Technologist II

Join the City of Medicine Hat as an Engineering Technologist with Environmental Utilities

Permanent, Full time

In Medicine Hat you'll feel right at home in an affordable city that still retains that 'small town feeling'. And here at the City of Medicine Hat, you'll be involved in delivering a new vision aimed at making an amazing city even better.

This is an intermediate technical position that provides support to the department responsible for municipal water, wastewater, and solid waste services. The position collaborates with engineers, technologists, and operations staff to deliver these essential services today and to plan for a sustainable future for the community.

Our ideal candidate

• Under the guidance of the Manager- Engineering and senior technologists, designs, analyses, conducts network simulations and evaluates various aspects of municipal water and wastewater infrastructure with minimum guidance. Also prepares technical drawings and develops specifications.
• Conducts field studies and trains others in the use of engineering equipment including GPS/electronic survey equipment, personal computers, programmable dataloggers, flow measuring devices and similar types of technology.
• Uses and customizes specialized engineering and corporate software for comprehensive modelling, analysis, design, data gathering, data compilation and records management in areas of water, wastewater and landfill operations.
• Creates, revises and maintains infrastructure records by CAD drafting, scanning, spatial referencing, reproducing, retrieving and filing.
• Technical liaison and engineering data exchange with consultants, clients and other departments

Qualifications

• Successful completion of a Civil Engineering or Drafting Technology Diploma from a recognized post-secondary institution.
• Minimum of two (2) years of directly related experience in a municipal environment or two (2) years of related experience as City of Medicine Hat Technologist I.
• Membership in Alberta Society of Engineering Technologists & C.E.T. or ability to obtain.
• Willing to participate in professional development as per the Environmental Utilities Engineering Technologist Training Plan.
• Possess and maintain a valid Class 5 Alberta driver's license with an acceptable driving record.
• A management approved equivalent combination of training and experience may be considered.
• This position has been identified as Safety Sensitive and requires the completion of a satisfactory pre-employment drug screen.

Why join us?

• Make a difference in the community you live through meaningful and challenging work.
• Collaborative environment: Work alongside passionate professionals dedicated to achieving excellence and driving positive change within the organization.
• Career growth opportunity & Competitive salaries: Gain valuable experience and competencies to process through the Technologist 1-4 levels.
• Competitive rate of pay based on the successful candidate's relevant qualifications:

Technologist Progression

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Technologist I

$36.23

$38.16

$40.07

Technologist II

$40.76

$42.72

$44.89

Technologist III

$45.57

$47.29

$49.69

Technologist IV

$50.38

$51.86

$54.51

Over the past 10 years, EU has replaced a combined total of 46 km of water and sanitary main. THAT'S INNOVATION MEDICINE HAT

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