Senior Surveyor

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Duties

As a Senior Surveyor, you will provide advice to clients on legislative, regulatory, and common law principles related to boundaries, and historical boundary documents and survey practices and methodologies. Identify common law principles and mechanisms for boundary dispute resolution. In addition, you will prepare land descriptions and research reports; this work includes verifying the quality of boundary surveys, ensuring Provincial and CLS survey standards are met and proposing solutions to address deficiencies in boundary surveys. You will prepare requests for proposals for survey related contracts, developing in-house estimates of costs, evaluation and approval activities. You may organize, plan and conduct routine field surveys including inspections. You will develop and deliver boundary presentations at professional conferences and to clients groups as well as provide recommendations on the amendment of standards, survey guidelines procedures and policies for the regulation of legal land surveys.

Work environment

At Natural Resources Canada, a Federal government job means developing leadership skills, fostering teamwork, and supporting creativity and innovation. We know it takes people from diverse pools of talent to make this happen. That is why we are looking for people like you. As an employee at Natural Resources Canada you can enjoy diverse employment opportunities, a range of career development programs, and a learning culture that supports you to learn on an ongoing basis. We support balancing your work and private life by offering the benefits of flexible work arrangements.

Intent of the process

The immediate need is to staff one position located in Edmonton, Alberta.

A pool of (fully or partially) qualified candidates may be established through this process to staff identical or similar positions at the EN-SUR-03 group and level within Natural Resources Canada in Edmonton, Regina and Vancouver with various tenures (term or permanent), various security requirements (Reliability status or Secret clearance) and with various conditions of employment.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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

A licence or authority to practice as a land surveyor in Alberta, British Columbia or Saskatchewan.

Approximately 2 years’ experience in providing boundary or cadastral survey services.

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

Knowledge of real property rights.
Knowledge of natural boundary principles.

Ability to communicate effectively orally.
Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

Dependability
Effective interpersonal relationships
Initiative
Thoroughness

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

Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in land survey theory and practice or other related field such as geomatics, geodetic sciences or remote sensing.

Degree equivalency

A Canada Lands Surveyor's commission AND licence to practice issued by the Association of Canada Lands Surveyors.

Experience in creating mapping products.

Knowledge of the Canada Lands Survey System (including Acts and Regulations).
Knowledge of legal land descriptions.

Ability to interpret and create legal land descriptions.
Ability to research complex survey boundary issues.

Selection may be limited to members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women

Information on employment equity

Natural Resources Canada is committed to establishing and maintaining a representative workforce. This organizational need may be identified as part of the appointment decision. In such cases, qualified candidates who self-declare as members of a visible minority group, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities or women (in non-traditional occupations) could be considered in priority.

Operational Requirements:
Willing and able to work overtime as required.
Willing and able to adopt flexible work hours according to operational requirements.
Willing and able to travel and do field work, occasionally in remote locations, for up to three weeks at a time.
Valid driver’s licence.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance - This factor is not used at the screening stage. The hiring department is responsible for the security clearance process.

Pre-appointment medical clearance approved by Health Canada.

Other information

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 targeted groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

All information obtained throughout the selection process, from the time of application to close of process, may be used to evaluate the candidates.

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.

Those selected for an interview should be prepared to provide the names of their references. Some or all of these individuals may be contacted. References must have an in-depth and direct knowledge of your work, and must be able to answer specific questions pertaining to your achievements and strengths.

Random selection and/or top-down selection may be used at any time during the process to identify which applicants will be further assessed.

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.