Engineering Technician V

The District of Saanich is the largest municipality in beautiful Greater Victoria, blending both the urban and rural environment and home to approximately 124,000 citizens. Employing more than 1,500 members, our greatest asset is a highly performing workforce. We provide a collaborative, dynamic and progressive work environment that consistently attracts top-quality people, enables them to perform at their best and improve their skills. Our competitive wages, excellent benefits package, generous pension plan, flexible work program, supporting and inclusive work environment and progressive initiatives make the District of Saanich a highly desirable place to invest your talent. The Water Resources Division of Saanich Engineering provides professional services for the management of the municipal sanitary sewer, potable water and storm drainage systems. We are recruiting up to two experienced civil engineering technologists (Level V) to joinour fast-paced and diverse team. The ideal candidates are either experienced technologists or engineers-in-training. The successful candidate will work in the Infrastructure Planning & Analysis Section; a technical team that supports the selection of capital projects, technical and supporting the capital budget process. The work of the Engineering Technician V involves performing civil engineering work at a semi-professional level. Work may include resolving challenging issues from the field; liaising with the public; reviewing development drawings; mentoring junior staff and participating in intra or interdepartmental initiatives as a representative for the team. The role works under the guidance of professional engineers in the team; is afforded an appropriate level of independence in completing work assignments and an extraordinary variation in work tasks that will expand your functional knowledge of municipal infrastructure management in local government setting. The successful candidates will possess a sound technical foundation, strong project management skills, are well organized, have strong communication skills and an appetite for learning.