Maintenance & Grounds Worker - Auxiliary; On Call

Maintenance & Grounds Worker - On Call Auxiliary Internal/External Posting Posting Date:
September 9, 2026 Closing Date:
September 24, 2026 Posting # 2026074 Hours

Various shifts based on need.

Hourly rate $28.97

This is a bargaining unit position withing in the Professional Employees Association.

All candidates must be legally able to work in Canada.

St. Margaret’s School (SMS) is Western Canada’s only girl-centered, independent day and boarding school located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on the unceded traditional territories of the Esquimalt Nations, Songhees Nations, and W̱SÁNEĆ Nations. Founded in 1908, SMS is an international centre for girl-centered learning and leadership development, providing empowering education for girls from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 (boarding grades 7–12).

St. Margaret’s School is an International Baccalaureate (IB) School offering the Diploma Programme, and we are a candidate school for the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP).

Under direction of the Manager, Facilities, the temporary Maintenance & Grounds Worker performs a variety of maintenance functions for the School’s buildings and grounds. School’s buildings and grounds must always be maintained in a condition of operating excellence. This job assumes the primary responsibility for the safety and cleanliness of all School buildings and grounds. This is also a customer service position, and the Maintenance & Grounds Worker must be willing to address concerns from staff, students, and a variety of visitors to our campus.

• Integrity & Trust
• Service Orientation
• Communication & Collaboration
• Adaptability
• Innovation
• Resilience
• Interpersonal Savvy

Responsibilities will include the following:

• Maintains the School’s infrastructure by:
• Attending to day-to-day facility needs.
• Ensuring cleanliness and good repair of interior and exterior spaces, e.g. common areas, classrooms, playground equipment, entrance ways, building roofs, etc.
• Undertaking minor project work and repairs that involve plumbing, drywalling, painting, carpentry, and minor electrical work.
• Performs preventative maintenance on building equipment and machinery including HVAC systems.
• Responding to teacher requests to fabricate structure for school projects.
• Moving, setting up, dismantling, and storing equipment for school functions and events.
• Minor repairs to furniture and appliances.
• Replaces light bulbs, ballasts, and cleans light fixtures.
• Opens/closes buildings and checks for cleanliness, good repair, and safety.
• Performs general building and grounds maintenance and project work in other school areas as may be assigned.
• Maintains school pathways and roads, cleaning drains and sweeping debris.
• Regularly disinfects all exterior handrails and benches, and other areas as needed.
• Pressure washing of buildings and pathways.
• Maintains tools and equipment related to maintenance such as lubricating, sharpening, replacing broken handles and making simple adjustments and repairs, as needed.

• Installs, alters, and maintains gardens and landscaping.
• Performs routine gardening maintenance including turning of beds, weeding, mulching, edging, and planting.
• Maintains lawns including grass cutting with walk behind and riding mowers, trimming grass, edging, and raking.
• Prunes annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees using the appropriate techniques according to the plant.
• General landscape maintenance, including litter pick-up and clearing wasp nests.
• Ensures efficient operation of irrigation systems including programming of irrigation timers for water-efficient irrigation, installation, maintenance, and repair irrigation systems.
• Regularly examines campus, paths, roadways, playgrounds structures and other buildings and…