Lee's Summit Parks and Recreation is an accredited, gold medal award-winning agency with over 45 full-time professionals and over 300 seasonal and part-time staff who provide the Lee's Summit community with dozens of quality recreational opportunities. EOE Employment at LSPR guarantees the opportunity to learn communication and organizational skills, professionalism, and civic responsibility while building outstanding personal and work relationships. $15.00/hourly Responsible for processing high volumes of financial transactions related to the sales of concessions; maintaining critical cash controls; preparing and handling food and concessions items in accordance with established standards and practices; and performing general maintenance and sanitary duties related to operations at the facility. Job Scope No supervisory or budgetary responsibilities. Principal Duties and Responsibilities Prepare and serve food and beverages in accordance with established standards and food safety requirements. Ensure concessions area is kept clean, sanitary and maintained in an orderly fashion and performs opening, closing and periodic maintenance and cleaning tasks as directed. Monitor sales of items, maintain accurate inventory, re-stocks as necessary, and advises management staff of reordering needs. Observe equipment and promptly report to management staff any malfunctions, maintenance needs or other concerns. Processes financial transactions, maintains transaction history, balances cash drawer and maintains critical cash controls related to the sales of concessions items. When assigned, performs duties associated with pool deck, including cleaning and sanitizing restrooms, ensuring pool decks, walkways and adjacent areas are free of foreign objects, performing light landscape maintenance, cleaning, sweeping and mopping of facility areas as needed, and disposing of trash as needed. Enforces facility rules and regulations; takes appropriate action in the event of patron incidents. Provides patron services as needed or directed, including telephone coverage. May be responsible for operating public address system, at the direction of management staff. Maintains safety by following LSPR guidelines, policies and procedures. Attends regularly scheduled staff meetings and mandatory in-service training sessions as scheduled. Ensures enforcement of rules and regulations of LSPR. Performs all other related duties as assigned. The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar or related to the position. Minimum Qualifications: Must be at least 15 years of age; and Must possess valid food handler’s permit through Jackson County, Missouri. Necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to communicate with patrons, co-workers, and management/supervisors, professionally and respectfully. Ability to maintain self-control and composure and set a professional example for the staff and participants. Skills in basic math and ability to process financial transactions. Understanding of food service processes and applicable health codes and regulations. Skills in communications and providing exceptional patron service. Ability to maintain a clean, safe, work environment. Ability to exhibit qualities of maturity, cooperation, and good public image, maintaining self control and composure. Ability to accept direction from Management staff. Ability to relate to the needs of staff and participants. Principal Working Relationships Works with Aquatics Supervisor, Aquatics Manager and Superintendent of Recreation to gain overall guidance and direction in the conduct of duties. Interacts with other Summit Waves staff to provide quality patron experience. Interacts with departmental personnel to provide quality services and to satisfy operational needs. Interacts with patrons and LSPR employees to foster open communication and positive attitude. Physical Classification: Light: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently or constantly to raise or lower objects from one level to another, transport an object, exert force upon an object so that it moves away from or toward the force, or otherwise move objects. If the use of controls requires exertion of force greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The physical activity of this position: Balancing. Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and 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. 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. Hearing. Perceiving 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. This occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles. 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. Stooping. Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles. Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Walking. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another. The visual acuity requirements including color, depth perception, and field vision: The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures. Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The conditions the worker will be subject to in this position: The worker is subject to environmental conditions. Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions. No effective protection from the weather. The worker is subject to both environmental conditions. Activities occur both inside and outside. The worker is subject to extreme heat. Temperatures above 100° for periods of more than one hour. Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions, such as wind and humidity. The worker is subject to noise. There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level. Psychological Demands: The psychological demands of this position require the following while handling psychological stress: Ability to remain objective and calm while speaking with emotional, traumatized, angry or distraught individuals. Ability to follow protocol during periods of high stress and physically demanding conditions. Ability to obtain the most accurate information possible while simultaneously helping someone facing a traumatic event. Ability to be empathetic and compassionate. The City of Lee’s Summit offers a variety of municipal career opportunities with more than 150 job classifications. Those interested in a public service career with the City of Lee’s Summit may review vacancies and obtain applications. Applications and resumes are accepted for all vacant positions. Applications/resumes may be submitted online, on or before the deadline posted. The City is fully committed to a policy of hiring without regard to sex, age, color, race, religion, national origin or disability as prescribed by federal and state laws. The City will require a post-offer background check and physical which includes a drug/alcohol screening. The City is a drug-free workplace.
