Scada Specialist

SCADA Specialist

**Job Number**:2238

**Job Type**: Full-Time
**Location**: 368 Mill Park Dr - Administration Building
**Job Category**: Other
**Number of Positions**:1
**Department**: SCADA and Operational Technology
**Division**: Engineering and Environmental Services
**Hours of Work**: 35 hours. Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
- Hybrid | 2 days in office
**Union**: Management/Management Support
**Grade**: Management/Management Support Grade 06
**Salary Range**: $91,291.20 - $114,114.00 annually

**Posting Date**: January 21, 2025

**About Us**

The Region of Waterloo is a thriving, diverse community committed to fostering opportunities for current and future generations. Home to over 674,000 residents and expected to grow to nearly one million by 2051. Guided by our 2023-2027 Strategic Plan, “Growing with Care,” we focus on equity, inclusion, and sustainability. Our mission is to provide essential services that enhance the quality of life for all residents, while our core values emphasize caring for people and the land we share. Join us and be part of a team dedicated to making a meaningful difference in our community.

Dish with One Spoon Wampum:

- Waterloo Region is part of the Dish with One Spoon wampum, a treaty guiding our commitment to:

- Recognizing our shared humanity and land
- Taking only what we need
- Leaving some for others
- Keeping the dish clean
- This agreement underpins our vision, mission, and core values, and reinforces our dedication to meaningful reconciliation and equity.

**The Role**
- Supports Water and Wastewater Services SCADA systems. Works collaboratively with the Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) when supporting the Wastewater SCADA system. Oversees daily operations, maintenance, and upgrades of local SCADA computers, remote processing units, communications frontend processor and system, file server, and SCADA network. Architects, designs, implements, upgrades, and enhances new and existing servers, storage, backup, wired and wireless infrastructure for SCADA. Works with other divisional staff and staff from Design & Construction to identify, recommend, and implement technology solutions that support project goals for SCADA control.**Duties/Responsibilities**
- Supervises a SCADA and Information System Analyst (Water). Provides system training and support to divisional operations and maintenance staff as needed. Administers contracts with contractors as required. Supervises up to 30 staff as part of the on-call supervisor rotation.
- Analyzes, installs, maintains, and administers operating software, hardware, and communications malfunctions and takes corrective action. Reviews problems with supervisors, instrument technicians, Process/SCADA operators, consultants, contractors, and vendors, as needed.
- Determines hardware and software supplies and equipment requirements, and performs daily checks.
- Responds to operational and communication inquiries, complaints, and emergency calls (24/7). Directs corrective action, notifying staff, local municipalities, contractors, regulatory agencies, and other organizations. Develops and implements operational procedures and programs (with input from others) to meet drinking water and other legislative requirements. Reviews operational standards, and recommends and implements changes. Creates technical specifications and determines system requirements based on needs. Builds and tests for performance, stability, and quality. Modifies system design to take advantage of equipment and resources.
- Develops, implements, and maintains software and hardware to transfer SCADA historical data into information systems. Verifies and confirms data for proper collection and accuracy of data.
- Designs and upgrades SCADA system specifications, graphic displays, historical data, real-time data, and control databases, and ensures compliance with developed standards. Creates and maintains virtual machine interfaces.
- Provides expertise for operational and capital projects and consultants on process narratives, I/O lists, process and instrumentation drawings, controller logic, and descriptions of water and wastewater process operations into executable programs on the system using real-time software. Provides technical support to operations and capital projects. Coordinates activities with instrumentation and control technicians.
- Maintains and configures system computers, servers, local and data network, and ensures system functionality, accuracy, security, and integrity. Maintains back-up computer systems.
- Creates, maintains, and updates SCADA real-time database points. Maps points to field devices on RPUs with instrumentation and control staff and consultants.
- Documents/maintains system specifications.
- Reviews and verifies network diagrams, install procedures, failover and disaster recovery procedures, design specifications, implementation checklists, standards, and operational support processes to ensure operational effectiveness and co