Job Description
Parks and Open Space Attendant
Permanent Full Time
Employee Group: CUPE 1189-01
Wage Rate: $26.52/hr
Job Posting #: 2025-10
Closing Date: March 6, 2025
The City of Owen Sound is seeking motivated individuals to fill the Parks and Open Space attendant position. The position performs general maintenance of City parks and cemeteries, including grass cutting, pruning of small trees or shrubs, grading and levelling of soil and seeding or sod. They perform general maintenance, repairs and inspections of various playgrounds and equipment throughout the City and provide all functions related to internments, including grave digging and monument placement.
The successful candidate will have a Grade 12 Secondary School diploma or equivalent.
Experience Required:
• Minimum 3 years related experience in a parks and/or cemetery environment
• Knowledge of the Funeral Burial & Cremation Services Act
• Experience with cemetery procedures and processes
• Experience with grass cutting, trimming and sod maintenance through the safe operation of line trimmers, various lawnmowers and tractors and other related tools and equipment.
• Familiar with power equipment, including tractors, trucks, mowers (including rough-cut rotary cutters), chainsaws, wood splitters etc.
Additional Skills / Competencies Required:
• Proficient in the operation of a backhoe.
• Valid Ontario Licence with “D” and “Z” endorsement with clean drivers abstract.
• Ministry of Environment Pesticides Exterminator’s License for Landscape and Industrial Vegetation is an asset
• Basic skills in carpentry, plumbing and masonry with the ability to perform minor construction and/or repairs
• Knowledge of methods, materials, vehicles and equipment used in snow removal and parks maintenance
• Strong knowledge and awareness of all applicable legislation and industry standards, including but not limited to the Occupational Health & Safety Act (and associated regulations), the Highway Traffic Act and Ontario Traffic Manual Book 7.
• Basic computer skills.
To explore this opportunity further, we invite applicants to forward their resume and cover letter to:
Human Resources
City of Owen Sound
E-mail: hrjobposting@owensound.ca
The City of Owen Sound is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, valuing and respecting diversity. We are committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes. We will accommodate the needs of qualified applicants under the Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians Disabilities Act in all aspects of the hiring process upon request. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those considered for an interview will be contacted. In accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Act. It will only be used for candidate selection.
