Bellhaven Pool Company, lifeguard staffing and commercial pool care in the Northfield metro

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Someone is always watching the water.

Guards on the deck, clean water underneath, and one number to call when either needs attention.

Lifeguards Apply Here (555) 555-0142

What weactually do

We keep neighborhood and commercial pools open. That means testing the water, running the pumps and filters, fixing what breaks, and putting trained guards on the deck for the hours the pool is in use.

Most of the job is the part nobody sees. A skimmer basket that has not been emptied costs a pump. A chlorine reading drifting for a fortnight costs a week of closure in July. We write down what we found on every visit and send it to you, whether or not anything went wrong, so the first you hear of a problem is not a phone call from a resident.

A pool is a machine that people swim in.

Treated like plumbing it stays open all season. Treated like decoration it closes in July, and it closes on a Saturday.

Bellhaven Pool Company
Pools we look after
Neighborhood, club and commercial pools
Where we work
Northfield, Ashgrove, Weller Park, Kingsbridge and the surrounding area
Before any quote
We walk the site first. Nobody prices a pool off a photograph
Guard training
We run our own certification course rather than send staff elsewhere
Through the season
In-service drills and unannounced skill audits at the pools we staff

Sixservices

We walk the deck before we quote it. Sight lines, entry points, the hours you actually get swimmers, and how many chairs it takes to see the whole water. Guard counts come out of that walk, not out of a table.

  • Certification Guards come off our own course with rescue, first aid, CPR and AED. We teach it ourselves so we know what the certificate is worth.
  • In-service and audits Skills go stale over a season. Guards drill through the summer and we audit them unannounced, at your pool, on an ordinary afternoon.
  • Gate attendants If the board has decided against guards, an attendant still checks who comes in, keeps the deck and the bathrooms straight, and closes the gate at the posted hour.

How a guarded day runs, in full

Free chlorine, combined chlorine, pH, alkalinity, calcium, cyanuric acid. Baskets, skimmers, the pump seal, the filter pressure and how far it has crept since the last backwash. A pool with two hundred swimmers a weekend does not get the same schedule as one with twenty, so it does not get the same visit count either.

  • Controller integration Where a facility runs automated dosing we tie into it and read the log, so a drifting feed shows up as a number instead of as cloudy water.
  • Written after every visit Readings, work done, and anything the technician wants on record. The report goes out the same day whether the visit was interesting or completely routine.
  • The same technician Where scheduling allows, the same person keeps the same pools. Somebody who has seen a filter every week knows when it is behaving oddly.
  • Turned out properly Marked vehicles, uniform, and a technician who introduces himself to whoever is at the gate. It is a residential street on a Saturday morning.

Every reading, and what each one is for

A repair quote arrives with what we found, what we think caused it, and what happens if you leave it until the off season. Some things can wait. We will say which.

Water side

  • Leak detection and repair
  • Plumbing and valve replacement
  • Skimmer replacement
  • Main drain cover compliance
  • Tile and coping, piecework

Plant room

  • Pump and motor replacement
  • Filter and media replacement
  • Heater replacement and installation
  • Variable speed upgrades
  • UV and ozone secondary sanitation

Deck and surrounds

  • Pool lighting replacement
  • Splash pad repairs
  • Bead blasting and scale removal
  • Pressure washing

Plaster has a lifespan and so does coping. Renovation work is cheapest when it is planned against that lifespan rather than against a failure, which is why we would rather have this conversation two seasons early than one season late.

  • Replastering
  • Coping Stone Replacement
  • Tile Replacement
  • Deck Replacement and Spray Coating
  • Shade Structure Installation
  • Splash Pad Renovation
  • Splash Pad New Build

We will do this without taking the maintenance contract afterwards. A second opinion is worth less if the person giving it is bidding for the work.

Operational Consulting

  • Operations audit We watch a normal day. Staffing, rotations, what the guards actually do at the change, and where the procedure on paper and the procedure on the deck have quietly diverged.
  • Code review Local health code, accessibility, drain compliance and signage, checked against the pool as built rather than as drawn.
  • Emergency action plan Written for your layout, your entry points and your nearest responding station, then rehearsed with the staff who would run it.

