Supervisor, Scada

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When you join the City of Guelph, you join a team of 2000 full and part-time employees who deliver services the community relies on every day. Together, we are bringing to life Guelph’s vision of an inclusive, connected, and prosperous city where we look after each other and our environment.

As a regional top employer, the City of Guelph values its employees and offers competitive salaries, excellent benefit packages, opportunities for professional development, a healthy work-life balance, and many roles with flexible work options. Our corporate values are integrity, service, inclusion, wellness, and learning. Guelph is consistently ranked as one of the best places in Canada to live, work, and play—all good reasons to consider a career in this beautiful city.

Job Summary:
**Your role**:

- Provides all aspects of supervision including recruitment, training, development, and addresses performance management issues with assigned staff.
- Plan, administer, delegate, supervise, and direct the daily work of SCADA team members.
- Provide visible and positive leadership to staff consistent with the commitments of the City’s Leadership Charter, developing and nurturing a work environment that is inclusive, respectful, and motivating for staff.
- Required to participate in on-call roster.
- Supervise and update a results driven, comprehensive operations and maintenance program to ensure continual system improvement while minimizing systems down time.
- Develop annual operating budgets, monitor operating expenditures, and complete related variance reports; assist with the development of annual capital budgets and multi-year operating and capital forecasts.
- Ensure SCADA specific adherence to the Safe Drinking Water Act, Environmental Protection Act, Clean Water Act and other applicable legalisation.
- Monitor, review, summarize and ensure compliance with applicable legislation and regulations including preparation of regulatory reports and support for divisional quality management systems including the DWQMS.
- Effectively communicate with staff in areas of operations, maintenance, capital delivery, construction, planning and development, as well as, contractors and consultants to resolve problems, execute project work and/or develop policies, procedures and specifications for SCADA systems.
- Implement and maintain solutions for the maintenance of SCADA and automation of plant operations to support functions of departmental staff using SCADA technology.
- Responsible for maintaining and updating system integrity and security measures including preventative maintenance and replacement program for all SCADA and security assets including hardware and software.
- Oversee the development, implementation and maintenance of SCADA system disaster recovery plans.
- Coordinate closely with operations and other maintenance trades to perform field/site investigations supporting troubleshooting efforts to resolve potential equipment failure and/or process control related operational issues.
- Openly communicate plans and strategies to overcome system specific problems so potential impacts to divisional works and initiatives can be mitigated.
- Support Operations related emergency response activities and participate in departmental emergency response planning and perform public relations duties as required.
- Develop, maintain, review and improve SCADA specific standards on a regular basis and establish standards where they do not yet exist in consultation with relevant staff and management.
- Oversee the SCADA programming and communications for distribution system District Metered Areas (DMAs).
- Oversee the analysis and troubleshooting of operating software, hardware and communications malfunctions to determine problems and take appropriate corrective action.
- Support internal benchmarking and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Supervise procurement of major services, materials, supplies, and equipment; develop and support service agreements and contracts; develop and award Tenders, RFP’s, RFQ’s and manage increases in scope to existing projects.
- Liaises with other Environmental Services divisions and City Departments to coordinate and ensure alignment in initiatives and efficient service delivery.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.

**Qualifications**:

- Possess a demonstrated record of strong leadership, technical competence, customer focus, innovation/creativity, team advocacy and be committed to results.
- Must be able to demonstrate a level of expertise and knowledge related to project preparation, and administration to manage SCADA implementation projects normally gained through progressive experience in the water/wastewater treatment field, specifically in start-up/commissioning, operating, maintenance and capital contract management.
- Familiarity with security systems in water/wastewater utility systems using SCADA principles.
- Familiar with network administration,