Water/Wastewater Enforcement Officer

Job Title: Water/Wastewater Enforcement Officer

Job Type: Permanent Full Time

Job Category: By-law Enforcement

Number Of Positions: 1

Date Posted: October 13, 2026

Closing Date: November 3, 2026

Hours of work: Variable schedule, days, evenings and weekend shifts, including statutory holidays

Schedule: 35 hours per week

Union: CUPE 905 FT Clerical and Technical

Vacancy Type: Existing

Physical Location: Vaughan City Hall

Working Conditions: Both Inside and Outside

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Position Overview

The Water/Wastewater Enforcement Officer is responsible for supporting the implementation of strategies and programs to assist and enforce industry compliance with the City of Vaughan, Water Use, Sewer Use, and Back Flow Prevention By-Laws and other applicable legislation, and the discharge dewatering program, including monitoring and sampling non-residential and residential wastewater discharges, performing site inspections and investigations, and educating the public and premise owners on the relevant regulations/compliance requirements; taking enforcement actions.

Responsibilities

Technical Duties

• Identifies and contributes to strategy development and programs for the implementation.
• Enforcement of the by-laws, including discharge dewatering program and programs may include but not limited to, compliance programs and pollution prevention plans as well as educational awareness programs.
• Investigates complaints and concerns including related to water and sewers and illegal water connections and water meter by-passes as well as dewatering.
• Reviews, establishes and monitors sewer compliance program, pollution prevention plan, surcharge agreements and billings with suitable industries.
• Develops and maintains sampling and inspection program by updating industrial, commercial and institutional (ICI) premise lists for the monitoring program as well as enforcement and discharge activities.
• Monitors discharge activities and assists with conducting legal sampling of discharges from sites by collecting samples according to recognized sampling and monitoring practices.
• Conducts investigation of suspected and confirmed bylaw and dewatering discharge non-compliances to identify issues and recommend corrective measures.
• Conducts wastewater inspections with primary focus on root cause of the discharge of the containment to the sewer system.
• Conducts water inspections with a focus on the infrastructure components.
• Reviews, contributes to establishing and monitoring sewer compliance program, pollution prevention plan, surcharge agreements and billings with suitable industries.
• Collects documents and evidence; prepares documents for legal briefs pertaining to violations, attends court trials, and provides testimony on cases involving By-laws and discharge dewatering infractions, as required.
• Responsible for laying charges in accordance with the Provincial Offences Act (POA), Administrative Penalty Notices, and any other applicable legislation; issues/serves violation offence notices, Orders, subpoenas, and other legal notices to premise owners who are in violation of the Water Use, Sewer Use and Back Flow Prevention By-Laws or other applicable legislation.
• Initiates industry compliance programs and educates premise owners, members of the public and industry stakeholders of the requirements under the by-laws and discharge dewatering program.

Administrative and Operational Support

• Responsible for maintaining detailed notes in issued notebooks, updating case files, and updating key stakeholders.
• Creates, monitors, tracks and updates complaints via departmental Call Management/Data Systems. Updates enforcement data bases.
• Reviews, maintains and secures confide