Technical Specialist – Energy & Environmental – Ottawa

Equans is looking for a Technical Specialist – Energy & environmental in Ottawa!

What Equans offers you

• Group insurance from your first day of work;
• A group pension plan;
• An annual bonus program;
• Thirteen (13) statutory holidays;
• Balance between work and personal life;
• Professional and personal development in a company experiencing strong growth;
• A positive working environment characterized by competence, responsibility and innovation;
• Competitive terms of employment and excellent benefit schemes;
• A diverse workplace regarding gender, age and cultural background. We believe in the importance of diversity and inclusion.

The Equans group is a world leader in the energy and services industry. The Group operates in 20 countries, with 90,000 employees working on 5 continents. Equans is a Bouygues group company.

Equans designs, installs, and delivers customized solutions to improve its customers’ equipment, systems and technical processes and optimize their use in the context of their energy, industrial and digital transitions. Equans is a Bouygues group company.

Active in Canada and the United States for more than 30 years, Equans Services is the partner of businesses, industries and institutions that want to move towards more connected buildings, manage their facilities efficiently and reduce their carbon footprint.

We design, implement, and maintain custom solutions to improve our customers’ facilities, systems, and infrastructures.

Our core offerings are focused on the following areas:

• Integrated Asset and facilities management;
• Operation and maintenance of buildings and equipment (including district heating and cooling);
• Energy efficiency solutions and execution of decarbonization roadmaps;
• Building automation and systems;
• Solutions for transportation and mobility.

To learn more, visit www.equansservices.com/en

Summary

The Technical Specialist is support and contributor for various technical solutions relating to the operations and maintenance, detailed design, construction, commissioning, and project closeout process related to a Low Temperature Hot Water and Chilled Water-Cooling networks associated to the Energy Transfer Station located in the User Buildings. The Technical Specialist will take the lead for several energy management functions and environmental compliance. 

The technical specialist has proven experience in a support position in terms of production and distribution (district) energy systems that utilize natural gas & electricity as energy outputs. The selected candidate will need to develop and implement practices and procedures to reduce energy consumption and/or improve efficiency within generation and network infrastructures. As well, technical specialist will support the operation team to manage all environmental compliance around operation the DES systems within in province of Ontario and Quebec.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and ensure the overall Energy and GHG performances are tracking to targets.
• Gather and analyze production equipment efficiency information including, utility metering data, plant energy data, weather data including customer load profiles, chillers, heat exchangers, boilers, pumping performance and efficiency and network system information.
• Conduct plant audits to assess energy performance and provide written reports of findings and recommend steps to investigate potential opportunities.
• Follow up the energy management dashboard and provide recommendations to the operators to ensure the level of performance is targeted.
• Participate to meetings with the customer and prepare the report to be submitted.
• Execute all activities to ensure savings are realized including ongoing energy performance monitoring.
• Lead or participate to the realization of the project & the ensuing energy performance monitoring.
• Support the design and commissioning phase regarding energy data and performance of the equipment.
• Record pre and post project conditions including commissioning and acceptance testing.
• Support the Fuel and Electricity Procurement and Management Process that guides the Energy Mix, the Performance, and the Dispatch.
• Lead all environmental compliance requirement for the existing and new assets.
• Provide all environmental reporting to the AHJ for the relevant departments.
• Support in month end reporting for the project related requirements.

Requirements 

• Authorized to work in Canada;
• Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) or Sr. Technologist in a related field;
• Minimum of five (5) years experience with production and distribution loop in energy systems having different locations;
• Previous experience in modifying a dispatch strategy to optimize performance of the multi-source system to deliver the service in a more cost-effective, efficient or environmental sustainable manner;
• Proficiency utilizing MS Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, AutoCAD;
• Excellent verbal, written, and computer communication and technical presentation skills;
• Ability to analyze situations, identify existing or potential problems and recommend solutions;
• Data analytics and modeling energy profile;
• Systemic approach;
• Able to work in a Team environment and independently;
• Experience in a building operations or controls function will be considered an asset.

Equal employment opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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