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:
- Work with technicians to coordinate work programs and schedules of different work groups establishing a logical work sequence and appropriate resource allocation.
- Prepare status reports, as required, such as completed or outstanding work packages, using computerized and manual systems. Operation of a Forklift is a requirement
- May require occasional travel with overnight stays.
- Ensure outages are secured for work packages to meet the schedule requirements.
- Process and maintain records on work requests and assign priorities based on established criteria, as directed.
- Perform assessments and estimates.
- Identify and assemble appropriate documents necessary for a work package including work order information, procedures, switching orders, and other pertinent UWPC documents.
- Identify scheduling problems, such as under–use of resources and inform Scheduler. Make recommendations as required, to change and improve the planning process.
- Submit proposed plan, schedule or work program for supervisory review and approval. Interface with project management to ensure materials are ordered on schedule.
- Compare plans, schedules and work programs developed for past similar circumstances and check to substantiate logic of proposed plan, schedule or work program.
- Analyze and present data on group accomplishments and work load forecasts.
- Prepare and design plans, schedules and work programs for various work groups in accordance with scheduling processes and work methods and procedures.
- Review status of work request. Update the status of scheduled work that has been completed in a timely manner.
- Discuss special requirements with originator of the work request.
- Plan and schedule work programs and work orders for crews utilizing the current set of planning and scheduling tools including, scheduling software, Network Outage Management System, Network Management System and station drawings.
- Job involves approximately 80% office work and 20% field work in a TS environment.. Perform other duties as required
What you’ll have:
- Should be familiar with the interrelationship with other sections within the department and supporting departments.
- Requires experience in estimating, planning, organizing, scheduling of work to assist in the preparation of plans and work programs, analysis and presentation of data on group accomplishments and work load forecasts.
- Requires knowledge of electronics, electrical theory, mechanics, instrumentation, heat and thermodynamics associated with rates and operating techniques, materials and equipment related to technical and planning work programs.
- Requires experience in work sequences to develop logical work packages.
- Experience with Indus Passport work management system and Primavera P3 is a definite asset.
- A period of eight years is considered necessary to gain this experience.
- Requires experience within Operating, Electrical Maintenance, P&C and Mechanical Maintenance to be familiar with technical work requirements in the field.
- Requires experience in a trade setting to understand department systems, operating work methods, maintenance procedures and to gain an appreciation of materials and equipment characteristics and to comprehend technical and planning work programs.
- Requires knowledge of computer technology in order to operate work and project management systems. This knowledge is considered to be normally acquired in an equivalent to a Grade XII education in a secondary school plus an Electrical Engineering Technician program or by having the equivalent level of education.
- Requires experience to understand the practical aspects of design, procurement (such as drawings, materials, equipment), deployment of working forces, schedule durations, logic and practices.
- Requires experience in the operation of computerized work management systems to prepare plans and schedules.
- Requires knowledge of mathematics necessary to perform calculations.