Job Summary

Reporting to the Supervisor of Infrastructure and Systems Improvement, the Systems Performance Specialist is responsible for monitoring water and wastewater system performance and identifying system performance issues. The position’s primary role includes water and wastewater system performance data management, quality assurance and reporting as well as performance data analysis to identify system performance issues for the linear and stations operational sections. This position is also responsible for overseeing the Regional Wastewater Flow Monitoring Program and Regional Water Flow, Pressure and Quality Monitoring Program.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead Regional Wastewater Flow Monitoring Program and Regional Water Flow, Pressure and Quality Monitoring Program;
• Develop contract documents, including tenders and RFP’s, manage consultants and contractors providing field and engineering services;
• Develop and implement strategies for monitoring and performance assessment of linear and vertical water and wastewater infrastructure including collection and analysis of information required to make key operational and business decisions;
• Monitor and troubleshoot Halton’s wastewater and water systems via deployment of field monitoring equipment, assessment of system performance leveraging GIS, in-system monitoring, SCADA and hydraulic modeling;
• Monitor, evaluate, and analyze data relative to water and wastewater system performance in order to proactively identify potential correlations, patterns, and system issues;
• Recommends operational and analytical strategies to improve system performance with supporting technical and business case analyses;
• Extract, transform, analyze and interpret data from multiple data sources, ensuring data quality and integrity is maintained from source to the final output;
• Identify areas for data quality improvements and support solutions to resolve issues.
• Assist with the collection of information required for benchmarking and performance metrics.
• Cultivate and maintain effective working relationships with various internal and external stakeholders including public, staff, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and local municipalities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills & Qualifications

Essential

• University Degree or Diploma in a Civil or Environmental Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in the water and wastewater industry developing and implementing data analytics and business intelligence solutions.
• Demonstrated background and understanding of GIS principles and practices and experience using the ESRI suite of software such as ArcGIS.
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively, communicate and build relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
• Excellent project management, planning, decision-making along with excellent customer service skills, report writing, presentation, and computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite in combination with a solid understanding of data management and applications.
• Proficiency in data extraction, cleaning, collection, organization, analysis and interpretation from various systems such as SCADA, SAP, LIMS, and various databases within a DMBoK2 framework.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, be able to assess and evaluate projects and programs against key performance indicators and communicate progress clearly to a diverse audience
• Knowledge of water distribution and wastewater collection processes and infrastructure.
• Skills in water and wastewater system performance assessment, an understanding of the methodologies, equipment and instrumentation used for field data collection and monitoring. This includes monitoring and analysis of environmental and process variables (e.g. flow, rainfall, pressure, quality, energy), computer tools used for analysis, infiltration/inflow studies and system capacity assessment, basement flooding investigations, hydraulic modeling, approaches to system optimization, GIS and management of large databases.

Additional Skills and Qualifications

Preferred

• Certified Analytics Professional, Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP), etc.
• Experience with Javascript, Python or R.

Working/ Employment Conditions

Working Conditions

• Travel will be required. Must provide own transportation.

Employment Conditions

• The successful candidate will be made an offer of employment on condition that the Regional Municipality of Halton receives a current (obtained within the past six (6) months), original and acceptable Criminal Records Check, by the first day of employment.
• In support of the Region’s commitment to a healthy and safe workplace and community, the Region has a vaccination requirement for all employees. The successful candidate will be made an offer of employment on the condition of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and able to provide proof of vaccination. The candidate will be asked to provide the Region with proof of full vaccination, prior to their employment start date. The requirement to be fully vaccinated is subject to the Ontario Human Rights Code. If the candidate is unable to vaccinate for a reason protected by the Code, a request for accommodation can be requested and written proof satisfactory to the Region will be required.