Grounds Worker

**Grounds Worker**:
**Job ID**:

- 230788

**Posting status**:

- Open

**Organization**:

- Ministry of the Solicitor General

**Division**:

- Central North Correctional Centre

**City**:

- Penetanguishene

**Position(s) language**:

- English

**Job term**:

- 1 Permanent

**Job code**:

- 93009 - Grounds/Maintenance Worker (COR)

**Salary**:

- $29.15 - $32.92 Per hour*
*Indicates the salary listed as per the OPSEU Collective Agreement.

**Showcase your general grounds keeping, snow removal, and general maintenance skills**

Join our team in beautiful Penetanguishene - a town with a picturesque and protected harbour, and a rich heritage and culture. We look forward to welcoming one** dedicated grounds worker** who will perform general groundskeeping and minor maintenance. They will also escort external tradespeople throughout our facilities while they perform skilled trades work. Given this position works with inmate helpers, a** shift premium** will be added to every pay.

**About the job**: Working on small maintenance team, you will enjoy a variety of tasks and a steady work schedule (Mondays-Fridays). In this role you can expect to:

- Plan, implement and maintain the grounds keeping and gardening services
- Operate and maintain equipment (eg. garden tractors, rotor tillers, lawn mowers and weed eaters)
- Perform semi-skilled maintenance work such as fixing locks, minor plumbing, carpentry, painting and welding tasks, and help skilled tradespeople
- Maintain the facility's walkways and operate snow removal equipment
- Oversee the removal of garbage and recycling
- Supervise and instruct selected inmate helpers

**What you bring to the team**:
**Mandatory Requirement**:

- Valid driver's license to operate snow plow trucks
- Current First Aid and Heartsaver or the ability to obtain
- Pesticide licence or the ability to obtain

**Technical Knowledge and Skills**:

- You have an understanding of the planning required to perform grounds keeping and gardening services
- You can operate and maintain grounds keeping tools and equipment (eg, garden tractor, lawn mower, weed eater)
- You have knowledge of semi-skilled trades such as plumbing, carpentry, welding, masonry and painting
- You understand blueprints and drawings
- You know about of environmental waste management regulations and institutional safety practices

**Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills**: You are able to:

- Determine when planting, fertilizing and pruning should occur
- Identify and mix pesticides needed for spraying, when establishing appropriateness of ground and soil conditions for planting, e.g. shrubs, flowers
- Perform scheduled maintenance or repair services where problems are identifiable, and alert supervisor/skilled tradespersons of major problems requiring assessment

**Communication Skills**: You have the ability to:

- Give information to offender helpers in grounds keeping and general maintenance work, and to liaise with correctional staff
- Give input to inmate performance reports so that corrective action can be prompt
- Interact with and counsel offender helpers and when responding to requests for maintenance work from ministry staff
- Write reports (behaviour) and to maintain logs, prepare requests for materials.

**Health and Safety Knowledge**: You comprehend and are able to demonstrate:

- The safe operation of a variety of hand and power tools to perform maintenance duties, e.g. installing vents.
- Institutional security practices/procedures to ensure compliance with standards
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), Occupational Health and Safety Act, and institutional security practices/procedures to ensure compliance with standards, proper equipment operation/utilization and to maintain the safety and security of the work area and offender helpers.
- Environmental waste management regulations for garbage and hazardous waste; oil heating equipment, boilers, sewage and water plant operations
- Correct methods of repair and selecting tools to be used when performing semi-skilled duties, e.g. shaping metal parts, repairing small leaks in water lines.

**How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility**: We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's _Human Rights Code_ and the _Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005._ We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.

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