Performance and Wellness Specialist

Position Overview

The Performance & Wellness Specialist delivers credentialed golf-specific fitness, mobility, strength, recovery, and general wellness programming for members. The position maintains gym and locker-room readiness and works closely with golf instructors while remaining within approved nonclinical professional qualifications, privacy limits, and safety procedures.

Key Responsibilities

Fitness Training and Member Assessments

• Coaching Programs: Provide one-on-one and small-group strength, mobility, balance, and rotational-performance training within approved credentials, screening results, and individualized fitness plans.
• Fitness Screening: Conduct non-diagnostic mobility and physical-performance assessments, retain required waivers and progress notes, and refer medical concerns to qualified licensed professionals.
• Instruction Alignment: Coordinate conditioning objectives with Golf Instructors and leadership without offering medical diagnosis or treatment outside licensed scope.

Wellness, Recovery and Member Safety

• Wellness Education: Provide general guidance on hydration, sleep, movement habits, and physical recovery within professional scope; do not prescribe clinical nutrition or physical therapy.
• Recovery Services: Guide authorized stretching and nonclinical recovery tools only after appropriate screening, training, consent, and safety review.
• Immediate Safety: Monitor fitness-floor technique and equipment use, maintain current CPR/AED competence, and follow emergency response and incident-reporting procedures.

Gym and Locker Room Operations

• Facility Readiness: Maintain safe, clean gym and locker-room conditions; inspect cables, cardio machines, turf, free weights, and recovery equipment and report defects promptly.
• Amenities and Supplies: Keep towels, hygiene items, wipes, and hydration stations ready; document consumption and request replenishment through approved purchasing channels.
• Booking and Records: Maintain coaching schedules, attendance, approved point-of-sale activity, and confidential member-progress records under access/retention controls.

Qualifications & Experience

• Current recognized Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) and CPR/AED certification required; TPI or comparable golf-specific credentials preferred.
• Zero (0) years of experience with applicable technical certification or two (2) years without, together with demonstrable coaching and gym-safety competence.
• Knowledge of athletic mobility, biomechanics, general recovery, gym operations, consent/screening, emergency response, and nonclinical professional scope limits.

Required Skills

Core Professional Skills

• Communication & Service: Communicates accurately, promptly, and respectfully with employees, customers, vendors, and supervisors.
• Accountability & Integrity: Owns assigned work, reports discrepancies and errors promptly, and follows approved escalation channels.
• Planning & Timeliness: Prioritizes assigned tasks, meets required deadlines, and documents handoffs and open items.
• Collaboration: Coordinates across departments while respecting each process owner and the applicable division of duties.
• Accuracy & Confidentiality: Maintains precise records and protects nonpublic employee, customer, project, and company information.
• Continuous Improvement: Practical improvements are identified and participation in required training, meetings, and corrective actions is maintained.

Role-Specific Skills

• Performance Coaching: Applies golf biomechanics, mobility, exercise programming, fitness assessments, and measured progress tracking.
• Member Safety: Maintains screening and consent, nonclinical coaching boundaries, CPR/AED, emergency response, and safe workout modifications.
• Facility Operations: Manages gym/locker cleanliness, recovery tools, basic equipment inspections, amenities, and protected wellness records.

Physical Requirements

Specific details on the physical requirements of this position are outlined in the physical requirements documentation.

Job Details

• Exempt/Non-exempt: Non-exempt
• Department: Operations
• Supervisor: Director of Golf Operations (Golf Instruction and Fitness function)
• Supervises: None (may direct assigned facility-support tasks without personnel authority)
• Work Context: On-site presence is required; remote work is not applicable.
• Salary Range: Established through the applicable offer letter, wage sheet, collective bargaining agreement, or prevailing wage determination and governing standards, as applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer Summary

The company provides equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants, prohibits unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, and follows applicable federal, state, and local employment requirements. Employment decisions are based on legitimate business criteria, qualifications, and applicable law, consistent with company policies.