Gardener

**Posting Number**: PC**-25-03**

**Job Type**:Permanent**Full-time, Union**

**Salary Range**:$67,371.20 to $80,683.20 per year**

**Location**:Barrie, ON - Onsite**(see below for more details)

**Posted**:Tuesday**, January 14, 2025**

**Application Deadline**: Tuesday**, January 28, 2025 at 11:59 pm**

**The Opportunity**

The Parks and Forestry Branch is part of the City of Barrie’s Operations Department. The Branch is responsible for the management, maintenance, and ongoing care of over 3,100 acres of waterfront, parkland and open space including 127 parks and 145 kilometers of trails. Services include horticulture displays and maintenance, turf management, shoreline maintenance, maintenance of parks amenities such as playgrounds, play courts, picnic shelters, and spray pads, waste collection, landscape construction, City's outdoor rink program, greenhouse operations, trails maintenance, and winter snow removal operations.

Under the general guidance and direction of the Horticulture Foreperson, the Gardener position is responsible for the maintenance of all the annual and perennial plants in the City of Barrie. Specifically, this position performs and oversees staff in the planting, pruning, cultivating, watering and fertilizing of flower beds located in the City’s parks,downtown areas, reverse lot frontages and right of ways. Additionally, this position performs greenhouse maintenance duties in accordance with seasonal requirements. Overall, this position plays an integral role in the upkeep of the City’s parks and other outdoor areas by carrying out horticultural activities and maintaining the City’s gardens.

**Our Culture and Qualifications of the Job**

**Corporate Culture**:Your workplace values align with our corporate values of **_Strive, Share and Care_** and you want to join us in providing exceptional services and programs to build a prosperous, growing and sustainable community.

Equally important to what we do is _how_ we do it - your actions reflect our core accountabilities of **_Personal Awareness, Teamwork and Collaboration, Respect and Inclusion, Innovation, _**and **_Service Excellence, _**which define how we work together to succeed.

**Education**(degree/diploma/certifications)
- Two (2) year College Diploma in Horticulture or related discipline
- Position Equivalency Code: C

**Experience**
- Two (2) years of horticultural experience performing duties related to the above mentioned major responsibilities

**Knowledge/Skill/Ability**
- General knowledge of greenhouse operations including propagation and growing techniques
- Working knowledge of parks and horticulture and irrigation operating systems
- Demonstrated ability to work in a physically demanding environment, including the ability to lift up to 25 kg

**Conditions of Employment**
- Valid Ontario Class “G” Driver’s Licence in good standing
- Satisfactory Criminal Record Check*
- Please note that this is a requirement of the position for any new employees to the City of Barrie in accordance with the **Police Record Check Policy**. Existing employees who have met this criteria will be exempt from this requirement.

**Other Important Information**

**Location**: Operations Center, 165 Ferndale Drive North, Barrie, Ontario

**Hours**: The normal hours of work are 40 hours per week in accordance with the Collective Agreement.

**Wage**: This position is within the CUPE Local 2380 Bargaining Unit with the following pay level and 2025 pay range:

- Pay Level: Level 5
- Yearly Salary: $67,371.20 to $80,683.20
- Hourly Pay Rate: $32.39 to $38.79

**What We Offer**: This position includes a comprehensive union benefit plan, including but not limited to extended health and dental coverage, life and accident insurance, paid vacation and sick days, short/long term disability plans, OMERS Primary pension plan, access to the Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP), discounted rates for City Fitness Memberships and Transit Passes, and access to the Perkopolis Perks program, which provides exclusive access to discounts on a wide range of products and services available to all City employees.

**Why Barrie?**

The City of Barrie is a vibrant, progressive, and growing community with deep connections to our heritage, to nature and to the opportunities surrounding us.

Our community values quality of life; the ability to play year-round with 300 hectares of park space, our beautiful waterfront, our lively downtown core and the nearby hills, wetlands, and forests. We also value connections; to our neighbours and the community, to our road and rail network, and to the opportunity Barrie provides to enjoy life.

Everything Barrie has to offer, from the water we drink to the roads we travel on, has one thing in common - municipal workers. Joining a municipality is one of the most rewarding, engaging, and exciting careers you could choose. It is a career you can take pride in knowing that every day you make a positive impact on an entire comm