Contract Services Technician

**Contract Services Technician**:
**Job ID**:

- 229857

**Posting status**:

- Open

**Organization**:

- Ministry of Transportation

**Division**:

- Transportation Infrastructure Management Division, Contract Services Northwest

**City**:

- Thunder Bay

**Position(s) language**:

- English

**Job term**:

- 1 Permanent

**Job code**:

- 12724 - Technician 2, Engineering Off

**Salary**:

- $1,290.40 - $1,576.50 Per week*
*Indicates the salary listed as per the OPSEU Collective Agreement.
- Bring your financial and procurement experience along with your strong analytical skills to this exciting opportunity at the Ministry of Transportation. Under the supervision of the Head of Contracts Services Section, you will help to maintain and monitor the ministry's commitment to deliver the Construction and Maintenance Programs.**About the job**: In this role, you will:

- Provide and maintain financial, forecasting and material controls for the Construction Management Office to meet Regional commitments
- Assist, prepare and maintain annual contract budgets
- Provide procurement and tendering support to Ministry staff
- Prepare, review and analyze financial reports
- Prepare correspondence and liaise with MTO staff, service providers and other stakeholders

**What you bring to the team**:
**Technical Skills**:

- Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting and financial accounting processes
- Knowledge of procurement and tendering policies and processes as they relate to the acquisition of service providers engaged in the delivery of highway construction

**Communication, Interpersonal Skills and Relationship Building Skills**:

- Strong interpersonal skills to build collaborative relationships with ministry staff and stakeholders
- Strong oral and written communication skills to prepare correspondence and guide/train all levels of staff
- Demonstrated ability to support, promote and implement organizational change

**Analytical, Research, Planning and Problem Solving Skills**:

- Proven skills in data gathering and analysis techniques to gather financial and technical data
- Sound analytical and research skills to forecast and monitor expenditures
- Effective problem solving skills to prioritize and identify issues of importance and recommend appropriate course of action
- Demonstrated sound planning skills to prioritize workload and coordinate with other program areas

**Organizational and Planning Skills**:

- You have planning skills to prioritize own workload and coordinate with other sections and external service providers to ensure that contracts/agreements are procured and paid, and forecasts and reports are produced in a timely manner.**How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility**: We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's _Human Rights Code_ and the _Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005._ We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.

Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:

- diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
- accessibility
- Anti-Racism Policy

**Additional information**:

- Monday, May 19, 2025 11:59 pm EDT

**Position details**:

- 1 English Permanent, 615 James St S, Thunder Bay, North Region

**Compensation group**:

- Ontario Public Service Employees Union

**Work hours**:

- Schedule 3

**Category**:

- Maintenance and Trades

**Posted on**:

- Monday, May 5, 2025

**Note**:

- Less qualified applicants may be considered on an underfill basis.
- The information that you provide for the purpose of this competition and the results from this competition may be used to fill other positions. These positions may be of various tenures including short-term assignments. Your information and the results from this competition will be retained for the purpose of filling vacancies in accordance with the applicable collective agreement or policy provisions.
- T-MT-227619/25

**How to apply**:

- Your cover letter and resume combined should not exceed five (5) pages. For tips and tools on how to write a concise cover letter and resume, review the Writing a Cover Letter and Resume: Tips, Tools and Resources.
- Customize your cover letter and resume to the qualifications listed on the job ad. Using concrete examples, you must show how you demonstrated the requirements for this job. We rely on the information you prov