Senior Parks Maintenance Worker

The Corporation of The City of Victoria•Victoria, BC

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Senior Parks Maintenance Workers contribute to the enhancement and upkeep of the City’s public parks and open spaces, utilizing specialised skill in the operation of industrial vehicles and a variety of hand tools and power equipment, to ensure the continued excellence of the City’s public spaces.

Requirements

Understand and carry out job related instructions.
Operate a variety of industrial-rated equipment and vehicles.
Repair and perform routine maintenance on equipment.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships.
Deal effectively with the public and outside agencies.
Work safely on job sites.
Grade 10
Current and valid Class 5 B.C. Driver's Licence.
2 years of directly related experience in commercial landscape, horticulture and/or tree maintenance including operating industrial landscape maintenance equipment and tools or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

Assist with Park operations by performing assigned tasks in horticulture, arboriculture, turf, and infrastructure.
Mowing, trimming, weeding, digging, raking, and removing refuse and debris.
Preparing, planting, and maintaining flower and shrub beds, landscapes, boulevards, turf, sports fields, and young trees.
Constructing and maintaining pathways, hard infrastructure, playgrounds, irrigation, furniture, playground equipment and ponds and streams.
Maintaining cemetery grounds and assisting with interments.
Grinding stumps, chipping brush and with direct supervision light pruning.
Watering of trees, baskets, turf, and various garden landscapes.
Maintaining tree wells, tree grates, and tree guards.
Flagging and directing traffic around equipment and operations and in public laneways.
Collecting data for the purpose of updating inventory and data collection apps.
Recording accurate daily equipment logs, material slips, time sheets and tree watering or maintenance records.
Providing instructions and information to other staff as required and respond to general enquiries from the public and other departments regarding park maintenance.
Conducting pre- and post-trip inspections, perform minor maintenance to vehicles, tools, and equipment.
Operate various industrial-sized trucks: tanker trucks, aerial lift trucks, truck with trailer, hook lift truck, and leaf vacuum trucks with related equipment.
Operate brush chippers, loaders, and stump grinders.
Operate industrial tractors equipped with turf/horticultural attachments.
Perform small crane operation for loading and unloading materials and equipment.
Operate commercial ride-on mowers to maintain grass in public spaces, requiring proficiency in adjusting and maintaining reel and blade height and in loading and unloading the mower from the trailer.
Operate various light power equipment, such as light rollers, light all-terrain utility vehicles, concrete mixers, and small vibrating tampers.
Operate various small power tools and equipment such as chainsaws, power pole saws, push mowers, rototillers, edgers, blowers, line trimmers, hedge trimmers, sod cutters, grinders, sanders and cut saws.
Operate various hand tools related to park maintenance.
Perform related duties where required and qualified.