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**Instrumentation Technician**:
At Halton Region, we treat everyone with respect, honesty, fairness and trust. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to establishing a qualified workforce that is reflective of the diverse population we serve. Halton Region is committed to providing accommodation to individuals with disabilities throughout the recruitment process.

If you are looking for a role where you can lead a team towards the delivery of municipal infrastructure projects for the residents of Halton, we want to hear from you. Over the next 10 years, the Region will be investing over $5 billion in transportation, water and wastewater infrastructure. We are committed to delivering high quality infrastructure for the residents, businesses and visitors to Halton Region, and are looking for dedicated, forward thinking and enthusiastic individuals to join our Public Works team

**Posting ID**: 3478
**Department**: Public Works
**Division**: Water & Wastewater Treatment
**Pay Range**: $42.11

**Job Type**: Permanent
**Hours of Work**: 40 hours per week
**Work Location**: 1141 Lakeshore, Burlington
**Employee Group**: CUPE 2620
**Posting Date**: September 18, 2024
**Application Deadline**: October 9, 2024
- **CUPE Local 2620 applicants will recieve first consideration for this position.**

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Complete a combination of proactive and reactive work safety and effectively while ensuring timely compliance to schedule and regulatory standards.
- Perform maintenance activities such as calibrations, repairs, troubleshooting process control on a variety of plant process instrumentation and related control systems.
- Plan, schedule, diagnose and repair any partial or full failures and follow escalation, failure cause and problem prevention processes to minimize repair times, meantime between failures.
- Conduct condition appraisal and refurbishment planning to restore equipment reliability and support the optimization of care plans to maintain condition over the useable life of the asset.
- Complete Hazard assessments for each work order to ensure all risks are mitigated as much as reasonably possible.
- Utilize daily, CMMS, log sheets and Microsoft office documents as required to record all work performed, materials used, and other data entry as required.
- Follow all inventory management and SAP master data coordination processes.
- Interpret and updated Operating & Maintenance (O&M) manuals, diagrams, schematics, prints and recommend/make revisions as required.
- Organize, coordinate and work with external contractors while performing proactive and reactive work.
- Respond to emergency equipment failures, troubleshoot equipment and diagnose problems, identify needed resources and make repairs or work with contractors to complete work.
- Provide support services to the Region’s Engineering group to assist with project implementation and the start-up and commissioning of equipment.
- Perform other duties, as assigned.

**Skills & Qualifications**:

- Must possess a secondary school graduation diploma with a valid Certificate of Apprenticeship along with a valid Certificate of Qualification as an Instrumentation and Control Technician (447A) in good standing with the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities.
- Three to five (3-5) years of practical experience as a qualified instrumentation technician is also required, preferably in the Industrial water or wastewater treatment sector.
- Strong working knowledge of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA), process instrumentation and the ability to analyze and troubleshoot problems in a process environment.
- Experience completing Preventive and Predictive maintenance activities and optimizing maintenance plans.
- Must be able to interpret equipment manufacturer’s schematic drawings and operating and maintenance (O&M) manuals to effectively check equipment installation and repairs and interpret design drawings to validate and provide comments on proposed work.
- Effective communication skills are required to work with both suppliers, manufacturers and technical support teams for equipment diagnosis and troubleshooting.
- Strong working knowledge of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) is required.
- Strong written and oral communication skills are required along with problem solving, priority setting, and customer service skills to work effectively in an empowered team environment.
- Must possess a good understanding of safety practices as mandated under the Occupational Health & Safety Act, as well as knowledge of Ministry of Environment and Climate Change regulations.

**Working/ Employment Conditions**:
**Working Conditions**
- Flexibility in working hours will be required.
- The incumbent must be prepared to work outside of normal working hours and in adverse conditions.
- Participation in paid standby is also required.
- The incumbent must be able to perform all the necessary physical