Splash Pad Operator - 2024

This is a seasonal position responsible for the safe effective management of the City’s 12 splash pad sites.  

• The interview process is scheduled to begin early February 2024.  
• Save the date! Splash pads are set to open early May 2024. 

• Safely operate a motor vehicle to travel from site to site
• Monitor and correct chemical balances at the City’s splash pad locations
• Help distribute chemicals from a central point to pools and splash pads throughout the city
• Help with changing of chemical barrels at pool locations
• Enforce all City of Wichita Parks pools policies and procedures
• Completes daily chemical records, attendance numbers, and shift reports
• Ensure facility cleanliness and maintain operations of chemicals and filtration of the pool systems.
• These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive. Other job-related duties may be assigned as needed.

• Ability to listen to, read, interpret, and apply instructions received
• Ability to handle chemicals that require a respirator
• Ability to lift containers weighing up to 50lbs up to a 4 ft height
• Ability to move containers weighing up to 125lbs using mechanical assistance
• Ability to lift and move large, sometimes bulky objects weighing up to 80lbs with assistance
• Ability to climb steps or ladders
• Ability to move about quickly and stand, walk, reach, bend, stoop or squat, as needed to perform assigned tasks
• Ability to work outdoors in unpleasant weather conditions
• Ability to tolerate airborne nuisances associated with open grounds and windy conditions
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with associates and the public
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing
• An employee will not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace.

• Must be at least 18 years old or older.

• Must have a current valid driver’s license. 

• Must have knowledge or ability to learn basic water chemistry. 

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need of a sponsorship.  

Offers of employment are contingent upon passing a pre-employment physical, which includes drug screening, respirator testing, and upon satisfactory evaluation of a criminal record check.  

Salary : $19