Staff - Union Job Category CUPE 116 Job Profile CUPE 116 Hourly - Labourer 2 Job Title Labourer 2 - Sessional Department Soft Landscape | Municipal Services | Facilities Compensation Range $25.77 - $28.29 CAD Hourly Posting End Date December 7, 2025 Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date. Job End Date August 15, 2026 These are 8-months sessional positions. 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. This 8 month position will spend half their time with the Street Operations crew and the other half with the Landscape Crew. The Street Operations crew is engaged in the ongoing hard landscape maintenance (e.g. roads, sidewalks, storm drains, water features, street furnishing). The Sessional Labourer performs physical work, operates specialized equipment, performs maintenance work in the Street Operations crew; working within relevant safety regulations and in the safest, simplest, sustainable and most efficient manner. The Landscape crew is engaged in the care, ongoing maintenance and periodic renewal of gardens, lawns, shrub beds, and trees of 172 hectares of core campus grounds. The Sessional Labourer performs physical work, operates specialized equipment, and performs maintenance work in the landscape crew; working within relevant safety regulations and in the safest, simplest, sustainable and most efficient manner. ORGANIZATIONAL STATUS Sessional Labourer within the Municipal Services Unit of Facilities. Reports to the Head Labourer or Head Landscape Technologist in all service areas in the unit. WORK PERFORMED Assists with the maintenance of both soft and hard landscapes and other general labour duties using specialized equipment and physical effort including lawn and garden bed maintenance and development. Performs tasks of general nature involving physical effort. Engaged in the construction and maintenance of structures, pipelines and drainage systems. General duties related to landscaping, campus cleanup, road repair and other tasks not requiring specialized skills. Operates light, medium and heavy vehicles and special construction and maintenance equipment (including, but not limited to, power washers, line trimmers, lawn mowers, backpack blowers, jack hammers, tampers, concrete vibrators, concrete/asphalt coring and cutting equipment, sandblasting equipment, bobcats, and any other special equipment. May monitor the work of a group of Labourers in an assigned area as designated by the Head Labourer, Sub-Head Labourer, Head Landscape Technologist, or Sub-Head Landscape Technologist; participates in the work and ensures those under his/her jurisdiction work in a correct and safe manner. Takes all required training to perform the job safely and is to be familiar with safety. Requests and receives tools, equipment and material for the work assigned Carries out any other related duties as required in keeping with the qualifications and requirements of positions in this classification. CONSEQUENCE OF ERROR Determines the most efficient and effective way to operate equipment to perform work; incorrect decisions result in minor delays. SUPERVISION RECEIVED The Sessional Labourer reports to the Manager, Municipal Services and receives daily work assignments and directions from Head Labourer, Sub-Head Labourer, Head Landscape Technologist, or Sub-Head Landscape Technologist. The Sessional Labourer works from oral and written instructions and according to established departmental policies and procedures. SUPERVISION GIVEN Monitors the work of a group of labourers in an assigned area as required. QUALIFICATIONS - Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own - Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion High School graduation and Valid B.C. Driver's License. Class 5 B.C. Driver's License preferred. the equivalent combination of education and experience. Good physical fitness; knowledge of construction and maintenance equipment and usage. This position will be required to work 37.5 hours per week. The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities globally. A large part of what makes us unique is the community of engaged students, faculty, and staff who are collectively committed to shaping a better world. Recognized as a leading employer in British Columbia and Canada, UBC supports inspired students, faculty and staff on their journey of discovery, and challenges them to realize their greatest potential. New ideas, changing infrastructure, innovative technology, and fresh approaches are opening up possibilities for the future of research, teaching, and work. Are you ready to embrace the future together? Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, and/or Indigenous person. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. If you have any accommodation or accessibility needs during the job application process, please contact the Centre for Workplace Accessibility at workplace.accessibility@ubc.ca.
