Job Overview:
Safety Comes First is a core value at Hydro One, and we remain committed to taking every reasonable precaution to ensure a respectful, safe and healthy working environment. Further to this commitment, we have adopted a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy to protect the health of our employees from the hazard of COVID-19. New employees will be required to declare their vaccination status to Hydro One. Employees who do not provide proof of vaccination status may not enter any 3rd party locations that require full vaccination (e.g. customer properties).
Hydro One is proud to be the largest electricity transmission and distribution provider in Ontario, serving nearly 1.5 million customers. We have a long history in the industry with our roots dating back over 110 years to 1906. Since then, we have worked to grow and evolve to meet the changing needs of our customers and communities across Ontario. Today, we’re focused on providing exceptional customer service and ensuring we are building safe communities where we live, work and play.
What you’ll do:
- Log irregularities, inaccuracies and nonconformances as outlined by the quality management system and report to supervisor.
- Utilize shop test apparatus and semi-automated test consoles to troubleshoot and perform functionality tests electrically.
- Understand routine and non-routine test procedures and requirements, such as functional, dielectric, transient interference immunity and environmental testing.
- Knowledge of federal and provincial regulatory requirements related to AMI systems, such as Measurement Canada Rules and Regulations, IESO Market Rules and MDM/R and familiar with ANSI and CSA regulations
- Participate in the continuous quality assurance of production test equipment, meter test consoles and standards to maintain the accuracy tolerances prescribed by Hydro One and the federal regulatory authorities, as applicable.
- Maintain current knowledge of existing, new and emerging developments in metering and network technologies, communication protocols (voice/data, wired/wireless, LAN/WAN) and processes.
- Requires knowledge and experience using AMI Equipment manufacturers software programs, automated test console programs utilized by Hydro One.
- Review quality records pertaining to the acceptance of sealed meters and relays, for accuracy and completeness including calibration, test data, travellers, etc., and ensure equipment is suitable for acceptance as it pertains to the Meter and Relay Services Quality Management System, ISO 9001-2008, federal and provincial regulatory standards, Hydro One standards and to customer specific requirements.
- Perform other duties as required.
- Provide technical support for AMI meters, network equipment, wholesale revenue metering and power quality monitoring systems (PQMS) and provide assistance to field and head office on matters related to design, commissioning and maintenance of the aforementioned equipment.
- Test and repair various types of instruments, including: revenue billing meters, power quality meters, panel meters, and network equipment.
- Periodically test and troubleshoot various types of complex and routine electromechanical and solid state metering equipment sent in by Field staff for repair, microprocessor based remote interrogative metering systems, programmable controllers, supervisory control equipment, electronic recording ammeters, demand meters, and like equipment.
- Requires knowledge and experience using relational databases.
- Perform initial acceptance testing.
What you’ll have:
- Experience in an ISO environment would be a definite asset.
- Requires advanced knowledge in network technologies, communication protocols and applicable hardware and software products.
- Requires frequent intermittent periods of operating keyboard equipment and telecommunications equipment daily, and also requires frequent periods of standing while operating meter test console.
- This knowledge is considered to be normally acquired either through the successful completion of Grade XII in a Secondary, Commercial or Technical School plus a two year course of concentrated study in Electronics Engineering Technician program obtained in the Province of Ontario from a College of Applied Arts and Technology, Polytechnical Institute or Community College or by having the equivalent level of education.
- Requires practical experience with metering or related equipment in a field or lab environment.
- A period of up to six years is considered necessary to gain this experience.
- Requires experience related to troubleshooting, testing, repairing, modifying and repairing electromechanical and electronic meters, AMI network equipment, pulse metering devices, summators, telemetering and other such equipment.
- MEARIE Meter Technician Levels 1 to 3 training is an asset.
- Requires an advanced knowledge of electronics, electrical theory, mechanics, physics and related mathematics, including circuit design and analysis, digital techniques and communication systems in order to test, calibrate, repair, modify and understand electromechanical and solid state metering, relaying and control equipment.
- Requires occasional periods of moderate physical activities, such as walking, climbing, reaching, bending and carrying heavy relays and recorders to and from test stations, work areas and stockroom in order to perform tests, repairs, modifications, calibrations and servicing of various instruments and relays.