Do you like being hands-on with complex systems and making a tangible impact on environmental safety? Can you see yourself operating and maintaining critical wastewater treatment processes while supporting a high-performance team? Our Port Hope location is seeking an Operations Technician to help ensure the safe and efficient operation of our facilities. If you answered yes, this may be the job for you—apply today!

• Assisting in the safe operation and maintenance of the Port Hope and Port Granby Waste Water Treatment Plants within the terms of the Waste Nuclear Substance Licences and applicable CNL operating practices.
• Operating process equipment, including start-up, shutdown, valve manipulations, and chemical sampling, as well as operating pumps, fans, compressors, hoists, lift trucks, overhead cranes, rig slings, and lifting tackle when required.
• Preparing chemical solutions and performing routine laboratory analysis.
• Operating and maintaining chemical handling equipment safely.
• Troubleshooting operating faults quickly and accurately, and implementing appropriate corrective action.
• Assisting and collaborating with other technical staff in performing tests, investigations, and special studies.
• Collecting water and solids samples from the processing equipment for laboratory analyses.
• Recording readings accurately from a variety of instruments, SCADA systems, and other control panels, making necessary interpretations, performing calibrations, and keeping the supervisor informed.
• Supporting the Operations Specialist in developing and maintaining procedures, maintenance schedules, equipment inventories, check sheets, and protocols to ensure work processes are defined and conducted within the approved operating envelope.
• Inspecting and testing safety equipment and associated control systems.
• Identifying technical or operational issues, including abnormal situations or incidents, and reporting recommendations or solutions to the Operations Specialist.
• Assisting with collecting, assembling, and analyzing data from process monitoring, sampling, and associated environmental systems.
• Interfacing with Design Consultants and Construction Contractors to ensure understanding of operating requirements and systematic implementation of commissioning and turnover requirements.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.