Trades Assistant

1 week ago

Victoria, Canada City of Victoria Full time

**Trades Assistant**:
**Competition Number**:25/175
**Posting Scope**:Internal / External
**Posted Date**:October 2, 2025
**Closing Date: October 9, 2025, 4:30 PM PST**

**Department**:Parks & Recreation
**Posting Type**: Continuous (Regular Full-Time)

**Work schedule**:Monday to Friday ( 40-hour work week)

**Salary**:$ 35.82 per hour, Pay Grade 8
**Job Code**:644
**Employee Group**:This is a CUPE Local 50 position
**Number of Vacancies**:2

**POSITION FUNCTION**
Performs a variety of intermediate skilled tasks in the trades of horticulture, arboriculture, irrigation, construction and maintenance.

**KEY DUTIES**
- Working with or under the direction of a qualified trades person. Prepares, maintains horticultural areas, and works in the greenhouse. Renovates and maintains parks and playing fields, boulevards, and other turf areas. Plants, prunes, and maintains trees. Constructs and maintains parks equipment, hard infrastructure, and furniture, installs, and maintains irrigation and drainage systems.
- Water, fertilize, seed, cultivate as required; grow, propagate, plant, and maintain various annual, perennial, specialty plants, and other nursery stock and trees.
- Keep records and inventories as required; make recommendations on hard and soft landscape improvements.
- Operate a variety of parks industrial equipment such as industrial trucks and tractors with attachments; operate various hand tools and power equipment such as shovels, and line trimmer, rototiller, electric shears, riding mowers, chainsaws, ditch-witch and turf-cutters.
- Provide instructions and information to other staff as required.
- Occasionally respond to general enquiries from the public and other departments.
- Perform related duties where qualified.

**INDEPENDENCE**
- Work is assigned and reviewed by supervisor.
- Issues such as removal of equipment or changes to landscaping are referred to supervisor.

**WORKING CONDITIONS**
**Physical Effort**:

- Lift and move heavy materials and equipment. (often)
- Operate manual and power tools and equipment. (frequent)

**Mental Effort**:

- Normal

**Visual/Auditory Effort**:

- Normal.

**Work Environment**:

- Work outside in all weather conditions. (continuous)
- Exposure to equipment noise. (occasional)
- Work in an environment where protective measure must be taken to avoid exposure to chemicals and fertilizers. (occasional)
- Work in close proximity to moving traffic. (occasional)

**KEY SKILLS AND ABILITIES**
- Organize and prioritize work.
- Use industrial parks equipment, hand tools and power equipment.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships.
- Deal effectively with the public and outside agencies.
- Work and operate equipment safely.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
**Formal Education, Training and Occupational Certification**:

- High school Graduation.
- Certificate in horticulture. (1 year)
- Certified Irrigation Technician Levens 1 and 2 (24 hours)
- Current and valid Class 5 B.C. Driver's Licence.

**Experience**:

- 2 years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

**OTHER**:

- May be requested to substitute in a more senior position.

Education : Other trades certificate or diploma
Experience : 2 years to less than 3 years

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