Golf Course Superintendent

Job Title: Golf Course Superintendent
Department: Greens
Reports To: General Manager

SUMMARY
The Golf Course Superintendent will provide the membership with a golf course and practice area in excellent playing conditions.  Athens Country Club is a nine hole Donald Ross design that opened in 1921.  

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure ability to maintain two gold courses in maximum playing condition 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 homeowners.
• Assist Board and members with questions or suggestions regarding course condition 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.
• Assist with swimming pool 
• Clubhouse maintenance and repairs as needed 
• 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 top be performed.
• Follow up and review all work performed.
• Ensure a safe environment for employees, members and guests.

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.

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.

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.