Electrotechnician

Department mission

To ensure the longevity and proper functioning of all public facilities, equipment, and buildings, in order to support sustainable development and improve citizens’ quality of life.

Responsibilities and goals associated with the position

Work involving the installation, verification, preparation, and calibration of electrical, electronic, or other control and measurement devices used on City equipment. The position involves driving a motor vehicle such as a pickup truck or van.

Examples of tasks:

• Maintains, checks, or modifies control, measurement, and remote transmission devices for various high-voltage variables, such as flow rates, pressure, elevation, temperature, and others; detects any defects; repairs and calibrates these devices;
• Repairs and adjusts auxiliary installations for emergency generators;
• Submits generators and defrosters to efficiency and performance tests;
• Installs, adjusts, maintains, repairs, modifies, or checks programmable logic controllers on generators, ventilation systems, variable controls, and tools, and detects malfunctions; checks the programming of the controllers.
• Draws, when required, schematic diagrams of the electrical or electronic systems or devices that he repairs, modifies, or installs;
• Installs, repairs, adjusts, maintains, modifies, and checks switches, fuses, and transformers used to control generator tools and City equipment instrumentation;
• Regularly checks the operation of motors and electronic or magnetic controls of device control systems connected to instrumentation;
• Assembles special types of electronic circuits for control, measurement, or alarm purposes.
• Maintains, repairs, and calibrates various electronic instruments and devices commonly found in a city;
• Analyses the proper functioning of various control systems using the plant operation sheet and makes any necessary repairs and modifications.
• Installs and uses various computer software programs necessary for the operation of electronic equipment and the resolution of technical problems.