Foreman - Living Plant Collections

Job Title

Foreman - Living Plant Collections

Organization

Life for All, Parks and Mount Royal Service

Recipients

City employees and external candidates

Job Type

Regular employment

Application Period

From July 20 to July 31, 2026

Salary

**Salary Scale (2025): $84,778 to $105,969 | FM-05 Class

Job Category: Foreman

Hours: 38 hours/week –

Monday and

Tuesday 6:00-15:00;

Wednesday and

Thursday 6:00-14:00;

Friday 6:00-12:00

Address: 4581 Sherbrooke East Street, Montreal, H1X 2B2

This process aims to fill 1 regular position (81194). It may also be used to fill other positions of the same job or the same family of jobs with a similar profile required, at the Life for All, Parks and Mount Royal Service.

OUR OFFER

Contribute actively to maintaining an exceptional living environment by leading engaged teams and ensuring the smooth operation of activities within Life for All.

Life for All includes the Biodome, Botanical Garden, Planetarium, Biosphere, and Insectarium, forming the largest natural science museum complex in Canada. Since its reopening in 2022, after a significant transformation, the Insectarium offers a unique immersive experience in North America, allowing visitors to discover a wide diversity of living and naturalized insects in a fascinating universe dedicated to biodiversity.

Your Mandate

You manage a team of 5-8 unionized employees consisting of specialized horticulturists, horticulturists, and gardeners whose activities involve maintaining and enriching a diverse living plant collection to ensure the operation and renewal of exhibitions, and you act as support to other managers for the entire blue-collar team (approximately 15 employees). You are responsible for the management of material resources and operations related to the horticultural aspect of the institutions' activities and ensure field monitoring of safety needs for the five museums of Life for All. More specifically, you must:

• Supervise and mentor the horticultural team: work planning, scheduling, employee mentoring, maintaining a healthy work environment, and compliance with SST standards.
• Manage financial and material resources: budget tracking, procurement and inventory management, equipment needs assessment.
• Coordinate horticultural and snow removal operations: tracking of living collections, cultivation conditions, and operations in collaboration with specialists.
• Ensure operational and technical liaison: coordination with technical services, vehicle fleet management, and participation in health and safety files.
• Ensure operational safety needs monitoring for all Life for All museums (security, emergency measures, safety-related activities).
• Collaborate with museum directors and agencies on safety issues and ensure liaison with the external supplier.

PROFILE REQUIRED

• College diploma in horticulture or a relevant field
• 4 years of relevant experience in ornamental horticulture and greenhouse production or plant maintenance
• 2 years of experience in team management or coordination
• Valid driver's license (Class 5)
• Valid construction safety card (ASP) (an asset)

These requirements may be adjusted as needed.

OUR ADVANTAGES

• Challenging opportunities
• A career serving the Montreal population
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Work-life balance
• Career advancement opportunities

Be proud to work for the largest employer in the Montreal metropolitan region and the largest francophone metropolis in North America. The City of Montreal, it's nearly 30,000 talents who contribute every day to the growth of the city and make a difference for the population and the public good.

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DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

The City of Montreal offers a work environment where respect, diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values.

With its employment equity program and employment integration programs, the City takes concrete measures to increase diversity within its workforce.

Inclusive, the City strives to remove barriers in the workplace faced by people with disabilities and implements measures to facilitate accessibility. In this regard, accommodations during the skills assessment process may be offered upon request.

Thank you for contributing to diversifying and enriching the Montreal public service!