Design Technician

Design Technician - Dams

The City of Kelowna currently has a Design Technician opportunity available with our Utilities Planning team. With your Civil Engineering Diploma, related experience, and relevant professional skills you will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating the City’s inventory of dams, stormwater ponds, and dikes, including regulatory requests, inspections, documentation, provincial licensing, communications, design coordination, and project management consistent with City of Kelowna infrastructure projects. Projects consist of additions/upgrades to dams, ponds, and dike systems, water diversions, drainage structures, embankments and other related works. This position is liaising with consultants and various City departments to ensure seamless communication and project coordination.

Qualifications

• Civil Engineering Technology Diploma 
• Experience in civil municipal design and asset management
• BC Driver’s License - Class 5
• Computer literacy
• Project Management

Help create Kelowna as a City of the Future . Our diverse and dynamic team strives to innovate to make things better, work as one team, serve proudly and lead responsibly. Live, work and play in one of Canada’s fastest growing cities. Kelowna boasts miles of lake access, public areas and outdoor recreation opportunities, a vibrant downtown and cultural scene, healthy and connected neighbourhoods, and a world-renowned College and University. You’re only a quick link to the world via the Kelowna International Airport.  

Grow your career in an organization that supports employee work-life balance and career and professional development. This CUPE bargaining unit position with a rate starting at $49.66 per hour (based on a 40-hour work week) plus employer-paid comprehensive benefits, an earned day off program, paid vacation and one of Canada’s top pension plans. 

The City of Kelowna is committed to being an organization that values and reflects its community’s diverse population, and to fostering an equitable, inclusive and progressive work environment where everyone can be their authentic self and feels a sense of belonging.

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Applications must be received by end of day August 5, 2026.

Applicants not contacted within three weeks of the closing date are thanked for their interest