Parks Maintainer, Facilities

Parks Maintainer , Facilities
Competition Number
2024-169
Job Code
5122
Posting Date
April 11, 2024
Closing Date
April 19, 2024 (at 6:00pm)
Job Status
Permanent Full-Time
The City of Kitchener is a vibrant and dynamic city of approximately 270,000, in the heart of southwestern Ontario. As the largest municipality in Waterloo Region, Kitchener continues to be poised for development and growth, enhancing its reputation as a leader in city-building and innovation, with nationally recognized strategies to build its neighbourhoods, its digital infrastructure and its diverse economy
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Position Overview: The City of Kitchener is seeking a permanent full-time Parks Maintainer, Facilities to perform all operation and maintenance activities at its sports field facilities. The position prepares, maintains, and repairs turf and sports fields including synthetic sports fields. Performs winter work duties including snow plowing, salting, shoveling, and patrolling as well as inspection of ice rinks and tobogganing hills
Responsibilities:

• Performs operating and maintenance activities at sports field facilities citywide.
• Performs turf cultural maintenance (e.g., topdressing, seeding, aeration).
• Prepares proper lining, grooming procedures, and requirements for safe, playable surfaces for baseball diamonds, soccer pitches, football fields, cricket pitches and other programmed sport fields.
• Installs and maintains home plates, pitching points/mounds, batters’ boxes, etc. and lays out sports fields in accordance with official dimensions.
• Uses ActiveNet scheduling system to look up, confirm, and deal with issues related to bookings.
• Conducts sports fields and field lighting inspections as well as schedule lights using Musco Control-Link.
• Maintains record of daily tasks and reports sports field activities and deficiencies.
• Maintains and cleans outdoor sports facilities including players’ benches, backstops, fence lines and under bleachers.
• Assists with irrigation system repairs.
• Monitors sports facility grounds for hazards, vandalism and damage and reports unsafe conditions. Collects and disposes of items. Empties garbage receptacles.
• Operates various types of vehicles and equipment to cut and maintain grass and prepare sport fields for active use.
• Participate in the winter job pool process which results in the winter job duties assignment i.e. snow plowing, hand shoveling etc.

Requirements:

• Minimum Grade 12 or equivalent.
• Valid MTO “G” class driver's license in good standing and be capable of upgrading to a “DZ” license within a 6-month period.
• Successful completion of a Turf Management program at an accredited post-secondary institution or equivalent
• Minimum of 1 year of Turfgrass/Sportsfield maintenance experience and with related equipment.
• Demonstrated communication skills with a customer service focus and the ability to keep accurate written records.
• Must be available to work varying shifts, rotational duties, weekends and overtime as required including available for winter call out as required.
• Must be able to successfully complete required progression criteria as it relates to this job title. [EP1]
• Must be reliable with a good attitude and employment record.

The City of Kitchener is committed to an equity-driven, inclusive, accessible, and barrier-free recruitment and selection process, and to ensuring our workforce reflects the full diversity of the community we serve. We welcome applications from Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ persons, as well as other equity deserving groups.
We will accommodate the needs of applicants under the Human Rights Code and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. Please contact Human Resources at , or to make your needs known, so that we can support your full and equal participation throughout the hiring process.
We appreciate the interest of all applicants. Only candidates whose skills, experience and qualifications meet the requirements of the position will be contacted.
Please note that as per Human Resources Policy HUM-HIR-110, "Employment of Relatives of Staff Members and Elected Officials": "The immediate relatives of staff of the Human Resources Division, all Directors, General Managers, or the Chief Administrative Officer and Elected Officials shall not be employed by the City in any capacity. The immediate relatives of all other Management personnel shall not be employed where such employment would be: 1. within the same Department in the case of permanent full-time, temporary full -time and part-time classifications. 2. within the same Division in the case of students."
Department
Infrastructure Services
Division
Parks and Cemeteries
Union Affiliation
CUPE 68
Number of Positions
1
Hours of Work
40 hours per week, Wednesday to Sunday from 7am to 3pm
Location
Initial Location
Kitchener Operations Facility
City
Kitchener
Compensation
Salary Range
$29.35 - $31.05
Grade/Band
5 (under review)

[EP1]Why is this included? I would recommend removing unless there is a defined reason to include it (HR reason).