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Status: Contract (12 months)
Working Conditions: Hybrid Working Environment
Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
Location(s): Pickering, ON
Shifts(s): Days
Travel: Yes- 25%
Deadline to Apply: February 22, 2024
Electrify your career and help build a brighter tomorrow.
Every generation has a challenge that defines them. At OPG, we are calling on all innovators, disruptors, thought leaders and change-makers. Join us to electrify life in one generation and build a sustainable future powered by our electricity, our ideas, and our people. Join OPG and make history.
Whether you work in the skilled trades or are a business professional, a career at OPG is an opportunity to electrify your life on - and off - the job.
Now we’ve set our sights on being a net-zero carbon company by 2040 and a catalyst to help the economies where we operate achieve net-zero by 2050.
OPG operates a diverse portfolio of generation assets including nuclear, hydroelectric, biomass and solar. We are also a cleantech leader and innovator, offering challenging and unique work opportunities. Help us use our power to change the world.
This position is moving to OPG Corporate Headquarters: In Summer 2025, OPG will officially welcome employees to our new Corporate Headquarters located at 1908 Colonel Sam Drive, Oshawa, Ontario. This new space will enable teamwork, collaboration and innovation that will help us to achieve our mission to electrify life in one generation.
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Job Overview
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is seeking a result driven Plant Engineer to join our Renewable Generation team in the role of Plant Engineer/Officer at our Pickering, ON location.
Reporting to the Manager of Equipment Reliability, the Plant Engineer/Officer will support monitoring and oversight of the equipment reliability program for our hydroelectric generating stations located across Ontario.
This role ensures that the RG ER program maintains high quality standards, meets industry requirements, and operates efficiently in preventing equipment failures. To excel in this role, we are looking for an individual who is not only passionate about their work and the equipment, but also possesses a questioning attitude and is driven to achieve excellence. Strong teamwork and leadership skills are essential, as you will be working closely with multidisciplinary, cross-functional teams to achieve results.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in an environment where you will contribute to Ontario Power Generation’s continued growth and success in generating safe, clean, reliable low-cost power in a sustainable manner.
Key Accountabilities
- Provide oversight and direction for equipment reliability of hydropower generation assets - both electrical and mechanical assets.
- Provide input into asset management procedures and programs that affect equipment reliability.
- Access AS9, create database queries, export data.
- Create reports and trends using Power Bl..
- Perform condition and risk assessments and provide recommendations with respect to life cycle management of infrastructure.
- Provide input to business plans, work plans, budgets with respect to project priorities, schedules, and resource requirements.
- Influence and collaborate with stakeholders across Enterprise Engineering and Operations, consultants, contractors, and government agencies as required.
- As a technical expert provide advice, guidance, consultation, and services for engineering problems including equipment failure and unsatisfactory equipment performance. You may also be required to conduct field investigations, preparation of reports, and recommend actions.
- Develop plans, standards and technical procedures for inspection, maintenance, and monitoring programs.
- Define and oversee maintenance strategy implementation across multidisciplinary systems, participate in cross-functional challenge and oversight meetings on equipment performance, etc
Education
- 4-year university degree in Engineering (data analytics, computer science, and coding skills are an asset)
Qualifications
- Experience working in an engineering environment is preferred.
- Working knowledge of Hydroelectric Generating Equipment is preferred.
- Experience with equipment reliability programs execution and/or oversight
- Experience with Data Collection and Analytics in an industrial environment
- Experience working with large complex databases using modern software tools and methodologies.
- Experience working in a Utilities organization.
- Experience with planning and conducting assessments and studies
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work equally well independently or within a team environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication including report writing.
- Willingness to travel 10% of time.
- Valid Class G Ontario driving license (or equivalent) in good standing.
The successful candidate will exhibit uncompromising integrity and commitment to upholding corporate values and the OPG Code of Business Conduct.
What Makes a Career at OPG Different?
As Ontario’s largest clean energy generator, we’re building, expanding, and innovating the equipment and technology that keeps Ontario powered with clean, reliable energy.
At OPG, our values are our strengths. They are fundamental truths about our organization that don’t change:
Safety – it’s our business.
Integrity – always lead with integrity
Excellence – never satisfied with good enough
Inclusion – working together for powerful outcomes
Innovation - creativity accelerates possibility.
Here's why OPG might just be the ideal workplace for you:
- Exceptional range of opportunities province-wide
- Long-term career growth and development opportunities
- Electricity is vital to the province and OPG’s clean electricity is helping decarbonize other sectors.
Our promise to you:
- We care about the safety and the well-being of our employees. It is our utmost priority.
- A supportive work environment where you can be your best every day.
- Opportunities to stretch and develop.
- Offer different ways for you to give back to the communities where we operate.
- Partner with Indigenous communities and support local businesses.
We support employment equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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Are you ready to start a career that has the power to electrify life on and off the job? Apply now.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Please submit your application online at https://jobs.opg.com/ by 11:59 PM E.S.T., February 22, 2024. OPG thanks all those who apply; however, only candidates considered for an interview will be contacted.
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