Operator 4 (Parks and Facilities Attendant 1)

**Requisition Number**:2025-34

**Posted**:February 3, 2025

**Position Type**:Temporary, full-time

**Anticipated Contract Start/End Date**:April 2025 to October 2025

**Location**:Port Elgin, ON

**Number of Vacancies**:4

**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 neighbourhoods and amenities. You can replace long commutes with easy lakeshore rides. You can choose to be as active or relaxed as you want to be. You can 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; 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. We engage each other personally and professionally. We welcome change. we 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.

**What we offer you**:

- Enrollment in the OMERS pension plan.- A passion for investing in our workforce through continuous learning and development.

**About the Role**:
This position provides parks and facility maintenance duties for the Town of Saugeen Shores. Reporting to the Parks Supervisor, the **Operator 4** (Parks and Facilities Attendant 1) performs the day-to-day operation and maintenance of Town facilities including sports fields, washrooms, parks and grounds, cemeteries, trails, and gardens. The incumbent will work in a team environment alongside other operators and contractors.

**Job Responsibiities**:

- Perform the day-to-day operation and maintenance of sports fields, parks, trails, cemeteries, horticulture, and grounds.
- Operate equipment such as tractors, light and medium trucks, garbage mini-packer, zero-turns and finishing grass mowers, trail and sports park-grooming implements in parks and grounds.
- Perform manual duties involving basic repairs, and service and maintenance work to park equipment such as turf, ball diamonds, playgrounds, fencing and washrooms.
- Perform manual duties involving facility cleaning, basic repairs, and service and maintenance work to town facilities.
- Assist with seasonal opening and closing of facilities.
- May provide work direction to seasonal student staff.
- Interact and provide good judgement and customer service to park patrons in a courteous manner.

**Education and Training**:

- High School Diploma with a preference for post-secondary training in parks/facility management or related trades/disciplines
- Valid Class G Driver’s License
- Standard First Aid & CPR/AED (or willing to obtain)
- Additional certification through professional organizations such as Certified Parks Technician and Certified Playground Inspector Certificate an asset

**Experience, Knowledge and Skills**:

- A minimum of one (1) year of work-related experience
- Turf management, working from Heights, Playground Safety Awareness, Landscape Exterminators License, Horticulture, Trails etc.
- Customer service experience
- Experience and skills relating to park and facility maintenance.
- Technical experience and knowledge within facility and park Operations such as building controls, electrical systems, plumbing and energy management, turf and grounds maintenance, and sport field maintenance.
- Self-motivated and able to work in a team environment.
- Sound judgment and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers and staff.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Highly organized and detail oriented.
- Computer literacy with experience utilizing Microsoft Office Suite and the ability to work within Automation Systems (irrigation), and Work Order Systems (i.e. Cityworks).

**Hours**:40 hours per week including weekend and evenings shifts

**Wage**:$23.23 to $26.16 per hour based on qualifications and experience (unionized position)

**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 Ontarian