Operational Technology Analyst
Operational Technology Analyst
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The Opportunity
Halifax Water is inviting applicants for Two (2) Regular Operational Technology Analysts in the Corporate Services is a unionized position in the CUPE local 227. Halifax Water believes a diverse workforce positively contributes to its success and the success of our community. We encourage applications from qualified African Nova Scotians LGBTQ community racially visible persons women in non-traditional positions persons with disabilities and Indigenous persons. Halifax Water encourages applicants to self-identify in the cover letter.
Interested qualified candidates are asked to submit a cover letter and resume stating Competition #HW25-109E confirming their interest by 4:30 pm on July 1 2025.
What youll do
Responsibilities
1. Participate in the development and implementation of long-term OT system road map projects through collaboration with various departments to identify operational requirements and improvements.
2. Take a leading role in the development review and enhancements of governance policies procedures workflows and training materials pertaining to OT systems.
3. Configure applications and devices based on cyber security best practices and ensure Halifax Water policies are being followed to protect all data and OT systems.
4. Application and system account management within the OT environment.
5. Responsible for maintaining testing and verifying the integrity of processes in support of disaster recovery and incident response pertaining to assigned OT systems.
6. Provide end user training on Halifax Water OT systems to staff. Provide advanced training on application configuration to Technical Services team members.
7. Stay informed on industry knowledge best practices and OT application administration.
8. Document application configuration and architecture documenting both hardware and software dependencies and integrations.
9. Collaborate with the Enterprise Architects and Cyber Analyst (OT) to develop and maintain the enterprise architecture and OT system architectures.
10. Plan test and control the release of new features for OT systems.
11. Track all change requests for the assigned applications and maintain release notes for each application update.
12. Resolve work requests in adherence to established response times and provide status updates.
13. Provide recommendations to management as a subject matter expert.
14. Create/update sites lists libraries templates themes site definitions etc. within OT application environments.
15. Coordinate and communicate with third party vendors to address issues and provide enhancements across multiple applications.
16. Performs such other duties as may be assigned.
What youll need
Qualifications
- Education:
- Grade 12 plus additional Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologist or Post-secondary in Business or Computer Science or related field professional training in Information Technology or a suitable equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
- Experience:
- 5 years progressive experience related to OT application administration. Related equivalent experience may be considered.
- Candidates must have advanced analytical and system diagnostic experience.
- Experience working in a process control environment.
- Experience with network practices for OT including the Purdue model NISTR3 protocols such as Ethernet/IP Modbus DNP3 SNMP PI connectors and OPC.
- Experience with human machine interfaces (HMI).
- Experience with real-time data historians.
- Experience with time-series alarm notification.
- Experience developing enterprise architecture databases.
- Experience implementing cyber security best practices in OT systems.
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A little bit about us
Halifax Water
As Atlantic Canadas Largest Water Utility our purpose is to supply and safeguard sustainable high-quality water services.
Everything we do at Halifax Water is tied to our purpose. With employees who are dedicated to supplying high-quality services for water wastewater and stormwater through a One Team One Water attitude we can meet the challenges of a growing population aging infrastructure and increasing regulatory compliance.
Halifax Water employees strive to be stewards of our environment and are fueled by a passion to serve our communities. Employee commitment and dedication of service mean a great deal to our customers stakeholders and to Halifax Water.
As an employee Halifax Water is proud to offer you:
- Pension & Benefits: We invest in our employees. As a member of our team you will have access to a competitive benefits package including health insurance retirement plans long-term disability paid holidays vacation sick leave fitness incentives and much more. Learn more about the benefits of working at Halifax Water on our website;
- Diversity Equity and Inclusion: We continually foster a more diverse workforce representative of our communities at all job levels. We know that a diverse workforce positively contributes to our success and the success of our community.
- Career & Professional Development: We encourage job development opportunities for all employees including on-the-job training tuition assistance eLearning courses classroom-based training and more.
We are committed to providing a safe and hazard-free work environment. Our employees health and well-being are a top priority and we promote a safety-first culture to provide daily healthy safe sustainable and reliable services. We take this responsibility seriously and feel immense pride in reaching beyond industry service standards.
As a public service utility operating critical infrastructure on behalf of our customers our employees are trained in Emergency Measures Operations (EMO) and Incident Command System (ICS). This type of training allows Halifax Water to respond to all emergencies from simple water main breaks to keeping customer water flowing (water wastewater and stormwater) through Hurricanes and other major natural events.
To learn more about What We Do visit Halifax Water .
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
