Senior Building Technologist

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Assessment accommodation

TIPS FOR APPLICANTS: When answering the screening questions ensure that you provide complete and thorough details of your experience. Do not assume that the screening board has any previous knowledge of your background, qualifications, or work history. You must be specific and provide concrete examples/details for each Experience element, as applications will be screened only on the information provided. Failure to provide sufficient information may result in your application being screened out of the competition.

Intent of the process

The immediate intent of this selection process is to staff one(1) future vacant English Essential position in Whitehorse, YT . A pool of qualified candidates may be established through this process and could be used to staff identical or similar positions in Whitehorse, YT with various security clearance levels as well as various tenures (indeterminate, specified period, deployment, acting, secondment, assignment) according to the position being staffed.

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)

EDUCATION

- Successful completion of a post-secondary education program in an acceptable technical field related to building operations from a recognized community college, CÉGEP or Technical Institute (e.g. trade certification or 4th class power engineering certification) OR an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE

- Significant* experience in providing property management services including site management, operations and maintenance of specialized properties and of facility specific electrical, mechanical and HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) systems and equipment.

- Experience in working with a preventative maintenance program and using it for building key performance indicators (KPI's).

- Experience in developing operations and maintenance standards for consideration by the organization.

- Experience in providing advice and guidance to management and staff on facility operations and maintenance programs.

- Experience in the supervision of contractors.

* Significant experience is deemed to be a minimum of 3 years.

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in electrical or mechanical system installations, trouble shooting and maintenance.

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

KNOWLEDGE

- Knowledge of property management operations and maintenance in commercial or industrial facilities.

- Knowledge of project and program management principles, methods and techniques.

ABILITIES

- Ability to provide advice to management on operations and maintenance related issues.

- Ability to coordinate the work of multiple groups in delivering operations and maintenance works.

- Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

- Ability to communicate effectively orally.

PERSONAL SUITABILITY

- Teamwork: Working collaboratively with others to achieve common goals.

- Results Orientation: Understanding expectation and knowing how to deliver timely, relevant, complete, accurate and useful reports, services to internal clients

- Ethics and Values: Modeling and promoting core values and ethics of the organization through words and actions.

- Managing Change: Instilling, implementing and dealing with change, challenges and ambiguity while balancing the need for a change with the need for continuity.

- Promotion: Creating awareness, understanding and need among people to use the organization’s programs effectively to generate new partnerships.

- Communications: Listens effectively and keeps people informed. Asks questions to ensure messages are clearly understood.

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of the Canada Labour Code Part II and how it applies to facility management in the Federal Public Service.

- Knowledge of the National Building Code of Canada 2015.

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS

Environment and Climate Change Canada is committed to having a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population we serve. In support of our Engagement Strategy to achieve employment equity goals, selection may be limited to qualified candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal peoples, Persons with a Disability, Visible Minorities and Women.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

- Occasional travel within Canada.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

All employees of the core public administration are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and attest to their vaccination status unless accommodated based on a medical contraindication, religion, or another prohibited ground for discrimination as defined under the Canadian Human Rights Act.

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

The hiring Department will only accept on-line applications. All job applications must therefore be submitted through the Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS). Following are some of the benefits associated with applying on-line.
• Applicants can create a profile and a resume that can be used when applying for other processes without having to recreate a new application each time.
• Applicants can modify their application/resume at any time BEFORE the closing date indicated on the job advertisement.
• Applicants can verify the status of their applications, at any time.
• Applicants can be notified electronically of tests or interviews and results.
For some jobs, applicants will find important information, namely the job questionnaire and a complete statement of merit criteria that are only available when applying on-line.

It is your responsibility to ensure that your email and contact information are maintained with the Assessment board AND in your Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS) account. All of the communication for this process will be conducted via the email address provided in your application AND/OR via your PSRS account, it is thus your responsibility to ensure that you check for messages regularly and to ensure that your email address accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email or filter them to a junk mail folder). Failure to respond to key messages may result in your being eliminated from this process.

Qualifications will be assessed by a variety of tools and methods. Therefore, a written exam, an interview, reference checks or other assessment methods may be used in this process. Candidates are expected to make a reasonable effort to make themselves available for assessments as scheduled.

Please note that any information provided through this selection process may be considered in the assessment of any of the essential and asset qualifications, including the ability to communicate effectively in writing.

If you are already working for the Public Service, please clearly identify your substantive group and level, your employment status, and PRI on your application. An assignment or an acting appointment is a temporary resourcing option. The approval of your substantive supervisor may/will be required before an offer can be made.

Indeterminate employees at the same group and level or equivalent may be considered first for deployment.

Depending on the number of applicants, the needs and/or Human Resources plans, volume management strategies such as random selection, top-down approach and/or establishing cut-off scores to determine who will continue in the staffing process, MAY BE USED for the purpose of managing applications.

Candidates will be required to provide proof of their education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcript (original documents only). Candidates with foreign educational credentials are required to provide proof of Canadian equivalency. You may consult The Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials at http://www.cicic.ca for further 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.

On October 6, 2021, the Government of Canada announced details of its plans to require vaccination across the federal public service. (https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/news/2021/10/backgrounder-covid-19-vaccine-requirement-for-the-federal-workforce.html)

As per the new Policy on COVID-19 Vaccination for the Core Public Administration (https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=32694) Including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, federal public servants in the Core Public Administration and members of the RCMP must attest to their vaccination status. The requirement for employees to be fully vaccinated applies whether they are teleworking, working remotely or working on-site. This is a condition of employment and it applies to indeterminate (permanent), determinate (term), casual, and student hiring. Should you reach the point in the selection process where it is necessary to verify terms and conditions of employment then the hiring manager or a human resources representative will contact you in order to complete an attestation.

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

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