Water Supply Specialist

2 weeks ago

Edmonton, Canada Government of Alberta Full time

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 56154
Ministry: Environment and Protected Areas
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Temporary
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: May 2, 2024
Classification: Technologies 5 (126TNA)

**Salary**: $2,513.34 to $3,310.25 bi-weekly ($65,598 - $86,397/year)

We support Albertans in being proud stewards of air, land, water, and biodiversity by leading the work required for the desired environmental outcomes and sustainable development of natural resources.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Reporting to the Water Supply Data Supervisor, the Water Supply Specialist is a key member of a critical services team responsible for stewardship of water quantity data, as well as delivering operational support and maintenance services for the real-time data collection systems that gather, manage, maintain data quality and distribute hydrometric data, reservoir data, water quality data, and groundwater well data necessary for informing flood forecasting, river ice monitoring, water supply forecasting, irrigation and reservoir operations in Alberta. These near real-time data systems also include historical hydrometric and meteorological data from various sources required for research, planning, monitoring, reporting, and related water resource management activities.
- Because these real-time data acquisition components and operating systems help raise public awareness and inform multi-stakeholder responses to environmental emergencies, the Water Supply Specialist position is formally recognized as part of the ministry's critical services team who offer 24/7 on-call services during river flooding, ice break-up, heavy rainfall events and natural disasters.
- The incumbent within this position collaborates with ministry staff, partners and stakeholders to develop, maintain or enhance water supply data systems in order to improve performance, reliability, accessibility and overall stewardship of the data. The incumbent also provides training and support to staff, stakeholders and citizens who rely on the data.
- The incumbent will help ensure high quality near real-time and historical data is available to inform actions and decisions that promote better water resource management and environmental health, while protecting public property, health and safety.
- **In this position, you will**:

- Maintain data assets and operate data systems and tools necessary for the stewardship of real-time and historical water data required to inform primary users, such as flood forecasters, dam operators, river engineers, hydrologists, water managers, stakeholders and Albertans.
- Perform quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) reviews of water supply data.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and contracted resources in planning, building new data systems and new tools to gather, validate, store and distribute water supply data, such as hydrometric, snow, water quality and groundwater data sets.
- Provide training and support to stakeholders, staff, consultants and Albertans to encourage access to and responsible use of data and data systems.
- Perform administrative and other duties required of the unit within the Environmental Knowledge and Prediction Branch.

**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**Creative Problem Solving**:The incumbent within this position stewards data and resolves issues related to data acquisition, validation, loading, storage, distribution and disposition based on a network of systems and processes that are continually evolving.

**Systems Thinking**:This position requires the integration of multiple operating systems and information portals. Understanding how these systems interact and how they provide value to the ministry is essential.

**Agility**: Changes to business, technology and environments are constant. It is important the incumbent within this position be able to anticipate, assess and adapt to changing priorities, and make effective data-related decisions.

**Develop Networks**:This position requires a lot of interaction with internal and external stakeholders who are submitting or consuming data. Developing networks to work collaboratively, anticipate concerns and solve data problems is vital in meeting the needs of the organization.

**Qualifications**:
**Required**:

- Two-year technical diploma with relevance to Civil Engineering, Water Resources Technology, Environmental Science or Hydrology.
- Minimum four years related experience.

**Equivalences will be considered**:Additional related education considered in lieu of experience on a one-for-one basis.- For example: Related University d

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