Parks Supervisor

**Requisition Number**:2025-48

**Posted**:May 22, 2025

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

**Location**:Port Elgin, ON

**Hours**:40 hrs/week, Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 3:30 pm

**Salary**:$98,401 to $111,819**per year (depending on experience and qualifications)

**Number of Vacancies**:1

**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 team. 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**:
- 10 paid personal days in addition to a generous number of vacation days per year.
- Comprehensive extended health and dental benefits, including an Employee and Family Assistance Plan.
- Enrollment in the OMERS pension plan.
- Access to an Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A passion for investing in our workforce through continuous learning and development.

**About the Role**:
We are seeking a highly motivated individual with progressively responsible experience in municipal park operations to join our team. As the **Parks Supervisor,**reporting to the Manager, Parks and Facilities, you are responsible for the day-to-day operations and maintenance activities for parks, trails, waterfront, and horticulture, including the supervision, and scheduling of staff and contractors. You are responsible for developing, overseeing, monitoring, and continuously improving parks preventative maintenance programs and coordinating inspections, equipment needs, installations and signage to ensure maintenance and accessibility standards are met.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Plan, supervise, inspect, and schedule the overall maintenance operations of over 30 municipal parks and associated amenities including active parks (ball diamonds and soccer fields), turf and grounds management, horticulture and downtown beautification program, waterfront and beach maintenance, trails, waste collection, equipment/machine repair, and seasonal facility opening and shutdown.
- Supervise assigned staff including scheduling of work, staff training/development, new-hire orientation, health & safety and other regulatory compliance, performance management/review, coaching/mentoring, collective agreement administration, timesheet review and overtime/vacation authorization, payroll submissions, progressive discipline, and termination recommendations.
- Ensure Park facilities comply with safety, electrical, plumbing, mechanical system requirements and other applicable legislation, taking necessary action to resolve non-compliance as appropriate.
- Respond to inquiries from and/or liaise with other staff, residents, community and special interest groups, internal departments, suppliers, etc. on service requests and work order activities, parks permits, special events, maintenance issues/requirements, equipment, and other parks operations matters.
- Investigate vandalism/incidents/complaints related to Parks and follow up accordingly.
- Provide input to the Manager in the development of parks maintenance and equipment standards, service level standards, parks and user policies, and other similar guiding parameters for operation.
- Regularly review and evaluate Parks operations and service delivery methods/processes to streamline practices and foster excellence in customer service.
- Administer and coordinate maintenance contracts for parks systems (i.e., irrigation, turf), equipment, other services (i.e., forestry), and materials.
- Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate repairs, maintenance, and capital projects, and resolve complaints or concerns in a timely, professional manner.
- Implement preventative maintenance programs for park assets (i.e. splashpads, playgrounds, trails).
- Oversee and maintain inspections, service requests, works orders in applicable Town programs and systems.
- Purchase necessary materials and supplies for the effective delivery of Parks servic