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Apply By: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 11:59 pm EST

Human Resources Consultant

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Job ID:

236581

Posting status:

Open

Organization:

Ontario Clean Water Agency

Division:

Human Resources

City:

Mississauga

Position(s) language:

English

Job term:

1 Permanent

Job code:

I0802A - Human Resources41

Salary:

$76,231.00 - $109,842.00 Per year

The Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) believes in Our Communities, Our Environment and Our People. As a trusted partner to municipalities, First Nations communities, businesses, governments and institutions across Ontario, we provide our clients with total solutions in water and wastewater. We are dedicated to working closely with our clients to help them build healthy sustainable communities and organizations and provide safe and reliable drinking water to thousands of Ontarians each day.



Are you an experienced Human Resources professional? Do you enjoy a challenging, engaging and collaborative work environment? If so, this may be the role for you.

About the job

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As a partner to your client managers, you will provide coaching, advice and services on a range of human resources issues and programs including workforce planning, recruitment, disability management/accommodation, performance management, employee relations, organizational design, change management and communications, learning and development. You will promote and support strategies to strengthen a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, alongside health and safety.



You will develop strategic partnerships with your clients to assist them in achieving their business goals through acquiring an understanding of their current and future business requirements and activities.



You will foster relationships with your employee relations counterparts to encourage open dialogue and facilitate early resolution to arising workplace concerns.

What you bring to the team

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Knowledge

Knowledge of the theories, principles and practices of human resources management, and ability to interpret and apply HR policy/directives, collective agreements and various HR related legislation/regulation when providing expert and strategic advice to management. Knowledge and expertise in a diverse range of specialized human resources management functions and programs to provide advice and guidance Knowledge and experience with a HR information system (e.g. Workday) Knowledge and understanding of organization's goals, mandate and directions to ensure human resources advice, services and support meet the needs of the organization.
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Analytical Thinking, Planning and Coordination

Identifies, analyzes and resolves a range of difficult, confidential, and sensitive issues, including measures to minimize risks and impacts; interpret legislation, directives, policies and collective agreements; and identifies the impact on human resources initiatives on client operations. Assists client managers in the resolution of contentious employee relations issues avoiding potential grievances and providing recommendations to the employer's position on issues as well as developing innovative approaches to resolve cases. Case management, planning and organizational skills to respond to numerous complex challenges and demands from client management, manage and prioritize workload, meet conflicting deadlines, and deal with frequent interruptions, urgent matters and constantly changing priorities.
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Interpersonal/Communication

Communicates and provides proactive customer service and uses relationship management skills to provide client management with well-considered assessments of their needs, issues, options, and opportunities. Develops and sustains effective working relationships with client managers, executives, employees, union representatives, and colleagues. Facilitates the resolution of grievances and disputes with bargaining agents, influencing others by building support and commitment to adopt a specific course of action. Consultation, presentation, interpersonal, and oral communication skills to provide advice and information, express complex issues clearly and convincingly, deliver presentations and information sessions, and communicate effectively in stressful and emotional management-employee situations. Develops sensitive and complex HR correspondence, union disclosures, disciplinary letters, termination letters, presentation materials, issue notes, position descriptions, and executive responses.
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Ontario Clean Water Agency is an inclusive employer.

We will accommodate your needs under the Ontario Human Rights Code

The Ontario Clean Water Agency is an agency of the Province of Ontario, reporting to the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. In 2023, OCWA staff treat water and wastewater, and provide other technical services for 318 clients in the province including 169 municipalities, 16 First Nations, 108 commercial and industrial clients and 25 government and institutional clients. Municipal clients range in size from populations as large as 1.5 million in the Region of Peel to as small as 2,400 in Moose Factory. This broad scope of experience ensures OCWA has the expertise to solve any issues that may arise, in any size or type of treatment process in the province. Our Agency has grown its municipal client base every year over the past 30 years is proof of this value. We continue to focus on our people and strategies to attract and retain competent staff.

Note: Thank you for your interest, we will contact you only if you are selected for further screening or an interview.

How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility

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We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.



Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.



Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:

diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives accessibility Anti-Racism Policy

What we offer

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Flexible learning and development opportunities. Opportunities for career advancement and specialization with the largest provider of water and wastewater services in Ontario. Work with the partner of choice for more communities than any other water and wastewater service organization in Ontario for over 30 years. Work with an organization committed to innovation and advanced technology. A defined benefit pension plan; Comprehensive Health Plan; Life and Disability Insurance. Maternity and parental leave top-up benefits including for adoptive parents.

Additional information:

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Apply by:

Tuesday, November 25, 2025 11:59 pm EST

Position details:

1 English Permanent, 2085, Hurontario St, Mississauga, Central Region

Compensation group:

Management Compensation Plan

Work hours:

Schedule 6

Category:

Human Resources

Posted on:

Monday, November 10, 2025

Note:

T-AQ-236581/25

How to apply:

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You must submit your application using only one of the methods identified below.

Your cover letter and resume combined should not exceed five (5) pages. For tips and tools on how to write a concise cover letter and resume, review the Writing a Cover Letter and Resume: Tips, Tools and Resources.

Customize your cover letter and resume to the qualifications listed on the job ad. Using concrete examples, you must show how you demonstrated the requirements for this job. We rely on the information you provide to us.

Be sure to quote the Job ID number for this position.

OPS employees are required to quote their WIN EMPLOYEE ID number when applying.

Send application to:

with covering letter (PDF format preferred) saved as 236581 - First Last Name to:

Hiring Manager: Nicholas Sapp

Attention: Human Resources

nsapp@ocwa.com

Language requirements and assessment:

All external Ontario Public Service (OPS) job ads are posted in English and French. Check the "position(s) language" section at the top of each job ad for the language requirements. For all roles, candidates are assessed in English, the business language of the OPS. If the position is bilingual (English/French), you'll also need to pass a French-language proficiency test.

Exigences en matiere de langue et evaluation:

Toutes les offres d'emploi externes de la fonction publique de l'Ontario (FPO) sont affichees en francais et en anglais. Consultez la section Langue du ou des postes en haut de chaque offre d'emploi pour connaitre les exigences linguistiques. Pour tous les postes, les candidats sont evalues en anglais, la langue d'affaires de la FPO. Si le poste est bilingue (anglais/francais), vous devrez egalement passer un test de competences linguistiques en francais.





All external applicants (including former employees of the Ontario Public Service) applying to a competition in a ministry or Commission public body must disclose (either in the cover letter or resume) previous employment with the Ontario Public Service. Disclosure must include positions held, dates of employment and any active restrictions as applicable from being rehired by the Ontario Public Service. Active restrictions can include time and/or ministry-specific restrictions currently in force, and may preclude a former employee from being offered a position with the Ontario Public Service for a specific time period (e.g. one year), or from being offered a position with a specific ministry (either for a pre-determined time period or indefinitely). The circumstances around an employee's exit will be considered prior to an offer of employment.

Information collection notice

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We are collecting your personal information to assess how well you meet the qualifications for employment with the Ontario Public Service, and for related recruitment purposes. The collection of personal information is necessary to the proper administration of OPS Careers, which is an authorized common service in accordance with s. 6 of the Ministry of Government Services Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. M.25.



Please do not include any more personal information than is needed for your application (for example, do not include your photograph or social insurance number).



If you have any questions about how your information is collected, used, shared or saved, please contact us.

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