Technical Agent In Horticulture And Arboriculture

Pointe-Claire is a city with a population of 34,000 located along Lac Saint-Louis and forming part of Greater Montreal. Recognized for its lifestyle, Pointe-Claire also has a distinctively rich architectural and historical heritage and provides services of outstanding quality to its population. Dedicated to the life of its citizens, the City's mission is to ensure that the quality of its social, cultural and economic environment is maintained for citizens today as well as future generations.
**Description**:
Reporting to the Senior Manager - Contracts and Inspection, the jobholder will be required to plan, develop, research, analyze, coordinate, write, implement, oversee and manage landscaping, maintenance and planting projects carried out throughout the City’s parks, green spaces, waterfront areas and public spaces, in particular for natural woodland development projects and invasive alien plant management.
**Departmental mission**:
The mission of the Public Works Department is to ensure the longevity and proper functioning of all public facilities, equipment, and buildings, in order to support sustainable development and improve citizens’ quality of life.
**General responsibilities and goals**:
- Help plan horticultural and tree maintenance work and assess needs for materials and products.
- Develop projects for tree planting, transplanting, pruning maintenance and felling.
- Provide on-site assessment of needs in terms of materials and horticulture or arboriculture requirements, in order to produce estimates of work costs;
draft technical specifications to this end.
- Help document cases involving claims for damage to third parties by trees;
assess replacement and/or felling costs and damage caused to trees.
- Verify all horticultural work carried out in parks, streets and other green spaces.
- Inspect work sites in parks and streets to make sure that standards and specifications are followed.
- Assist his or her superiors, when joint studies are carried out with other departments, with construction and landscaping projects involving streets or parks;
for this purpose, studyand comment on technical documents from various sources;
collect preliminary data as needed.
- Guide and direct a few employees assigned to related tasks and check the quality of their work.
- Write reports and correspondence relevant to his or her tasks.
- Perform any other related task.
**Job requirements**:
- College diploma in an appropriate sector and profile.
- Two years’ experience in a job ensuring familiarity with the sector.
- Good knowledge of botany, plants, diseases, insect pests and pesticide regulations.
- Knowledge of spoken and written French and English.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office software.
- Valid Class 5 driving license.
**Schedule**:
35 hours per week,
For the period between the first (1st) Monday of May and Thanksgiving:
Monday to Thursday inclusively, 8:
00 a.M. to 4:
30 p.M., minus forty-five (45) minutes for lunch;
Friday, 8:
00 a.M. to noon.
For the period between Thanksgiving and the first (1st) Monday of May:
Monday to Friday inclusively, 8:
30 a.M. to 4:
30 p.M., minus one (1) hour for lunch.
**Footnote**: