Water and Wastewater Technician

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. **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. Visit the **OPS Anti-Racism Policy** and the **OPS Diversity and Inclusion Blueprint** pages to learn more about the OPS commitment to advance racial equity, accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the public service. 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?**: **Join our team as a water/wastewater professional with OCWA** In this role, you will support the optimal operation of complex and advanced Class 4 Wastewater Treatment facilities and Class 2 Wastewater Collection facilities. Working on a rotating schedule, this position ensures the safe and efficient operation of all systems required to operate wastewater facilities, pumping stations and collections systems in order to protect the health of residents and for protection of the environment. Equipped with personal protective equipment you will need to be able to work in all weather conditions, in confined spaces, dirty and/or noisy environments and have physical dexterity. In water / wastewater facilities, physical dexterity includes but is not limited to: walking, standing, sitting, lifting floor to waist, lifting waist to shoulder, kneeling, crouching, bending, twisting, stair climbing, ladder climbing, pushing, pulling, carrying, handling, fingering, reaching forward, reaching overhead. **How do I qualify?**: **Mandatory**: - Valid Class G driver's license. - Must be available to be on-call after regular working hours. - Must be willing to work shifts. **Knowledge**: - Applied knowledge of the operation and maintenance of advanced wastewater treatment plants, with conventional treatment, and Biosolids processes; Commissioning and process changes in relation to the wastewater facility. - General knowledge of industrial processes, maintenance and repair of a variety of equipment and structures such as hydraulic, electric and mechanical plant equipment such as gauges, pumps, valves, fittings, piping, tanks, heating boilers, incinerators, hydraulic ram pumps, centrifuges, air blowers, screens and conveyors and sufficient to operate, inspect, clean, and maintain them by conducting scheduled readings and recordings; monitoring local process conditions and equipment operations (flow rates, temperatures and pressures). - Familiarity with the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and its regulations for the safe performance of his/her duties. Knowledge of occupational hazards and standard safety precautions including storage of chemicals, confined space entry, equipment lockout/tagging and personal protective equipment. - Knowledge of basic mathematics in order to make calculations regarding chemicals and operating processes. - Familiarity/competency with computerized monitoring systems such as SCADA, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and overall computer literacy to record data from inspections and monitoring activities to complete work orders and project forms to initiate repairs for maintenance. **Skills and Ability**: - Analytical and evaluative skills to identify and correct operating discrepancies; to trace abnormal conditions or noise; to report major deviations or conditions that don't respond to normal corrective actions; and to determine from several choices the method to restore normal operating conditions. - Good oral communication and interpersonal skills to liaise with clients and mentor/train new staff. - Good problem solving skills to report equipment problems or malfunctions in order to ensure urgency of the problem is conveyed and understood, and to receive direction for corrective response. - Good written communication skills to write reports and maintain neat and accurate records. - Ability to work well in a team, and to take initiative when required. - Ability to read and interpret blueprints engineering drawings and follow process drawings to aid in troubleshooting equipment problems. - Ability to use and understand operating and maintenance manuals, and other technical specifications. - A demons