Canadian Coast Guard (an Agency of Fisheries and Oceans Canada) – Fleet

Atlantic Region

 Selection Process Number: 24-DFO-ACCG-EA-621066 

Closing date: April 5, 2026 -23:59, Pacific Time

 

Job Title: Deckhand/Leading Deckhand/Leading Deckhand-Lifeboat - Marine
Classification: SC-DED-02 and SC-DED-03
Tenure: Casual, Specified Period, Indeterminate
Locations: Various Locations in Atlantic Canada
Rates of pay: $67,068 to $69,240 anually 
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 neighbor 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 Transport Canada STCW endorsed Bridge Watch Rating certificate
• You possess valid Marine Emergency Duties certificates in both STCW Basic Safety [A1 & B2] and also in Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boats other than Fast Rescue Boats [B1], OR a valid certificate for MED Refresher - Marine Basic Safety and Proficiency in Survival Craft (STCW BS and PSC)
• 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

 

What you’ll be doing as key activities:

 

• Maintaining deck equipment and machinery, shipboard cleanliness and husbandry, performing seamanship duties, carpentry work, and simple repairs to engines.
• Standing a watch at sea and in port, on the bridge as a lookout, or at the forecastle as a bow lookout.
• Assisting in the lifting, placing, and the maintenance of floating and fixed aids to navigation, such as cleaning, painting, general site upkeep and repairs, carpentry, concrete, and other construction work.
• Assisting in Search and Rescue, Environmental Response, Icebreaking, Scientific, Hydrographic, and Fisheries operations.
• Assisting in the launching, recovery, and manning of small boats in support of the ship's assigned tasks.
• Assisting in loading, stowing, securing, and discharging of cargo and supplies, and in delivering equipment and stores ashore.
• Participating in shipboard safety drills fire, ship abandonment, damage control, recovery of persons overboard, and assisting in the testing of safety equipment and systems.
• Providing all support necessary to ensure CCG meets its mandate.

 

Working with us:

👋 The intent of this selection process is to create a pool of qualified candidates and may be used to appoint individuals to indeterminate, term, casual, or acting positions.

 

Our offer to you:

Benefits of working at the Canadian Coast Guard include:

• Company paid training - great opportunities for advancement.
• Unionized position with the

  Canadian Merchant Service Guild.

• 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

Various language requirements

• English Essential
• Bilingual Imperative:
• (BBB/BBB); (--B/--B)

Information on language requirements

 

🎓 Certification

■ Valid Marine Emergency Duties certificates STCW Basic Safety

AND

■ Valid Marine Emergency Duties Certificant in Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boats other than Fast Rescue Boats

OR

■ Valid MED Refresher Certificate in STCW Basic Safety and Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boats other than Fast Rescue Boats (STCW BS and PSC)


■ Valid Transport Canada STCW endorsed Bridge Watch Rating Certificate.

 

📌 Competencies

■ Communication Skills

■ Working Effectively with Others

■ Dependability

 

Asset Qualifications 

🎓 Certification

■ Valid Transport Canada STCW endorsed Marine Navigation Certificate of Competency or higher

■ Valid Transport Canada Fishing Master Certificate of Competency

■ Valid Marine Advanced First Aid certificate

■ Valid Food Safety Training

■ Successful completion of Canadian Coast Guard training in one or more of the following areas:

• Small Craft Training
• RHIOT
• Rescue Specialist
• Marine Oil Spill Response and Recovery (MOSRR)

📌 Experience

■  Experience as a deckhand onboard a fishing vessel

■  Experience as a Leading Deckhand/Lifeboatman on a Coast Guard vessel in Small Vessel Fleet in the following programs:

• Search and Rescue 
• Conservation and Protection
• Science

■ Experience as a Deckhand or Leading Deckhand on a Coast Guard Large Vessel Fleet

■ Experience in science operations on a seagoing vessel

■ Experience in buoy/anchor tending

 

✅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, and personal protective equipment to Canadian Coast Guard standards.

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

■ Adherence to the Canadian Coast Guard Respiratory Protection Program.

■ Willingness and ability to work overtime as required.

■ Willingness to be deployed.

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

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

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

 

 

🔔Organizational Need

At Fisheries and Oceans Canada, diversity is our strength. In support of achieving a diverse workforce, selection may be limited to candidates who self-declare as a member of one of more of the following Employment Equity groups. If you are a woman, an Indigenous person, a person with a disability or a visible minority, let us know by completing the Employment Equity (EE) section in your application.

 

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, Atlantic Region Project Coordinator - Fleet

Candice.Reath@dfo-mpo.gc.ca