Geomatics Project Manager

Update: Amendment to Occupational Certification and number of positions

Important messages

Please apply online and complete the Screening Questionnaire pertaining to this advertised process. You MUST provide concrete and detailed examples to clearly demonstrate how you meet the education and experience requirements listed in the essential qualifications and/or asset qualifications section.

The screening board cannot make any assumptions about your education and/or experience. It is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current duties. Applications that do not clearly demonstrate that the candidate meets the screening criteria may not be given further consideration.

Work environment

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) helps the Government of Canada serve Canadians. With a strong focus on quality customer service, we provide innovative common services such as real estate and building management, purchasing, banking, pay, pensions and translation to other government departments, agencies and boards. By providing these centralized services to departments and agencies, we enable them to focus on what they do best: providing their programs and services to Canadians.

As an organization, PSPC strives to give all its employees opportunities to achieve organizational, professional and personal goals in a respectful and inclusive workplace, mobilized and supported by leadership at all levels. For more information on PSPC's People Management Philosophy and Our Commitments please see the following link: https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/apropos-about/pe-pc-eng.html

Did you know that Public Services and Procurement Canada was selected as one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers for 2017? We invite you to join an organization that is committed to ensuring an inclusive workplace and respect for all!

Intent of the process

The intent of this appointment process is to fill one immediate vacancy and to establish a fully assessed pool of qualified candidates that may be used to staff identical or similar positions of various tenures and various locations in PSPC.

Positions to be filled: 2

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Education:
Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in land survey theory and practice or another Geomatics related field.

Degree equivalency

Occupational Certification:
A member in good standing, or be eligible for membership as a Professional Ontario Land Surveyor in the Cadastral discipline or another discipline as recognized by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors

Experience:
Significant* experience in legal surveying at a professional** level.
Experience using Geomatics type software such as CADD and computational software.
Experience in delivering Geomatics products and services.
Experience in integrated control surveys.
Experience in Geomatics Project Management.
Experience in the supervision of Geomatics project management.
*Significant is defined as the depth of breadth of experience normally associated with performing legal surveying on a regular basis over approximately a 5 year period.
**Professional level is defined as work experience gained after having received a Land Survey accreditation.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

Occupational Certification:
An active member of the Association of Canada Lands Surveyors (ACLS).

Member of a Geomatics organization such as: Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG), The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) or similar organization for more than 2 years.

Experience:
Experience in participating in Geomatics Committees or as part of an executive body of a Geomatics organization or other organization.
Experience in Hydrography
Experience in Geographic Information Management

Operational Requirements:
Able and willing to travel on occasion
Holds a valid driver's license

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

Knowledge:
Knowledge of the professional land survey disciplines recognized by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS)
Knowledge of Provincial (Ontario) laws (i.e. legislation, case law) pertaining to legal surveying
Knowledge of modern geospatial technologies found within Geomatics
Knowledge of project management

Competencies:
Written Communication
Oral Communication
Values and Ethics
Thinking Things Through
Leadership
Excellence Through Results
Client Service (level 1)

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

A member in good standing as a Professional Ontario Land Surveyor in the Cadastral discipline or another discipline as recognized by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors
Able and willing to travel on occasion
Holds a valid driver's license

Other information

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

You must be prepared to provide the original, or a certified copy, of your educational credentials.

Our intention is to communicate with candidates via email. Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and to make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is the candidate's responsibility to provide any changes to their personal information to the contact indicated on this job advertisement.

Acknowledgment of receipt of applications will not be sent; only candidates successful in the screening process will be contacted.

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, it promotes employment equity and encourages candidates to indicate voluntarily on their application if they are a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group.

The Public Service of Canada is also committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, you should advise the Public Service Commission or the departmental official in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order.

Information on the preference to veterans

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