Assistant Superintendent

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 and 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: http://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

This process will be used to staff a term position and a pool may be created to staff similar or identical positions with various tenures within PSPC such as indeterminate, specified period, acting, and assignment/secondment)

Positions to be filled: 1

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:
• Successful completion of secondary school or an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

Experience:
• Experience maintaining grounds.
• Experience in a supervisory role.

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

Knowledge:
Watershed knowledge

Other Assets:
• Boat Safety License
• Safety training
• WHMIS
• Fall arrest training

Operational Requirement:
• Driver’s license, or the mobility usually associated with a driver’s license
• Willingness and ability to perform desk/computer work for approximately 40% of the working day

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

Knowledge:
• Knowledge of the general operation and maintenance of land OR marine based mobile or stationary equipment (such as lawn tractors, saws, etc).
• Knowledge of occupational safe working practices.

Personal Suitability:
• Detail-orientation
• Client Service – Level 2
• Values and Ethics – Demonstrating integrity and respect
• Strategic Thinking – Innovating through analysis and ideas
• Engagement - Mobilizing people, organizations, partners
• Management Excellence – Delivering through action management, people management, financial management
• Communication

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Experience:
• Experience working at a lock, dam, or water-control structure
• Experience operating commercial marine vessels
• Experience managing human resources
• Experience in procurement or purchasing

Conditions of employment

• Reliability Status security clearance
• Must work at excessive heights above water, in high risk conditions, and in inclement weather. Including physical functions such as on feet for long periods of time, up and down ladders, lifting 50 lbs and bending repeatedly.

Other information

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
• Candidates MUST answer all screening questions as these will be used for screening purposes. You must provide concrete and detailed examples to clearly demonstrate how you meet the education and experience requirements listed in the essential qualifications and asset qualifications sections. The screening board cannot make any assumptions about your experience. It is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current duties. One effective approach would be to use the wording of each experience criterion as a heading and then write one or two paragraphs demonstrating that you have the required experience and ensure that clear and accurate details are provided. The curriculum vitae may be a secondary source to confirm the experience described in the cover letter. APPLICATIONS THAT DO NOT CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE THAT THE CANDIDATE MEETS THE SCREENING CRITERIA WILL NOT BE GIVEN FURTHER CONSIDERATION.
• Top-down consideration of scores may be used at any stage of this process to determine the number of qualified candidates who will be considered further in the process.
• Essential qualifications and asset qualification will be evaluated against depth and breadth of activities.
• A written exam will be administered.
• Candidates must obtain the required pass mark for each qualification in order to be given further consideration in the selection process.
• Depending on the requirements of the position(s) being staffed from this process, for current or future vacancies, any or all of the asset qualifications, operational requirements, and organizational needs may be applied at the time of screening.
• Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/
• For this selection process, our intention is to communicate with applicants by e-mail for screening/assessment purposes (including issuing screening results, and sending invitations for written tests and interviews). 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.
• Failure to respond to communications may be construed as a withdrawal from this process.
• In addition to all assessment methods, correspondence and communication in relation to this selection process may also be used to assess certain qualifications.
• Interviews will be conducted.
• Reference checks will be conducted.
• Candidates must meet the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position.
• Applicants with disabilities: Should you require a technical aid or an alternative method of assessment to ensure an equitable assessment of your qualifications, please indicate so in your application.
• 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 .
• Candidates from outside the federal public service may be required to pay for their own travel and relocation expenses.
• Public service employees found qualified in this process may be considered for acting, assignment, deployment or secondment.

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.