Scada Support Specialist

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. **Join our team as a SCADA Support Specialist with OCWA** In this role, you will provide advice, technical and engineering services, expertise and analysis for optimizing water and wastewater process control and automation systems (e.g. hardware, software, instrumentation) in support of the Ontario Clean Water Agency's (OWCA) operational and compliance activities. **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?**: - Provide advice and technical expertise to clients on the services required for water and wastewater process control and automation systems including SCADA. - Evaluate, define, recommend and provide detail system and programming requirements; creates custom programs or modifies existing/new software in response to plant requests and/or changing requirements. - Provide guidelines and development of SCADA architecture, templates and standards related to instrumentation, process control and automation systems at Water Treatment and Sewage Treatment plants to keep plant processes in compliance with provincial regulations. - Installs and commissions new electrical/electronic equipment, monitoring and control systems by designing and laying out various electrical /electronic control systems, control loops, panels. - Investigates and analyzes water and wastewater plants to develop situation-specific recommendations that provides optimization and cost reduction opportunities in electrical power usage, process equipment or specialized control algorithms; identifies issues and elements requiring further study. - Provides advice and technical expertise to clients on the services required for water and wastewater process control and automation systems in order to maintain plant compliance. - Investigates new technology and determines suitable technology for use with the Agency. **How do I qualify?**: **Mandatory**: - Valid Class G driver's license. - Certification as a licensed Construction or Industrial Maintenance Electrician or equivalent. **Knowledge**: - Theoretical and practical knowledge of water and wastewater treatment operation processes, design, instrumentation, process control and automation systems to develop, implement and commission complex SCADA systems. - Knowledge of project management and methodology to manage and control concurrent projects for delivery of services to clients relating to data acquisition, process control and automation. - Knowledge of OCWA's large-scale network and telecommunications environment, standards and operating systems, computer language, ladder logic, relational and document based database management systems; in-depth theoretical and practical. - Knowledge of water and wastewater treatment operation processes, design, instrumentation, process control and automation systems. - Ability to monitor and review network, hardware, software and instrumentation performance and make recommendations on ways to improve performance and operating capacities, diagnose and develop solutions to operating problems, evaluate feasibility of requests for additional/new process monitoring and control systems and components, facilitate troubleshooting. - Knowledge of system development practices to assist in the development/preparation of technical specifications for installation and testing of systems. - Knowledge of Health and Safety legislative requirements and safe workplace practices to implement project plans in the field. **Skills**: - Strong understanding of and commitment to providing competitive, commercialized services in a client-driven business. - Presentation and persuasion skills to demonstrate the merits of the Agency's products to potential or existing client and to present recommendations/proposals for optimization and cost reduction opportunities on plant