification involves part-time enforcement of safety for pools and patrons at a City swimming pool. An employee in this position monitors pool patrons’ behavior to prevent accidents; performs rescue operations; administers first aid or CPR; cleans pool area; maintains quality of pool water; collects fees; and reports incidents.  This position also teaches swimming lessons and performs custodial tasks for pools and related facilities.

Examples of Duties

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Responds to various types of pool emergencies; ensures delivery of advanced first aid and/or emergency life-support systems; and establishes and maintains control of an emergency scene.
• Monitors activities of pool patrons from a lifeguard stand or by foot patrol to prevent unsafe practices or accidents; enforces rules and regulations in pool area and dressing rooms to maintain order and effective crowd control.
• Tests and maintains lifesaving and first aid equipment in order to prepare for water emergencies or accidents.
• Conducts chemical test for pool water quality; monitors pool water temperatures.
• Applies chemicals to maintain water quality standards; vacuums pool and cleans pool walls; and back washes pool filters.
• Operates a swimming pool recirculation system, fresh water make-up, and over-flow systems and filter cleaning system.
• Operates and cleans pool filtration equipment.
• Teaches swimming in a swimming pool class; instructs basic principles of water safety and pool etiquette.
• Participates in performing custodial tasks as applied to pool decks and surfaces, offices, locker rooms, bath houses and other support buildings.
• Maintains daily maintenance and pool chemical usage logs.
• Collects pool admission and registration fees.
• Drives City vehicles to maintain satellite pools.
• Performs related work as required.

Requirements

EDUCATION 

• Complete 10th grade in high school or GED.

 

EXPERIENCE

 

• Must have at least two (2) seasons (640 work hours) of full-time (or equivalent) paid experience as a lifeguard.  
• Must be at least 17 years of age.
• Certifications required: Lifeguard Certification; First Aid; AED; and CPR.
• Possession of a valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record.
• Must obtain a valid Florida driver's license prior to hire  

Supplemental Information

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Knowledge of established procedures for providing first aid.
• Knowledge of approved emergency life-support systems for individual emergency cases.
• Knowledge of pool maintenance equipment and techniques.
• Knowledge of approved water rescue methods and specific first aid techniques.
• Knowledge of public relations practices.
• Knowledge of the nature and symptoms of various injuries, illnesses, and diseases.
• Knowledge of swimming instruction and technique.
• Skill in swimming, lifesaving, and first aid.
• Ability to test, maintain, and use lifesaving equipment.
• Ability to rapidly learn rules and regulations relating to pool activities.
• Ability to exercise tact, firmness, and good judgment in enforcing rules and regulations.
• Ability to prevent dangerous situations from arising, to recognize emergencies, and to take effective action.
• Ability to react promptly and correctly in emergency situations.
• Ability to apply first aid techniques including cardiovascular pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
• Ability to carry out routine maintenance functions.
• Ability to work under challenging situations.
• Ability, strength, and agility to perform lifesaving rescue.

The description of benefits for which, an employee may be eligible have been generally summarized in this information sheet for your convenience; however, you must refer to all applicable City ordinances, collective bargaining agreements and/or plan documents for specific terms and conditions.  These benefits may be affected by future changes in policy, collective bargaining, City ordinances and/or legislative actions.  The City reserves the right to increase, modify, decreaseor eliminate benefits at any time.  No benefit is created or maintained simply based on this document, and its contents do not give rise to any contractual rights related to continuing employment or receipt of benefits between the City of Sunrise and its employees.  The information contained herein supersedes any prior benefit sheet(s).

The City of Sunrise is an economic powerhouse in western Broward County encompassing more than 18 square miles. As the host of Sawgrass International Corporate Park – the largest business park in South Florida – Sunrise has its own flourishing job market and currently employs approximately 1,100 employees and numbers continue to rise.
The City takes a very active role in business development, recruitment and prides itself on creating job opportunities for its residents. There are very few communities of similar size that welcome the tens of millions of visitors that we do here in Sunrise, or that can boast the magnitude of regional assets found in our City.
Our City shines and we understand in order to shine brighter; we must continue to recognize our employees as one of our most valuable assets. The City of Sunrise takes great pride in recruiting future employees and developing and retaining current ones by offering our comprehensive compensation and benefits package throughout an employee’s career.

Paid Time Off
1) PTO = Paid Time Off
o At the department’s discretion and approval, regular part-time employees may use PTO.
o PTO may be used for sick or vacation time-off requests.

2) Employee must work a full fiscal quarter before they are eligible for any PTO:

Fiscal Year Quarters            Applicable Months
1st Quarter                              January - March
2nd Quarter                            April - June
3rd Quarter                             July – September
4th Quarter                             October – December

3) PTO earned per fiscal quarter will be earned in accordance with the following accrual table:

Bi-Weekly Average Hours Worked             PTO Earned
                       8 to 13.99                                   2 hours
                       14.00 to 26.99                           4 hours
                       27.00 to 39.99                           6 hours
                       40.00 +                                       8 hours
*Maximum PTO that may be earned in a fiscal quarter is 8 hours (Total of 32 max hours per year)

4) PTO earned will be calculated and posted to employee’s leave accruals on the month following the end of the fiscal quarter.
o Calculation will be based on check dates within a fiscal quarter.

5) Employees may use PTO in four (4) hour increments only.

6) PTO must be requested the business day before requested time off.

7) Employees must use PTO earned in a fiscal year by the end of the following fiscal year or accrued time will be forfeited.

8) There will be no payouts upon separation of service and no cash outs of accumulated time.

9) Any PTO used within a fiscal quarter will not count as time worked for future calculations of any benefit.

10) PTO balances will not transfer with the employee if they go to full-time status.
o Employees that transfer to full-time status are treated as new hires.
o Regular part-time employees will have the ability to request time off in Kronos.
o Regular part-time employees in the Police or Fire Rescue departments will have the ability to request time off in Telestaff.

11) A new PTO code has been set-up in Tyler Munis for payroll processing.

12) Seasonal staff and interns are not eligible to receive PTO.

HOLIDAYS
1) Part-time employees are eligible to earn 4 hours of holiday pay for each official City-observed holiday.
o Currently ten (10) City holidays (4) hours of paid Holidays for a total of 40 hours per year).
o Employees receive four (4) hours of Holiday pay regardless of how many hours they work.
o No look-back period would be applicable.
2) If employee works on a City holiday, the employee will get paid for the actual hours worked plus receive four (4) hours of holiday pay.
3) If an employee is scheduled to work on a City holiday and calls out or fails to show up for work, the employee will not be eligible to receive holiday pay.
4) Holiday pay does not count as time worked.
5) A new PTO code has been set-up in Tyler Munis for payroll processing.
6) Seasonal staff and interns are not eligible to receive holiday pay.