SCADA Support Specialist

The Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) believes in Our Communities, Our Environment and Our People. As a trusted partner to municipalities, First Nations communities, businesses, governments and institutions across Ontario, we provide our clients with total solutions in water and wastewater. We are dedicated to working closely with our clients to help them build healthy sustainable communities and organizations and provide safe and reliable drinking water to thousands of Ontarians each day.

Join our team as a SCADA Support Specialist with OCWA

In this role, you will provide advice, technical and engineering services, expertise and analysis for optimizing water and wastewater process control and automation systems (e.g. hardware, software, instrumentation) in support of the Ontario Clean Water Agency's (OWCA) operational and compliance activities.

OPS Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism:We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.

We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black, and racialized individuals, as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

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We offer employment accommodation across the recruitment process and all aspects of employment consistent with the requirements of Ontario's Human Rights Code. Refer to the "How to apply" section if you require a disability-related accommodation.

What can I expect to do in this role?

• Provide advice and technical expertise to clients on the services required for water and wastewater process control and automation systems including SCADA.
  
• Evaluate, define, recommend and provide detail system and programming requirements; creates custom programs or modifies existing/new software in response to plant requests and/or changing requirements.
  
• Provide guidelines and development of SCADA architecture, templates and standards related to instrumentation, process control and automation systems at Water Treatment and Sewage Treatment plants to keep plant processes in compliance with provincial regulations.
  
• Installs and commissions new electrical/electronic equipment, monitoring and control systems by designing and laying out various electrical /electronic control systems, control loops, panels.
  
• Provides expertise for the development of data reporting, replication, integrity and security and assesses the impact of data organization on systems performance. Identifies components subject to data corruption and initiates corrective actions to improve integrity of process data.
  
• Investigates and analyzes water and wastewater plants to develop situation-specific recommendations that provides optimization and cost reduction opportunities in electrical power usage, process equipment or specialized control algorithms; identifies issues and elements requiring further study.
  
• Provides advice and technical expertise to clients on the services required for water and wastewater process control and automation systems in order to maintain plant compliance.
  
• Investigates new technology and determines suitable technology for use with the Agency.

How do I qualify?Mandatory

• Valid Class G driver's license.
  
• Certification as a licensed Construction or Industrial Maintenance Electrician or equivalent.

Knowledge:

• Theoretical and practical knowledge of water and wastewater treatment operation processes, design, instrumentation, process control and automation systems to develop, implement and commission complex SCADA systems.
  
• Knowledge of project management and methodology to manage and control concurrent projects for delivery of services to clients relating to data acquisition, process control and automation.
  
• Knowledge of OCWA's large-scale network and telecommunications environment, standards and operating systems, computer language, ladder logic, relational and document based database management systems; in-depth theoretical and practical.
  
• Knowledge of water and wastewater treatment operation processes, design, instrumentation, process control and automation systems.
  
• Ability to develop and/or work with electrical blueprints utilizing computer automated drawing technologies and applying the Ontario Electrical code to conduct legal and safe commissioning of new electrical/electronic equipment, monitoring and control systems, and to provide power to all applications in the field.
  
• Ability to monitor and review network, hardware, software and instrumentation performance and make recommendations on ways to improve performance and operating capacities, diagnose and develop solutions to operating problems, evaluate feasibility of requests for additional/new process monitoring and control systems and components, facilitate troubleshooting.
  
• Knowledge of system development practices to assist in the development/preparation of technical specifications for installation and testing of systems.
  
• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislative requirements and safe workplace practices to implement project plans in the field.
  
• SCADA development software, process control, automation and communication hardware, remote access software, multi-layered emulation and virtualization tools to develop enterprise applications, design innovation system integration solutions, troubleshoot and maintain process control problems to the component level.

Skills:

• Strong understanding of and commitment to providing competitive, commercialized services in a client-driven business.
  
• Presentation and persuasion skills to demonstrate the merits of the Agency's products to potential or existing client and to present recommendations/proposals for optimization and cost reduction opportunities on plant specific basis.
  
• Analytical and evaluative problem solving skills necessary to assess client, process and control requirements.
  
• Excellent communication skills and advanced IT infrastructure, networking and virtualization knowledge is required to perform daily support tasks.
  
• Job requires the ability to assess and evaluate new methods, technologies and techniques for potential Agency use and the impact of changes within system (both business and operational) and make recommendations on same.

What's in it for you?

• Flexible learning and development opportunities.
  
• Opportunities for career advancement and specialization with the largest provider of water and wastewater services in Ontario.
  
• Work with the partner of choice for more communities than any other water and wastewater service organization in Ontario for over 30 years.
  
• Work with an organization committed to innovation and advanced technology.
  
• A defined benefit pension plan; Comprehensive Health Plan; Life and Disability Insurance.
  Maternity and parental leave top-up benefits including for adoptive parents.

Ontario Clean Water Agency is an inclusive employer.We will accommodate your needs under the Ontario Human Rights Code

The Ontario Clean Water Agency is an agency of the Province of Ontario, reporting to the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. In 2023, OCWA staff treated water and wastewater, and provided other technical services for 318 clients in the province including 169 municipalities, 16 First Nations, 108 commercial and industrial clients and 25 government and institutional clients. Municipal clients range in size from populations as large as 1.5 million in the Region of Peel to as small as 2,400 in Moose Factory. This broad scope of experience ensures OCWA has the expertise to solve any issues that may arise, in any size or type of treatment process in the province. Our Agency has grown its municipal client base every year over the past 30 years is proof of this value. We continue to focus on our people and strategies to attract and retain competent staff.

Note: Thank you for your interest, we will contact you only if we choose you for further screening or an interview.

Additional Information:

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Remember: The deadline to apply is Thursday, December 12, 2024 11:59 pm EST. Late applications will not be accepted.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further screening or an interview will be contacted.

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