Grounds Lead Hand

Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts; Banff; On-site; CAD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is seeking a Grounds Lead Hand to provide daily direction to the Grounds staff and Equipment Operators and to perform varied manual and detailed equipment operation in landscape maintenance, snow removal, and grounds clean up.

Reporting to the Manager, Facilities Maintenance, you will determine projects, guide staff, ensure timely completion of assignments, and support campus upkeep with a focus on safety and efficiency across seasonal tasks.

Responsibilities

• Meet with the Manager, Facilities Maintenance to determine projects and priorities.
• Provide daily direction to the Grounds staff and Equipment Operators on assignments, ensuring that work is completed in a timely and complete manner, and providing guidance and mentoring to staff when required.
• Perform moderately complex tasks, and varied manual and detailed equipment operation in landscape maintenance, snow removal, clean up and landscape construction.
• Perform winter-related duties, ensuring safe conditions on and around the campus, as well as making decisions regarding these duties in the absence of the Manager, Facilities Maintenance.
• Operate light to heavy equipment including tractors, skid-steers, front end loaders and specialized equipment for various tasks such as spraying, snow removal, sanding and sweeping sidewalks and parking lots, lawn mowing, bed digging, planting and/or transplanting of trees and shrubs.
• Daily cleaning of the campus, chainsaw operation, signage installation, events set up and take down, as well as lawn, bed and tree maintenance.
• Perform landscaping work including leveling and preparing grounds for seeding, sodding and planting, moving soil and gravel, constructing fences, pouring concrete and building retaining walls.
• Assist other trades within Physical Facilities, other departments throughout the campus as well as clientele needs regarding general labour requirements.
• Perform minor repairs and service (e.g. oil changes and tune ups) on mobile equipment, machinery and on the irrigation system.
• Train staff in the safe use of equipment such as loaders, bobcats and various related tools and equipment.

Job description

This is a term position to October 2027.

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to inspire everyone who attends our campus – artists, leaders, and thinkers – to unleash their creative potential.

We acknowledge, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minhrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.

The Opportunity

The Grounds Lead Hand provides daily direction to the Grounds staff and Equipment Operators and performs varied manual and detailed equipment operation in landscape maintenance and construction, snow removal, and grounds clean up.

Roles and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Manager, Facilities Maintenance, below are some key accountabilities:

• Meet with the Manager, Facilities Maintenance to determine projects and priorities.
• Provide daily direction to the Grounds staff and Equipment Operators on assignments, ensuring that work is completed in a timely and complete matter, and providing guidance and mentoring to staff when required.
• Perform moderately complex tasks, and varied manual and detailed equipment operation in landscape maintenance, snow removal, clean up and landscape construction.
• Perform winter-related duties, ensuring safe conditions on and around the campus, as well as making decisions regarding these duties in the absence of the Manager, Facilities Maintenance.
• Operate light to heavy equipment including tractors, skid-steers, front end loaders and specialized equipment for various reasons such as spraying, snow removal, sanding and sweeping sidewalks and parking lots, lawn mowing, bed digging, planting and/or transplanting of trees and shrubs or the removal of.
• Daily cleaning of the campus, chainsaw operation, signage installation, events set up and take down, as well as lawn, bed and tree maintenance.
• Perform landscaping work including leveling and preparing grounds for seeding, sodding and planting, moving soil and gravel, constructing fences, pouring concrete and building retaining walls.
• Assist other trades within Physical Facilities, other departments throughout the campus as well as clientele needs regarding general labour requirements.
• Perform minor repairs and service (e.g. oil changes and tune ups) on mobile equipment, machinery and on the irrigation system.
• Train staff in the safe use of equipment such as loaders, bobcats and various related tools and equipment.