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Earn Up to €95,000 as a Dublin City Parks Superintendent
- 29 September 2011
The City Parks Superintendent will lead a team of professional staff along with an outdoor workforce currently totalling 260, with responsibility for an annual budget (in 2011) of €19 million including contract services of €2 million per annum.
The City Parks Superintendent will be responsible for one of the bigger works Department within Dublin City Council and will be directly responsible for the management of 1,400 hectares of parks and open spaces, natural heritage/designated areas including beaches and also the management of the city's 60,000 roadside and street trees.
In addition to the management of operational matters relating to Parks and Landscape Services in the city, the City Parks Superintendent will play a strategic role in advising and providing services to the City Council's Planning Department (in particular on the City Development Plan and on major urban planning issues), to the Housing and Residential Services Department in the area of Landscape Architecture, and with Engineering colleagues in matters relating to Nature Conservation and Biodiversity in the context of major infrastructural engineering projects (for example, Dublin Port Tunnel & Wastewater Treatment Works Ringsend). The unique role of City Parks Superintendent can be viewed in terms of two distinct areas of responsibilities i.e. Recreation/Amenity and Nature Conservation.
The City Parks Superintendent will play a critical role in the ongoing management of the large outdoor workforce and will take a hands-on approach to Health and Safety, the Performance Management Development System (PMDS) and Workplace Partnership. He/she will have direct statutory responsibility for the Health and Safety function within the Parks and Landscape Services Division. He/she will be a member of the Corporate Partnership Health and Safety Group, the Senior Managers' Health and Safety Group in addition to the Corporate Risk Management Group.
The City Parks Superintendent will also drive the changes necessary under the Public Service (Croke Park) Agreement to achieve targeted levels of cost savings and efficiencies, while maintaining the unique level of motivation and vocational commitment that is traditional in the Parks Service.
