Trades - Landscape Technologist Apprentice

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UBC Vancouver Campus - Vancouver, BC, Canada time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 9 Days Agojob requisition :
JR23480

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** Job Category
** CUPE 116## Job Profile

CUPE 116 Salaried - Apprentice Trades 2### ##
** Job Title
** Trades 2 - Landscape Technologist Apprentice### ##
** Department
* * Soft Landscape | Municipal Services | Facilities### ##
** Compensation Range
** See details below.### ##
** Posting End Date
** February 16, 2026
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** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
** Job End Date
** Ongoing
* * There are two vacancies available.
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Salary will be determined on a pro-rated and incremental scale, which will increase over a 4-year period to align with the Apprentice’s progression in the Landscape Horticulturist Technologist program.  By completion of program requirements, the incumbent will be at the wage of CUPE 116 Schedule C, PG 14 (Landscape Technologist
2):  6,774  - 7,008 - 7,226 CAD Monthly.  At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
** Job Summary
** UBC Facilities provides comprehensive facilities maintenance, operations and renovation services for lands and buildings owned by the University of British Columbia. The Municipal Services group is responsible for providing waste management services, soft and hard landscape services, as well as moving and general labour services for all of the Vancouver campus. Under the supervision of a Landscape Technologist the Landscape Technologist Apprentice is responsible for the maintenance of all hard/soft outdoor surfaces for the University of British Columbia Point Grey Campus.  

The Landscape Technologist Apprentice performs horticultural tasks as well as skilled soft/hard landscape practices such as design, construction, pruning, nursery work, propagation, pesticide and chemical application, asphalt and concrete repair. The apprenticeship will take approximately 4 years to complete and will require a combination of at-home learning, distance education, online, in-school and at-work learning.

** Organizational Status
** The Landscape Technologist Apprentice reports to the Manager, Municipal Services and receives daily work assignments and directions from the Sub-head Landscape Technologist or Head Lanadscape Technologist.  The successful applicant will work in a team comprised of Landscape Technologists, Apprentices and Labourers.

** Work Performed**  - Performs routine maintenance in all types of horticultural situations or in a specific field of expertise, such as, irrigation, playing field maintenance, landscape construction, tree maintenance.

- Performs most or all specialized grounds keeping tasks, such as, design, soft/hard landscape construction, on a small or large scale, pruning of trees and shrubs, propagation of plant material, pesticide and chemical applications, turf installations, asphalt and concrete paver installation and maintenance and the maintenance of accession records and inventories.

- Assigns work to labourers, and supervises the quality of their work.

- Participates in the training of labourers.

- Evaluates planting beds, trees, lawns, specialty plantings and soil conditions to determine plant health, soil fertility and the general condition of the campus landscape; reports findings to supervisory staff and makes a joint determination of the correct course of action for proper care; initiates input into the plant accession system to endure the correct identification and labeling of plants in the gardens' plant collections.

- May be responsible for special collections areas, such as, the Rose Garden or specialized landscapes such as the C.K. Choi Building, the Asian Centre, or the athletic fields.

- Operates standard power equipment,…