Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Canadian Coast Guard

Atlantic Region

 Selection Process Number: 24-DFO-ACCG-EA-629685

Closing date: September 27, 2024 - 23:59, Pacific Time

 

Job Title: Small Vessels Officer
Classification: GT-05
Tenure: Indeterminate, Term, or Casual positions
Locations: St. John's (Newfoundland and Labrador), Dartmouth (Nova Scotia)
Rate of pay: 
$84,174 to $95,704 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!

🚢 A Day in the Life of a Small Vessel Officer:

Are you a strong leader that can work well under pressure?  The Small Vessel Officer position requires strong leadership skills and ability to work under pressure with minimum guidance while supporting our Small Vessel Commanding Officers and crew in a Supervisor capacity.  The key activities are:

• Monitoring and maintaining Small Fleet assets.
• Communicating with our Canadian Coast Guard Regional Operations Center to coordinate movements of assets and vessels.
• Supporting our Small Vessel Fleet Commanding Officers with financial guidance, equipment, and administrative documents.
• Traveling throughout the Atlantic provinces to carry out site visits and inspections at our remote vessel stations locations.
• Collaborating and establishing positive relationships with our Canadian Coast Guard Vessel Maintenance Managers for successful vessel refits.
  

Take the lead and apply!

 

Working with us:

👋 The intent of this process is to fill one (1) position with the Canadian Coast Guard in Dartmouth, NS. 

As a result of this process, a pool of candidates may be established and may be used to staff similar positions within the Canadian Coast Guard with various employment tenures, language profiles, security requirements and conditions of employment.

Positions to be filled: 1

 

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.
• 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

 

🎓 Education and Certifications

■ Successful completion of secondary school (high school) according to provincial or territorial standards or general equivalency (GED)

■ Valid Transport Canada Marine Certificate of Competency

 

📌 Experience

■ Experience in providing recommendations to Management on operational matters

■ Experience in human resource management in any of the following areas: experience in staffing processes, employee performance evaluations, leave planning or approval for a work unit, planning and establishing work objectives, work scheduling or work assignments

■ Experience in the support of financial resources

 

📌 Key Leadership Competencies

■ Uphold Integrity and Respect

■ Mobilize People

■ Collaborate with Partners and Stakeholders

■ Create Vision and Strategy

■ Promote Change and Innovation

■ Achieve Results

 

📌 Abilities

■ Ability to work with minimal supervision

■ Ability to communicate effectively orally

■ Ability to communicate effectively in writing - Please note that written communication will be assessed throughout the entirety of the application and written exam. 

■ Ability to work under pressure to prioritize and organize

 

 

Asset Qualifications 

📌 Experience

■  Experience interpreting and applying policies, directives, acts, regulations, or collective agreements

■  Experience in maritime operations or the delivery of DFO/CCG programs

■  Experience using financial software such as SAP, Maximo and/or Maintelligence 

■  Experience working onboard a Canadian Coast Guard ship 

■  Experience in a shore position relating to marine management or marine training

■  Experience in managing assets such as vehicles and/or small craft

 

✅Operational Requirements

■  Report to an office environment 

■  May be required to work in adverse conditions such as those found in the marine environment

■  Work overtime on short notice

■  Work on a variety of Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) assets including, small boats or large vessels, or helicopter

 

✅Conditions of Employment

■ Maintain valid Secret Security Clearance

■ Maintain a valid driver's license

■Requirement to wear and maintain a uniform as per CCG standards, inclusive of CSA approved safety footwear, and maintain job related personal protective equipment

 

🔔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