Assistant Superintendent

Educational Requirements

• Requires a minimum of two years of turfgrass experience as an intern or post-graduate.
• Requires working knowledge of the maintenance of golf course tees, fairways, and greens; maintenance practices for golf course turf; the planting, cultivation, pruning, and caring for plants, shrubs, and trees; the characteristics and proper use of various fertilizers and soil conditioners; herbicides and pest control methods and materials; drainage control methods; and irrigation system, including wells, pumps, and automatic controls.
• Requires valid driver’s license.
• Requires current state certification or licensing as a pesticide applicator within 90 days of employment.

Experience Requirements

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES, SKILLS, APTITUDE AND OTHER TRAITS: 

Agronomic

• Must be able to develop and implement basic agronomic programs using primary and secondary cultural practices with regard to drainage, soil structure, irrigation, fertility, pest control, height of cut and traffic wear.
• Strong technical and analytical focus to ensure optimal agronomic, water, soil and environmental management programs. 
• Consistently seeks out best-in-class conditioning methodology including tools and practices. 
• Successful experience in similar or more challenging climates. 
• Results-oriented cultural, fertility, and pesticide programming. 
• Establishes and maintains golf course maintenance operations and facilities to help create a safe, productive, and enjoyable environment for employees, as well as golfers and onsite visitors. 

Leadership

• Humble, trustworthy, strong character, and impeccable integrity. 
• Demonstrates creativity, flexibility, and outside-the-box thinking and assures consistent achievement of goals. 
• Lead by example approach to setting standards of operation. 
• Develop a workplace culture reflective of top performing organizations and ensure consistent focus on motivating and retaining employees and promoting ethics and values. 
• Collaborative in nature, and ability to work effectively with various constituents. 

Chemical and Fertility

• Performs routine safety inspections on all spraying and fertilizer equipment.
• Maintains chemical and fertilizer storage and mixing/filling areas in compliance with county, state, and federal regulations and is responsible for the safety and direction of chemical/fertilizer handlers and/or helpers.
• Responsible for properly mixing and applying herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides to associated turf grasses, trees, and ornamentals.
• Manages all spray and fertilizer applications on a daily to weekly basis and reports to the DOA.

Equipment Operation & Care

• Strong understanding of golf course equipment from mowers, skid-loaders, aerifiers, sprayers, and small equipment.
• Ensures that the equipment cooling system is working at all times; refills fuel daily; cleans equipment daily, and reports equipment problems or failures to the DOA and Head Equipment Manager.
• Provides basic preventative maintenance on equipment as directed by the DOA and for returning equipment to the designated location at the maintenance facility.
• Responsible for training and safety. 

Special Requirements

SUCCESS TRAITS OF INDIVIDUAL:

• Professionalism, punctuality, dependability.
• Considerate, friendly, an exceptional ability to work within a team environment. 
• Excellent communication skills are a must.
• Positive attitude and desire to be a part of close-knit club community including long tenured staff members ranging from 10-40 years of experience. 
• Dedicated to advancing within the industry, and eager to gain experience in all facets of golf course maintenance and construction. 

INITIAL PRIORITIES OF POSITION:

• Contributes to planning and supervising the agronomic inputs and maintenance of greens, tees, and fairways; schedules work and supervises the employees and the use of the equipment.
• Helps facilitate instruction to equipment operators on the operation and care of mowing and other equipment; supervises pesticide applications and/or operates and calibrates pesticide application equipment; supervises and participates in the operation and maintenance of pumps, and in the maintenance of irrigation and drainage systems.
• Assists in personnel management and evaluation, employee safety, personnel discipline and may also modify the daily work schedule based on professional interpretation.

Job Benefits

• Salary - $80,000-$90,000, commensurate with experience
• Health, Dental, Vision, and Voluntary Life Insurance are available. Family coverage is available. Insurance plans are available on the first of the month following date of hire. 
• Life Insurance- Group Life Insurance provided on the first month following the date of hire.
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability- Provided on the first month following date of hire.
• 401k Plan- Eligible to participate in the first month following the date of hire.
• Meals- Employee meals are provided during Club season (November 1 – April 30).
• Golfing privileges, uniforms provided, association dues sponsored for GCSAA and state/local chapter, continuing education support.
• Vacation: 1-week paid vacation for the first two years and increase as per Club Policy thereafter.
• PTO Pay: 6 paid personal days per anniversary year (48 hours).

Date Job is Available

17 hours ago

Salary

$80,000 to $90,000 per year

Overtime: No

Job Application Instructions

To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume (PDF format) to the Director of Agronomy, Dane Alexander, at dalexander@indiancreekcountryclub.org. Use the subject line “Indian Creek Country Club Assistant Superintendent – [Your Name]”.