PROCESS & COMPLIANCE TECHNICIAN

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Do you want to be part of a team providing safe and reliable drinking water to thousands of Ontarians each day?

Become a Process and Compliance Technician with OCWA today!

Who We Are
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.

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About the job

In this role, you will implement programs to support environmental compliance, process control programs, and health and safety requirements for water and wastewater treatment processes within the Georgian Highlands Region.

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What you bring to the team

Mandatory requirements

• Class 3 certification in Water Treatment, Class 3 in Wastewater Treatment.
o May consider lesser qualified candidates as underfill - minimum Operator-in-Training (OIT), as specified in O.Reg. 128/04 of the Safe Drinking Water Act and O.Reg. 129/04 of the Ontario Water Resources Act.
• Post-secondary education in an environmental discipline or field knowledge
• Valid Class G driver's license.
• Must be available after regular working hours for emergency situations or on-call.

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of water and wastewater treatment operations.
• Extensive knowledge in environmental compliance and health and safety requirements.
• Excellent knowledge of the processes related to the water and wastewater treatment.
• Good knowledge of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and other relevant regulatory and legislative acts, codes, policies, guidelines and procedures related to workplace safety.
• Good knowledge of environmental compliance including relevant regulatory and legislative acts, codes, policies, guidelines and procedures related environmental compliance and the impact on the operation of the water and wastewater treatment systems.
• Good knowledge and understanding is required to apply, interpret, implement and maintain programs based on legislated requirements and various internal operational processes.
• Excellent knowledge of computers, operating programs and systems.

Skills and Ability include

• Analytical, problem-solving, planning and scheduling skills to inspect, operate and monitor processes and equipment. Make process control adjustments; resolve operating issues.
• Demonstrate analytical skills to analyze data, monitor local performance against legal requirements and corporate goals, and resolve compliance issues.
• Evaluative skills to evaluate compliance and quality status of water and/or wastewater treatment facilities.
• Auditing and inspection skills to conduct internal audits, respond to findings, participate in inspections and make recommendations to assigned facilities.
• Excellent oral and presentation skills to provide technical compliance advice to a variety of internal and external contacts in addition to facilitating in-house training to operations staff.
• Excellent written skills with an ability to prepare written technical letters, reports, procedures which will include photos, charts and graphs.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Knowledge of database functions and maintenance programs.
• Ability to work in a team environment and independently.
• Effective time management skills with the ability to prioritize and take initiative.
• Strong attention to detail

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Additional information:

Note:

• T-AQ-133491/19

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Language requirements and assessment:
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