Head, Life Cycle Assessment Unit (EN-ENG-05), Section Manager/Unit Head (PC-04)

Important messages

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Assessment accommodation

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. Please note that applications will be assessed using a numerical identifier, meaning that the assessing committee members will only be provided with your response and will NOT see any personal information or potential identifiers. This technique is employed to remove any potential unconscious biases.

Please clearly identify the stream(s) that you are applying for:
Stream 1: PC-04 - Section Manager/Unit Head
Stream 2: EN-ENG-05 - Head, Life Cycle Assessment Unit

Intent of the process

ANTICIPATORY. A pool of qualified candidates will be established and may be used to staff similar positions with various language requirements and linguistic profiles, security requirements and/or tenures within Environment and Climate Change Canada.

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:

Stream 1:
ED1. Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution, with acceptable specialization in physics, geology, chemistry or some other science relevant to the position.

Note: The courses for the specialization must be acceptable and must have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution, but not necessarily within a degree program in the required specialization.

Stream 2:
ED1. Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, aeronautical engineering, geological engineering, naval architecture or some other engineering specialty relevant to the duties of the position.

Recognized post-secondary institution:
A public or private institution that has been given authority to grant degrees, diplomas, and other credentials by a public or private act of a provincial/territorial legislature or through a government-mandated quality assurance mechanism. For greater certainty, also included are institutions authorized to grant specific academic credentials for specific academic programs.

Degree equivalency

Experience (Streams 1 and 2):
E1. Significant* experience in planning and co-ordinating activities within an environmental protection program.

E2. Significant* experience in conducting lifecycle analysis studies for GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions.

E3. Experience** in supervising employees.

E4. Significant* experience in establishing and maintaining partnerships, and collaborating with stakeholders.

E5. Significant* experience in providing strategic engineering or scientific advice or recommendations to senior management (director level or above), to inform complex*** policy, regulations or programs.

* Significant is defined as the depth and breadth of experience associated with having performed a broad range of work-related activities normally acquired over a period of three (3) or more years.
** Experience is defined as the depth and breadth of experience normally associated with full time performance of the duties in a work environment, during a period of at least one (1) year.
*** Complex files would contain two or more of the following characteristics: high profile (e.g. public or media attention), multi-stakeholder, high value (e.g. include financial information), multi-organizational, multi-jurisdictional (e.g. public-private, federal-provincial, federal-municipal), broad in scope, requiring broad consultations, high impact or any other factors the candidate can demonstrate that constitute complex.

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

Asset Qualifications – Education (Streams 1 and 2):
AED1. Master’s degree from a recognized post-secondary institution in business or public administration, management science, environmental, chemical, mechanical, or civil engineering or other area relevant to the duties of the position.

Degree equivalency

Asset Qualifications – Experience (Streams 1 and 2):
AEX1. Experience using lifecycle analysis models or lifecycle analysis software to calculate carbon intensity.
AEX2. Experience in the development, administration, or implementation of regulations, policies, programs or initiatives.
AEX3. Work experience in any of the following sectors: transportation; electricity generation, transmission and distribution; oil and gas, including either fossil fuel extraction, production, distribution or use; low carbon fuels; clean technology sector.
AEX4. Experience in leading working groups, committees or a multidisciplinary team of professionals.

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

Various language requirements
This selection process may be used to staff similar positions with linguistic profiles such as English or French Essential, Bilingual imperative BBB/BBB, CBC/CBC, CCC/CCC.

Information on language requirements

Second Language Writing Skills Self-Assessment
In order to help you decide if you should apply to a bilingual position, an optional self-assessment of your writing skills in your second official language is available for you to take before completing your application.

For more information, please consult:
Unsupervised Internet Test of Second Language Writing Skills

Knowledge (Streams 1 and 2):
K1. Knowledge of life cycle assessment (LCA) principles and practices.
K2. Knowledge of current Government of Canada priorities related to climate change and environmental issues.

Abilities (Streams 1 and 2):
A1. Ability to develop recommendations and to provide strategic advice to management.
A2. Ability to manage, plan, organize and set priorities.
A3. Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
A4. Ability to communicate effectively orally.

Personal Suitability (Streams 1 and 2):
PS1. Achieving management excellence through delivering results
PS2. Collaborating with partners and stakeholders
PS3. Judgment
PS4. Dependability

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

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 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:
- Some of the positions may require the willingness and availability to work overtime on occasion and possibly on short notice.
- Some of the positions may require travel within Canada.
- Some of the positions may require the ability to work remotely.

Conditions of employment

Security Clearance: Various (e.g. Reliability, Secret)

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

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 must meet the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position.

Asset experience could be used at the screening stage. Please ensure that you clearly indicate with concrete examples how you meet these qualifications.

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.

Communication for this process will be sent via email. It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure accurate contact information is provided and updated as required. Candidates who apply to this selection process should include an email address that accepts email from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email).

A written examination, an interview and/or a reference check may be part of the candidates' assessment. Your ability to communicate effectively in writing will be assessed through the answers you will provide in all of the screening questions you will be required to answer in the GC Jobs questionnaire.

If you are already working for the Public Service, please clearly identify your substantive group and level, your employment status, and Personal Record Identifier (PRI) on your resume / application.

Candidates will be required to submit a copy of their education documentation. Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency upon request. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/.

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 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.