Parks and Facilities Summer Student

1 week ago

Port Elgin, Canada Town of Saugeen Shores Full time

**Posted**:February 14, 2025

**Position Type**:Temporary, Full-Time

**Anticipated Contract Start/End Date**: July 2025 to September 2025

**Location**:Port Elgin, ON

**Hours**:35 hours per week

**Hourly Wage**:$17.20 to $19.20 per hour

**Saugeen Shores: Both city and town, wrapped in a village.**

Choosing to work and live in Saugeen Shores gives you an unparalleled choice of easy-going lifestyles, economic opportunities, and nature at every turn. You can truly create your own village in this growing, diverse community of neighborhoods and amenities. Replace long commutes with easy lakeshore rides, and choose to be as active or relaxed as you want to be. Make all these great choices without sacrificing family life, schools, and even access to the wide world. Nestled on the shores of Lake Huron with forests and farms all around, Saugeen Shores is the promise of both cities and towns, wrapped in a village.

**The Team**:
We take our team-first culture so seriously that we wrote a Team Saugeen Charter to celebrate and protect it. Our shared role is to keep Saugeen Shores safe, well-serviced, growing, and vibrant in ways that respect the public and reflect our members. We develop careers from the inside first, engage each other personally and professionally, welcome change, and embrace new ideas. We do more than live with work processes; we seek to continuously improve them. And we have each other's backs—because that is what great teams do.

**Join Us**:
**About the Role**:
Summer crews assist in the maintenance of Parks, Beaches, Gardens and Facilities throughout the Town of Saugeen Shores.

**Summary of Available Positions**:

- Facilities Maintenance Crew
- Garbage Crew
- Gardening Crew
- Grass Crew
- Harbour Attendants
- Sports Field Crew
- Tourist Camp Attendants
- Washroom Crew- Waterfront Crew

Learn more about the summer student positions available, and our recruitment, selection, and onboarding process on the **Seasonal Employment page.**

**Qualifications**:

- Valid G2 or G Class Driver's License.
- Must be enrolled in a diploma, degree, post-grad certificate or trade program
- Valid Standard First Aid certification, or willing to obtain prior to start date is preferred
- Comfortable with self-direction as well as working in a team environment Successful applicants are required to provide their own CSA approved footwear.

**What we can offer you**:
- Set schedule with predictable hours up to 35 hours per week- Friendly and fun work environment- Clear expectations
- Strong leadership
- Opportunity to work outside along our beautiful waterfront beaches

**Application Process**:
The Town of Saugeen Shores is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We will accommodate the needs of applicants under the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). The Town of Saugeen Shores will make every effort to accommodate applicants with disabilities in its recruitment and selection process. Information received relating to accommodation needs of applicants will be addressed confidentially in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, R.S.O. 1990 and will be used for the purpose of this employment opportunity only.

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