Golf Course Maintenance

Department / Division: Golf Course Maintenance / Operations

Status: Regular, Full-time

Pay: $16.38 - $16.88 per hour (DOQ)

Reports to: Assistant Golf Course Superintendent

Benefits: Full Benefits-eligible, Parking and Amenities

Retirement: State Employee Retirement System (GSEPS)

Closing Date: Open until filled.

* Note:

This position is subject to close once a satisfactory applicant pool has been identified. Applicants should include all relevant experience; incomplete applications will not be considered.

Note:

Applicants who do not meet the minimum requirements for Golf Course Maintenance II may be considered for the minimum requirements of Golf Course Maintenance I.

Jekyll Island is dedicated to maintaining the delicate balance between nature and humankind through conservation, education, and preservation. Surrounded by salt marshes, expansive oceanfront, and ancient maritime forests, it is situated within the chain of the Golden Isles and just a few miles from St. Simons Island, Sea Island, and Brunswick. As a State Park, Jekyll Island is a coastal haven where nature and humans peacefully co‑exist.

Under general supervision, Golf Course Maintenance I or II is responsible for various golf course maintenance duties. All assigned tasks include the preparation and playability of all courses, the driving range, and clubhouse grounds daily for guest and member play. Essential functions include mowing greens, tees, fairways, collars, roughs, edging, raking, and smoothing bunkers. In addition, complete grass trimming around all trees, cart paths, hazards, or other objects, rotating tee markers, cup changing, and maintenance of ball washers.

• Perform numerous essential functions, such as mowing greens, tees, fairways, collars, roughs, edging, raking, and smoothing bunkers.
• Completes trimming grass around all trees, cart paths, hazards, or other objects, rotating tee markers, changing cups, and maintaining ball washers.
• When applicable, pick‑up trash, remove limbs, straw, or other debris, and safely operate a chainsaw.
• Cleans and is responsible for the overall maintenance of drains and ditches.
• Responsible for the repairs, maintenance, and painting of all structures and golf course accessories.
• Bunker maintenance, including debris removal, raking, and edging.
• Moving tee markers for daily play.
• Operate light handheld machinery, including weed eaters, backpack blowers, and cart path edgers, to maintain cart paths, lake banks, yardage blocks, etc.
• Operate fairway mower to maintain soccer field and fairways, greens mower to maintain golf course greens and tees for daily play.
• Operate Lastec mower to maintain primary roughs and grounds master to keep secondary roughs.
• Operate sweeper to maintain high‑traffic areas such as clubhouse grounds and cart retrieval.
• Operate tractor and implements; blower, bush hog, etc.
• Operate club car with buffalo blower to remove debris from the golf course and drag mat to spread clippings.
• Maintained signs, ropes & stakes, bollards, timbers, and ball washers to ensure a positive golf guest experience.
• Perform general golf course maintenance, fill divots, and repair damaged turf.
• Assist with drainage installation and maintenance, removing and replacing sod, and cart path repair.
• Perform general housekeeping of maintenance shop and storage areas.
• Perform general preventative equipment maintenance, such as grease, oil, gas, etc.
• Ability to perform verticut greens and roll greens.
• Assist Turf and Irrigation managers with the seeding of greens and tees.
• Perform all other job‑related duties as arise and directed.

• Minimum of one (1) year of relevant golf course, landscape, etc., experience in Golf Course Maintenance I.
• Minimum of two (2) years of relevant…