Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Canadian Coast Guard

Atlantic Region

 Selection Process Number: 24-DFO-ACCG-EA-617342

Closing date: March 4, 2026 -23:59, Pacific Time

 

Job Title: Steward - Marine
Classification: SC-STD-01
Tenure: Indeterminate, Term, or Casual positions
Locations: St. John's (Newfoundland and Labrador), Dartmouth (Nova Scotia)
Rate of pay: 
$64,179 per year
Who can apply: Persons residing in Canada and Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents residing    abroad.

 

About the Job: 

🐟 Your Canadian Coast Guard Adventure Awaits!

Embark on an extraordinary maritime adventure with the Canadian Coast Guard!  Join our elite team and embrace a career of courage, resilience, and purpose.  As a guardian of Canada's vast coastal waters, you'll experience the thrill of saving lives, protecting our marine ecosystems, and ensuring maritime safety. Unleash your skills and be part of a tight-knit community that fosters personal growth and professional development. Answer the call, and let the Canadian Coast Guard be your gateway to an exhilarating career on the high seas!

 

Get to know us:

Want a career where you help save lives?

The Canadian Coast Guard offers a sea of careers that few can emulate. We are an organization that offers its employees the chance to save lives, protect Canada’s pristine environment, and travel to areas so remote that your only neighbour is wildlife. In short, we are anything but ordinary!

As an organization, we oversee ships of all types; cutting-edge helicopters; and employ about 4,500 people, who work tirelessly to protect and secure 243,000 kilometers of Canada’s vast and rugged coastline.

The Canadian Coast Guard has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People in 2023!
Apply now so you don’t miss the boat!

Who you are:

• You possess a valid Marine Emergency Duties certificate in STCW Basic Safety
• You’re dependable, honest, and can be counted on
• You've got great interpersonal skills and love working with a team
• You enjoy working with a commitment to safety, security and service
• You're able to lift up to 30lbs and work while standing or walking for prolonged periods
• You have an interest in working at sea

 

What you’ll be doing as key activities:

 

• Preparing dining room, mess rooms, and pantries for food service, serving meals, and performing after meal clean-up.
• Cleaning dining room, mess rooms, and pantries and all associated equipment within.
• Performing hotel services and cleaning accommodation and common areas including laundry services in a timely manner.
• Participating in shipboard emergency and safety drills, firefighting, abandoning ship, and other operations such as search and rescue.
• Assisting in the ship's storing operations.
• Assisting in the preparation of meals, if required.
• Providing all support necessary to ensure Canadian Coast Guard meets its mandate.

 

Working with us:

👋 The intent of this selection process is to create an inventory of qualified candidates to be used to staff casual, term and indeterminate opportunities within the Canadian Coast Guard.

 

Our offer to you:

👍 Benefits of working at the Canadian Coast Guard include:

• Company paid training - great opportunities for advancement.
• Unionized position with the Public Service Alliance Canada.
• Our crew enjoy regular schedules with minimal disruptions - you can plan your time at home.
• We sail safe - your safety is our top priority.
• Public Service Pension: Prospective members of the public service pension plan - Canada.ca
• Public Service Health Care plan:  Public Service Health Care Plan | Maximum Eligible Expenses (pshcp.ca)
• Public Service Dental Plan:  Welcome Public Service Dental Care Plan! (canadalife.com)
• Leave provisions such as vacation leave, sick leave, bereavement, personal and more as outlined in the collective agreement

 

Essential Qualifications

English essential

Information on language requirements

 

🎓 Certification

■ Valid Marine Emergency Duties certificate in STCW Basic Safety

 

📌 Competencies

■ Working Effectively with Others

■ Dependability

■ Communication Skills

 

Asset Qualifications 

📌 Experience

■   Experience in Hospitality/Hotel Services or providing professional housekeeping or janitorial services or services with the food industry or experience as a steward on an ocean going vessel

■   Experience working as a cook

■  Experience on seagoing vessels

■  Experience as a Steward on a Coast Guard vessel

■  Experience in taking inventories and ordering supplies

 

🎓 Successful training in one or more of the following areas:

■ Valid Marine Emergency Duty (MED) Certificate in Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boats other than Fast Rescue Boats - (required for periods of employment in excess of 6 months)

■ Valid Food Safety Training

■ Professional Cook’s Certificate

■ Valid Marine Basic First Aid Certificate or Higher

 

✅Conditions of Employment

■ Maintain valid Reliability Security Clearance.

■ Maintain valid Health Canada Medical for seagoing personnel.

■ Maintain a valid Certificate of Competency.

■ Requirement to go to sea for prolonged periods of time (including Arctic Waters) and in adverse weather conditions.

■Requirement to wear and maintain a uniform, safety footwear, and personal protective equipment to Canadian Coast Guard standards.

■ Willingness and ability to work overtime as required.

■ Willingness to be deployed.

■ Compliance with the Canadian Coast Guard Safety Management System and Standards.

■  Adherence to the Canadian Coast Guard Respiratory Protection Program.

■ For vessels assigned primarily to Search and Rescue operations, employees must be within 30 minutes response time to the vessel during assigned work period.

■ Valid Canadian Passport (for identified positions). For Canadian Permanent Residents: valid Permanent Resident card

■ Must be willing and able to travel by air, land or by sea.

 

🔔Organizational Need

Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard are committed to establishing and maintaining a workforce representative of the population it serves. In order to achieve this representative workforce, preference may be given to candidates who, at the time of application, indicate that they are belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups (self-declaration): Indigenous peoples, Women, Visible Minorities and Persons with Disabilities.

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

 

Self-declaring. Because you count.

By completing the Employment Equity section in your application, you help create a Public Service that is diverse, inclusive and representative of identities, cultures, perspectives and experiences that make up Canada.

 

📣 Important Messages

We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you are a person with a disability (e.g. a learning difficulty or a visual or auditory impairment) and require accommodation during any phase of the evaluation process (including the submission of your application), please notify the person listed in the ‘Contact Information’ section below to request an accommodation measure. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

Assessment accommodation

Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard are stronger and most effective when we reflect the diversity of the Canadian population we serve. In support of achieving a diversified workforce, first consideration may be given to candidates self-declaring as belonging to one of the following employment equity groups: Indigenous Peoples, Visible Minorities, Persons with Disabilities, and Women. As part of your application to this selection process, we invite you to self-declare which employment equity group(s) you belong to. To learn more, visit our website on Self-declaring for Government of Canada jobs.

 

Connect with us

 

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

    

Canadian Coast Guard                                            

   

 

 

📧Contact information:

Candice Reath

Candice.Reath@dfo-mpo.gc.ca