Job Summary: Professional responsible for the cultivation, maintenance, and conservation of plants, flowers, and lawns in public spaces, performing various gardening tasks and operating equipment. Key Highlights: 1. Cultivation and maintenance of gardens and public parks 2. Application of phytosanitary treatments and crop protection 3. Operation and maintenance of gardening equipment **Offer Code:**OE202604/0331 **Offer Type:**Common Competitive Procedure **Status:**Active **Organizational Level:**Municipal Councils **Agency/Service:**Vila Real Municipal Council **Employment Relationship:**Indefinite-term Contract for Public Functions (CTFP) **Work Regime:**General Careers **Career:**Operational Assistant **Category:**Operational Assistant **Complexity Level:**1 **Remuneration:**934.99€ \- Position 1, Level 5 **Monthly Supplement:**0.00 EUR **Job Description:**Gardener The activities will be carried out within the competencies defined for the Operational Assistant career under the general regime and in accordance with the Annex referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 88\.º of Law No. 35/2014, of 20 June. In addition to this functional content, the following tasks are expected: Cultivates flowers, trees, or other plants and sows lawns in public parks or gardens, being responsible for all operations inherent to the normal development of crops and their maintenance and conservation, such as prior soil preparation, cleaning, watering, application of appropriate phytosanitary treatments, and protection against adverse weather conditions; performs cleaning and conservation of streets and flowerbeds; for prior soil preparation, digs or opens holes, replaces poor soil with arable soil, and applies manure, fertilizers, and/or corrective agents when necessary; specifically for lawns, spreads and buries seeds, levels the ground, and subsequently compacts and trims the grass; to ensure subsequent land treatment aimed at guaranteeing normal plant growth, the gardener weeds, thins, fertilizes, waters (automatically or manually), and, when necessary, prunes and applies herbicides or pesticides; where plant nurseries exist, carries out seed, bulb, rootstock, shrub, tree, and flower cultivation outdoors or in greenhouses for propagation, preparing nurseries, staking them, fertilizing them, and appropriately arranging them; likewise performs seeding, planting, transplanting, grafting, watering, protection against inclement weather, phytosanitary treatments, and pruning, and may eventually conduct trials to develop new plant varieties; operates various tools required for gardening tasks, which may be manual (pruning shears, loppers, saws, shovels, pickaxes, hoes, and others) or mechanical (lawn mowers and trimmers, irrigation motors, sprinklers, chainsaws, mechanical scythes, aerators, and others); is responsible for cleaning, tuning, and lubricating mechanical equipment; performs minor repairs and arranges for major repairs when equipment malfunctions occur. **Work Location** **Number of Positions** **Address** **Locality** **Postal Code** **District** **Municipality** Vila Real Municipal Council 2 Av. Carvalho Araújo Vila Real 5000657 VILA REAL Vila Real Vila Real **Total Number of Positions:**2 **Quota for Persons with Disabilities:**0