Horticulturalist

**Horticulturalist
**Competition Number**

2024-196

**Job Code**
- 5120

**Posting Date**

April 18, 2024

**Closing Date**

February 29, 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.The **City of Kitchener** is WHERE you want to work Learn more about the top reasons to join us:
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Position Overview:
- The Horticulturalist is responsible for greenhouse production and maintenance of floral displays and landscaped areas including design, planting, fertilizing, pruning, diagnosis of pests and diseases, and plant health care. This position provides quote estimation, installation, and maintenance of tropical plant inventory, provides design, construction, and layout of new landscaped areas, and applies pesticides.This position may work varying shifts, weekends, overtime, and winter call outs as required.- Responsibilities:
- Work individually or within a team to perform all aspects of horticulture related work including plant propagation, growing, bed design, layout and installation, maintenance of landscape plantings, pruning, and plant health care.
- Work individually or within a team to plan and organize materials, supplies, and equipment to carry out daily job assignments.
- Identify and provide recommendations to Supervisor for all supplementary work required to maintain horticulture beds and support community gardens on City lands.
- Independently monitor and assess landscaping conditions and identify maintenance based on understanding of levels of service, plant health care and season planting plans.
- Operate various types of vehicles and equipment (e.g., tractors, loaders, small power equipment, etc.) as required.
- Perform required inspections of Community Gardens.
- Participate in the winter job pool process which results in winter job duties assignment.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.

**Requirements**:
- Minimum Grade 12 diploma or equivalent.
- Diploma in Horticulture or an approved equivalent certificate in a related field.
- Minimum 1 year of related experience within the field of Commercial Horticulture (or equivalent as determined by the Corporation).
- Valid MTO driver's license class "DZ" in good standing.
- Ministry of Environment Landscape or Structural Exterminator License.
- Proven knowledge and experience of methods and techniques in commercial horticulture relating to greenhouse operations, pruning, fertilizing, cultivation, soil elements, design, layout, and planting, interpreting blueprints, and landscape construction.
- Must successfully complete required progression criteria as it relates to this job title.
- Flexible to work varying shifts, rotational duties, weekends and overtime as required.
- Must be available for winter call out as required.
- Ability to participate as an effective team member.
- Must be reliable with a good attitude and employment record.
- 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, Monday to Friday

**Location**

**Initial Location
- Kitchener Operations Facility

**City**

Kitchener

**Compensation**

**Salary Range**

$30.77-$32.58 per hour

**Grade/Band**

6 (under review)