Parks and Facilities Operator

**Requisition Number**:2024-31

**Posted**:January 8, 2025

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

**Location**:Port Elgin, ON

**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 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**:
- 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.- A passion for investing in our workforce through continuous learning and development.

**About the Role**:
We are seeking an organized and team-oriented individual to join our Community Services department. As the Parks and Facilities Operator (Operator 1), under the direction of the Supervisor, you will primarily be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the Town of Saugeen Shores parks, and facilities (recreation and non-recreation) including maintaining the arenas and the Aquatic and Wellness Centre (AWC), operating the ice re-surfacer, refrigeration plant and pool filtration and mechanical systems. This position must provide professional customer service in public facilities.

**Job Responsibiities**:

- Operation of the ice re-surfacer, cleaning and maintenance of arenas, assigns dressing rooms and ensures the ice rental and facility rental policy is adhered to.
- Operation of the ice re-surfacer, cleaning and maintenance of arenas, assigns dressing rooms and ensures the ice rental and facility rental policy is adhered to.
- Operation of the AWC pool filtration and mechanical equipment, cleaning and maintenance of the AWC.
- Responsible for the care and control of recreational facilities during the shift (i.e. Saugeen Shores Community Complex).
- Set-up and take-down for events (i.e. tables and chairs)
- Day-to-day maintenance of the Town of Saugeen Shores facilities including sweeping, scrubbing, waxing, washing walls, cleaning glass, cleaning toilets and general washroom cleaning, waste management
- Snow removal (shovel, hand operated snow blowers, PU truck mounted plows).
- Summer outdoor work including grass cutting, garbage collection, horticulture, painting, waterfront maintenance, active park maintenance, trail maintenance.
- Provide guidance to seasonal and part-time staff.
- Operate and maintain equipment used by the Community Services Department (see equipment listing below)
- Undertake maintenance of parks and facilities such as minor carpentry, painting, plumbing, electrical and window/door repairs
- Working in public parks and facilities while providing professional customer service and good judgement at all times
- Attend professional development and continuing education courses, as applicable
- Provide customer service to facility users and patrons who are renting or attending facilities (i.e. answer questions)
- Follow health and safety policies and procedures and conduct facility inspections as scheduled

**Education and Training**:

- High School Diploma or GED certificate
- Valid G Class Driver’s License
- First Aid and CPR certification
- Obtain the ORFA Basic Refrigeration Course Certification within 12 months of employment.
- Post-secondary education in parks and recreation, facility operations, parks, horticulture, or a related discipline is preferred.
- ORFA and Parks (OPA) training courses / designation would be an asset. Examples include Fuel Safety Awareness, Confined Space Entry Awareness, Working from Heights, Playground Safety Awareness, Landscape Exterminators License, Horticulture, Trails, etc.

**Experience and Knowledge**:

- A minimum of one year of related work experience.
- Physical ability to perform duties associated with job responsibilities.
- Ability to work variable hours including evenings, weekends and holidays including overtime