Defence Scientist

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Assessment accommodation

List of documents to provide:
• Resume
o Including, as a minimum; the education level (program, school, degrees and certificates obtained, dates); list of relevant work experiences in relation to the advertised position (for each experience, indicate: Title of position, name of the organisation, start and end dates, including number of months, brief description of tasks performed and responsibilities).
• Support document for the oral presentation (eg Powerpoint)
o The subject of the presentation will be provided to the candidates by email a week before the interview.

Work environment

Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) is the national leader in defence and security science and technology.
As an agency of Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND), DRDC provides DND, the Canadian Armed Forces and other government departments as well as the public safety and national security communities, the knowledge and technological advantage needed to defend and protect Canada’s interests at home and abroad.

Intent of the process

Immediate need will be to fill 1 indeterminate position.

A pool of qualified candidates may be established and may be used to staff similar positions with various tenures (term, indeterminate, deployment, assignment, secondment).

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

Contact information for 3 references.

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

Education:
Master's degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with a specialization in physics or engineering physics or another relevant field related to the position combined with an acceptable level of experience.

Degree equivalency

Experience:
• Experience of three (3) years or more in the design and development of physical and mathematical models that describe and characterize the phenomena related to the optical physics of the atmosphere caused by aerosols;

• Experience in the design, modification and operation of lidars and active electro-optical systems (2 projects or more);

• Experience in the exploitation and development of algorithms for lidar signal processing and active systems (2 or more projects);

• Experience in optical system design (2 or more systems).

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

Education:
• Doctorate from a recognized post-secondary institution in physics with specialization in optics and photonics.

Degree equivalency

Experience:
• Fortran, C ++, IDL, Python or Matlab programming languages;
• Designing and developing of Monte Carlo models;
• Defining research contracts and technical specifications.

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

Bilingual - Imperative (BBB/BBB)

Information on language requirements

Knowledge:
• Knowledge of the phenomenology and modeling of single and multiple scattering of lasers by aerosols;
• Knowledge of optical measurement and quantification methods for aerosols;
• Knowledge of the Monte Carlo method applied to the propagation of lasers in turbid media;
• Knowledge of how active imaging systems work and the effects of aerosols on them.

Skills:
• Create and innovate through new theoretical or experimental approaches;
• Analyze problems and propose solutions;
• Team work;
• Plan and coordinate research;
• Effective verbal and written communication skills

Personal qualities:
• Initiative and leadership;
• Effective interpersonal skills;
• Responsible;
• Ability to work independently;
• Judgment;

Conditions of employment

- Various levels of reliability / security:
o Reliability
o Secret;

- Traveling within Canada and abroad, a few times a year.

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 designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

Reference checks may be sought.

An interview may be administered.

A test may be administered.

An oral presentation will have to be made.

A situational exercise may be administered.

You must provide proof of your education credentials.

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

You must indicate on your application if you require a technical aid for testing or an alternative method of assessment.

A random and/or top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

The client organization will accept applications on-line only.

Preference

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

Information on the preference to veterans

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