Project Specialist, Water Services

Why Guelph:
**What we offer**
We offer competitive wages and comprehensive benefits to meet the needs of our diverse employees. Many of our positions offer:

- Paid vacation days, increasing with years of service
- Paid personal days;
- Hybrid and flexible work arrangements;
- Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, including 100-per-cent employer matching;
- Extended health and dental benefits, including Health Care Spending Account;
- Employee and Family Assistance Program;
- Parental leave top up program;
- Learning and development opportunities including tuition assistance
- Employee recognition programs.

Position Overview:
We are hiring for a temporary** Project Specialist**, Water Services who will be responsible for the implementation of the City of Guelph Secondary Disinfection Action Plan on behalf of the Water Services Division. Reporting to the Manager of Technical Services, this position will liaise within the department and throughout the organization, as well as external Consultants and Contractors to effectively coordinate and deliver projects within the established schedule, budget, and scope.

**Key duties and responsibilities**
- Serve as project specialist through design and implement the City’s Secondary Disinfection Residual Dead End Management Action Plan. This plan includes development and implementation of a dead-end flushing infrastructure at defined locations within the City’s distribution system.
- Manage a variety of assignments in one or more specialized areas of involving water distribution systems, water treatment plant/process and various water civil / municipal projects.
- Coordinate, direct and manage consultant and contractor resources on behalf of the City.
- Coordinate review of detailed designs for engineering construction projects for water facilities, transmission mains, distribution mains, servicing piping, customer metering, pumping, treatment, and other related work, including review of design calculations as required.
- Develop formal project documents including Project Charters, Schedules, Risk Registers, and Business Cases, and ensure project management processes follow the City’s protocols.
- Complete financial reporting and coordinate project financial accounting including processing of payment certificates and invoices.
- Liaise with City’s Engineering and Transportation Services, Planning and Building Services, Facilities and Energy Management, and other City Departments to coordinate projects and ensure alignment and efficient project delivery.
- Attend meetings with City staff, internal departments, and external stakeholders as a representative of Guelph Water Services.
- Conduct studies and pilot programs as directed by Water Services management staff.
- Assist with capital planning and support the implementation of related capital upgrades and studies.
- Support internal benchmarking and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Supervise procurement of major services, materials, supplies, and equipment, develops and support service agreements and contracts, develop and award Tenders, RFP’s, RFQ’s and manage increases in scope to existing projects.
- Responsible for writing reports and memos for customers, staff, management, and Council as well as SOP’s, technical specifications, and work instructions.
- Other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications and requirements**
- Completion of post-secondary education in Civil or Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, or a related discipline.
- Experience managing water capital construction projects on time and on budget.
- Knowledge of all distribution system water-related project phases (including conceptual design, pre-design, detailed design, and construction administration).
- Excellent understanding of municipal water infrastructure and process design.
- Ability to manage scope, budget and meet tight deadlines as well as properly coordinate the efforts of multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Knowledge of the Safe Water Drinking Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act and other applicable legislation.
- Knowledge of water industry and municipal and provincial regulations related to groundwater water supply and treatment, operation and maintenance and environmental compliance.
- Excellent project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of staff, stakeholders, the media, and the public.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office.
- Experience with project management software tools and GIS.

This position is eligible for hybrid and flexible work arrangement options (as per current corporate policy).

**Pay/Salary**
Non-Union Grade: 5: $44.77- $55.97 per hour

**How to apply