GIS and CAD Technician (1 year Contract)

Oakville Hydro is a progressive electricity distribution company. Using a sophisticated network of remotely switched power lines of approximately 1,400 km, we have reliably delivered energy to households and businesses for over a century. Oakville Hydro offers customer service to developers and consumers, as well as designs, builds and maintains Oakville’s state-of-the-art power distribution system. 

Oakville Hydro was awarded the 2017 Performance Excellence Award from the Electricity Distributors Association (EDA), recognizing the organization as an exceptional leader in the industry. The Performance Excellence Award recognizes a local distribution company’s achievements in five categories: health and safety, operational excellence, financial operations, conservation and demand management and contribution to the community. 

At Oakville Hydro, we believe that our continued success as an industry leader is due to our innovative, customer focused, team-oriented employees who continually strive to exceed customer expectations and take pride in all areas of our businesses. 

Successful Oakville Hydro employees are:  

1. Customer-centric – they understand and embrace the role of delivering exemplary customer service
2. Driven to execute – they deliver on commitments no matter their challenges
3. Innovative – they look for new opportunities to improve, do things differently, and add value for our customers and business
4. Strong communicators – they build relationships by connecting with people inside and outside of our organization
5. Experts – who know their business, the challenges in the industry and are able to build solutions that help our customers
6. Leaders – who lead by example through their actions and attitudes

We are currently seeking an energetic individual who possess these qualities to join our team as a GIS and CAD Technician. 

GIS and CAD Technician (1 year Contract) 

Reporting to a Supervisor, GIS and Records Management, the GIS and CAD Technician is accountable for maintaining the GIS system and electronic drawings, and creating new electronic drawings for electrical distribution construction, including overhead projects, underground projects, subdivisions, pad pages and standard drawings.

Duties include:

• Maintain electronic drawings and create new electronic drawings for electrical distribution construction, including overhead projects, underground projects, subdivisions, pad pages, standard drawings, etc.
• Maintain, edit and import distribution network information into the ESRI ArcFM Geographical Information System (GIS)
• Perform recording/drafting for permanent records, job documents and associated drawings
• Issuing permanent records/drawings as required by other departments
• Maintain records for equipment information, update drawing indexes, upload electronic files linking to GIS
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor 

Skills and Qualifications: 

• Completion of a GIS program at the community college level or a degree/diploma that required extensive use of GIS (and AutoCAD is also required)
• Excellent working knowledge of Windows, AutoCAD/Map3D, ESRI ArcMap/ArcFM
• Two years of AutoCAD and GIS experience in an electrical utility or related business
• Knowledge of electrical distribution systems and related drawings
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Extensive computer skills using MS Office
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Strong orientation to detail.
• Sound understanding of maintenance/operations procedures.
• Excellent attendance record and strong safety awareness 

Please send your resume with the position title in the subject line, to HR@oakvillehydro.com 

Oakville Hydro is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code, Oakville Hydro will provide accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process. If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please inform Human Resources staff of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require.

July 10, 2018