Financial & Strategic Consulting

  • Season budget What the pool costs to run, split into the parts that recur and the parts that will not come back next year.
  • Reserve planning Remaining life on the surface, the coping, the pumps and the heater, so the replacement lands in a budget instead of in an emergency.
  • Contract review What your current agreement obliges the vendor to do, and what it quietly leaves to you.

Staffing & Training Consulting

  • Guards or attendants An honest read on which your pool needs, including the cases where the answer is neither.
  • Training programme Built for your staff and your water, not lifted from a manual written for a fifty metre competition pool.
  • Audit schedule A drill calendar somebody will actually keep, with the records kept in a form that survives an inspection.

  1. The host must be a resident in good standing with the community.
  2. Bookings sit outside the pool’s posted operating hours, never inside them.
  3. Holiday weekends are not available.
  4. Both the community and Bellhaven approve the booking, well ahead of the date.
  5. No alcohol on the deck.
  6. Guards watch the water. They do not clear up afterwards, and a booking that runs long because the deck is not clear is charged for the extra time.
  7. Everything ends at the hour agreed when the booking was made.

Every visit,in writing

This is what arrives the evening of a maintenance visit. It goes out whether the visit was interesting or completely routine, because a report you only receive when something is wrong is a report you have to chase.

Specimen visit report. Figures are illustrative.
Free chlorine
2.4ppm
Combined
0.2ppm
pH
7.5
Alkalinity
95ppm
Calcium
260ppm
Cyanuric acid
42ppm
Filter
12psi
Water
84°F

Done on site

  • Baskets emptied, skimmer weirs checked
  • Brushed walls and steps, vacuumed to waste
  • Backwashed, filter reset to clean pressure
  • Chlorine feed refilled, dose rate unchanged

Technician note. Filter pressure has climbed steadily over the last three visits and the media is due. Not urgent this month. Worth putting in the autumn budget rather than finding out on a Saturday in July.

Lifeguard jobs with Bellhaven Pool Company, at pools across the Northfield metro.

Guard jobs,this season

The job is four hours of watching water and thirty seconds that matter. Most days nothing happens, which is the point, and the reason the training is as heavy as it is.

You get a stand at one of our pools, a rotation, and a supervisor who was doing your job two summers ago. Shifts are set a fortnight ahead so you can hold a second job or a class timetable around them. If you need a Saturday off, ask early and you will usually get it.

Returning guards move up. Head guard, then site lead, then scheduling, and the people who run our summers came in through this door.

If you are dependable, awake at seven, and able to tell somebody twice their age to get off the diving board, we want to talk to you.

Not currently certified is an accepted answer on the application below. We teach the course ourselves.

Paid hourlyPlus season bonuses for referrals, for finishing the summer, and for guards who pass their audits clean
Rota, not rouletteShifts published a fortnight ahead, so you can hold a class timetable or a second job around them
Trained hereRescue, first aid, CPR and AED, taught in house at a discount for new guards

Lifeguard Training Courses

Two evenings and a swim test The online portion is done in your own time. Fee and dates are confirmed when you book, and payment is due on the first in-person session.

Requirements:

  • Complete online portion of the class
  • Attend both in person classes
  • Able to swim 50 yards continuously without a rescue tube followed by 50 yards with a rescue tube across the chest
  • Tread water for 1 minute
  • Retrieve a brick from the bottom of the pool

Call or text (555) 555-0142 for the next dates.

Apply Here

LifeguardApplication

Fill this in and somebody reads it, not a filter. If you have guarded before, say where. If you have not, say so and answer the certification question honestly, because it changes nothing about whether we call you.

Not currently certified is an accepted answer. We teach the course ourselves and new guards get it at a discount.

About you

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Your certification

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Where you want to work

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This opens your email app with your answers filled in, addressed to hello@bellhavenpool.com, so you can attach your certification before you send it. If your device has no email app set up, call or text (555) 555-0142.

That is in

Somebody on the hiring side reads every application. You will hear back either way.

If you would rather talk to somebody now, call or text (555) 555-0142.

Start withthe walk

Every quote starts with somebody standing on your deck. It takes about an hour, it costs nothing, and it is the only way to price guard coverage without guessing. We work across Northfield, Ashgrove, Weller Park, Kingsbridge and the surrounding area.

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Office
2200 Halford Ave, Suite 210
Northfield