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Engine Room Assistant/Oiler - Regional Process


Selection Process Number: 24-DFO-ACCG-EA-630950

Oiler/Engine Room Assistant

Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Canadian Coast Guard Atlantic Region

Fleet
St. John's, NL and Dartmouth, NS
SC-ERD-03
$67,716 per year
Tenure:  Casual, Specified Period (Term), Indeterminate
DEADLINE TO APPLY: July 18, 2026 - 23:59 Pacific Time

Who Can Apply: Persons residing in Canada, and Canadian citizens and Permanent residents abroad.

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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 Transport Canada STCW endorsed Engine Room Rating or Engine Room Assistant certificate.
  • You possess valid Marine Emergency Duties certificates in both STCW Basic Safety and also in Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boats other than Fast Rescue Boats.
  • You’re dependable, honest, and can be counted on.
  • You've got great interpersonal skills and love working with a team.
  • You're able to lift up to 30lbs and work while standing or walking for prolonged periods.
  • You have an interest in working with machinery.

 

What you’ll be doing as key activities

  • Cleaning and caring for equipment, machinery, and machinery spaces.
  • Assisting in operating, maintaining, and repairing ship machinery and equipment.
  • Performing inspection rounds of the machinery space and tanks.
  • Maintaining an engine room watch.
  • Assisting in maintaining a log of engine room activities.
  • Participating in the loading, stowage, and inventory control of spare parts and supplies.
  • Participating in fueling, lube oil transfer, and waste oil products handling.
  • Conducting rigging in support of engine room lifting activities.
  • Participating in the production, transfer, testing, and treatment of potable water.
  • Carrying out fabrication of metal parts and tools.
  • Participating in damage control, firefighting, environmental response, and other drills, exercises and operations.
  • Providing all support necessary to ensure CCG meets its mandate.

 

Intent of the process

👋This selection process is not intended to staff a specific position, but rather to establish a qualified inventory of candidates that will be used to fill future vacancies. As positions become available, we will contact qualified candidates for employment opportunities.

A pool of qualified candidates will be established and may be used to appoint individuals to indeterminate, term, or acting positions.

 

Number of vacancies: Number to be determined

 

Our offer to you

👍 Benefits of working at the Canadian Coast Guard include:

 

Essential Qualifications
Essential qualifications must be met in order to be considered for an appointment.

 

Language Requirements

  • English Essential  

 

🎓Occupational Certification

  • Valid Marine Emergency Duties certificates STCW Basic Safety AND Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boats other than Fast Rescue Boats 
    AND
  • Valid Transport Canada STCW 95 endorsed Engine Room Rating or Engine Room Assistant Certificate.

 

📌Competencies

  • Working Effectively with Others
  • Dependability

 

📌Abilities

  • Ability to communicate effectively in Writing
  • Ability to communicate effectively Orally

 

Asset Qualifications
Qualifications that are not essential to perform the work, but that would benefit the organization or enhance the work to be performed currently or in the future. Depending on the position being staffed, any other requirements may also be deemed as essential or asset requirements for the position.

 

🎓Occupational Certification

  • Valid Transport Canada STCW endorsed Marine Engineering Certificate of Competency.
  • Valid Marine Basic first aid certificate or higher
  • Valid Rescue Specialist Training
  • Marine Oil Spill Response and Recovery (MOSRR) training

 

📌Experience

  • Experience as an Oiler/Engineer on a Coast Guard vessel

 

✅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. 

Information on employment equity 

 

📣Important messages

We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please use the Contact information below to request specialized accommodation. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

Assessment accommodation

All information obtained throughout the selection process, from the time of application to the conclusion of the process, may be considered in the assessment of any essential or asset qualifications, including the ability to communicate in writing and orally.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language(s) of their choice.

Candidates who are hired must be willing and able to travel from their place of residence to designated vessel’s home port at own expense. 

You must meet all essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position. Other qualifications may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed. Some essential and other qualifications will be assessed through your application. It is your responsibility to provide appropriate examples that illustrate how you meet each qualification. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.

 

→ If you have been qualified under process #18-DFO-ACCG-EA-CCG-221106 or 21-DFO-ACCG-EA-CCG-318130, please do not reapply unless you are updating your previous application ←

 

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

For questions or accommodation requests please contact: Joni Carroll (Milligan) at Joni.Milligan@dfo-mpo.gc.ca. 

 

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

 

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

 

Creating an account

Follow the simple steps on the next page to create an account - it's that easy!

You will then be directed to our candidate portal, where you will be able to build your personal profile. Your progress is indicated at the top of each page. Please ensure you go through each section so that your profile is complete.

 

Instructions

The application should take approximately 30-60 minutes to complete. Before you click “Next" ensure you have the required documentation available to upload (PDF, Word Documents, JPG Pictures etc.):

Your résumé

If at any time during this application you cannot continue, simply exit the screen. The next time you click on the link you will be taken to where you left off.  Should you run into technical difficulties, you will see a send us a message button at the bottom of this page where you can ask us for help.

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