Job Title: Protection and Control Specialist

Department: Hydro Operations

Is this position unionized? Yes

Job Type: Permanent Full Time

Vacancy Type: New

City, Province: Kingston, Ontario

Open Positions: 1

Posting Date: September 30, 2026

Closing Date: October 21, 2026

As Ontario's only multi-utility provider, we offer a comprehensive range of services, including water, wastewater, natural gas, electricity, and telecommunications - all under one roof. This integrated approach empowers us to deliver innovative solutions, exceptional customer service, and operational efficiencies that set us apart in the industry.

With over 150 years of commitment to the Kingston community, we work every day to provide the protected, reliable utility services our customers rely on. Our efforts go beyond keeping the lights on and the water flowing. We’re driving progress through projects that create lasting, positive change. At the heart of everything we do is our vision to advance our unique utility model to benefit our customers and build better communities.

At Utilities Kingston, we believe that strong communities are built by strong teams. By joining us, you'll be part of a collaborative and dynamic environment where your skills and ideas will contribute to enhancing safety, driving reliability, and building a resilient future for our community.

Primary Duties

The Protection and Control Specialist is responsible for supporting the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of electrical power systems by assisting with the design, configuration, testing, commissioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting of protection and control systems. The role focuses on relays, control schemes, SCADA interfaces, metering,



communication systems, and related station and field equipment used to detect, isolate, and respond to faults and abnormal system conditions. Working closely with engineers, operations staff, contractors, and external stakeholders, the Specialist helps maintain system integrity, improve reliability, and support capital and maintenance programs.

Major Responsibilities:

- Support the design, review, implementation, and maintenance of protection and control schemes for distribution and/or transmission stations, feeders, transformers, breakers, capacitor banks, and related apparatus.
- Install, program, test, commission, verify, calibrate, maintain and troubleshoot protective relays, control panels, RTUs, meters, annunciation systems, and communication interfaces.
- Monitor system performance, analyze event data, investigate abnormal operations, protection trips, alarms, and equipment failures, and recommend or implement corrective actions.
- Assist with relay settings management, logic verification, database updates, and documentation control to ensure configuration accuracy and compliance with applicable standards.
- Perform functional testing of protection and control circuits, including wiring checks, point-to-point verification, interlocking, polarities, SCADA indication/control, and end-to-end testing where required.




- Provide technical support for station upgrades, capital projects, maintenance outages, and emergency restoration activities.
- Prepare and maintain technical documentation such as test records, commissioning reports, drawings markups, equipment histories, deficiency lists, and operating notes.
- Coordinate field work with operations, engineering, SCADA group, contractors, and vendors to ensure work is completed safely, on schedule, and to approved standards.
- Assist in evaluating equipment condition, identifying system risks, and recommending improvements to reliability, maintainability, and asset performance.
- Use specialized test equipment and software tools to analyze relay performance, communication status, event records, phasors, oscillography, and sequence of events data.
- Maintain calibration of all test equipment.
- Participate in planned and corrective maintenance programs for protection, control, metering, and station automation equipment.
- Support compliance with utility procedures, regulatory requirements, and industry practices related to electrical safety, protection systems, and system operations.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, standardization efforts, and lessons learned following system events or project closeout.

Education, Certification and Other Qualifications Required

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

- Sound understanding of electrical power system fundamentals, including fault current, grounding, coordination, switching, and equipment protection principles.
- Familiarity with relay technologies and protection applications for feeders, transformers, buses

📌 Protection and Control Specialist (Kingston)
🏢 Utilities Kingston
📍 Kingston