Regional Transportation Security Inspector

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Assessment accommodation

📌INSTRUCTIONS📌

You must submit a complete application, including a resume along with answers for screening questions that clearly demonstrate how you meet the relevant criteria for education and experience as mentioned in the essential qualifications, along with applicable asset qualifications. Please note that your ability to communicate effectively by writing will be evaluated at every step of the process.

Please provide, for each experience criteria, concrete examples along with the following information:

1. Name of the department or organisation where the experience was acquired;
2. Job title and duration of occupied position (including dates);
3. Specific details related to tasks, projects or accomplishments that demonstrated how the experience was acquired.

⚙️ HIRING PROCESS
You may expect the following evaluations during the process:

• Written exam
• Second language evaluation
• In person or virtual interview (according to your preference)
• Reference check
• Category III Medical exam from Health Canada
• Security clearance application or transfer

Duties

👉Under the supervision of the Transportation Security Manager, your mandate will consist of enforcing legislation and regulations regarding air or rail security.

You will interact with various industry stakeholders daily, facilitate regulatory compliance and take enforcement measures when deemed appropriate. You will conduct operational and administrative inspections and investigations, work as a team to solve complex problems and will have the opportunity to contribute to a variety of special projects. The work consists of a balance between administrative and operational work (inspections). The training to be fully sufficient for the role takes approximately a year (1).

This task description may lead to the following positions: aviation security inspector, air cargo security inspector or rail security inspector.

Work environment

🔍The Safety and Security Group of Transport Canada is responsible for the development of regulations and national standards, as well as for the implementation of monitoring, testing, inspections and subsidy programs, which contribute to safety and security in the four modes of transport: aviation, marine, rail and road.

The Group also ensures that the Department is prepared to respond to transportation and transportation-related emergencies.

The existence of this position ensures the extent of leadership and oversight required to respond to the many new and expanding challenges in key areas of the Safety and Security Group mandate.

Intent of the process

The intent of this process is to staff positions for an indeterminate period. This process may also be used to establish a pool of essentially or partially qualified candidates in order to staff positions of various durations as they become available.

Positions to be filled: 3

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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

📚 EDUCATION

ED: A secondary school diploma, OR an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

📃 EXPERIENCE

EX1 : Recent and significant experience* in developing and maintaining partnerships with internal or external agencies or clients.

EX2: Recent and significant experience * in the analysis and/or legislation or policies or procedures enforcement

EX3: Recent and significant experience* in providing advice or recommendations to clients or supervisors.

EX4: Recent and significant experience* in the field of safety and security or law enforcement.

*Recent and significant is defined as a minimum experience of 2 years within the last 5 years.

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

Bilingual - Imperative (BBB/BBB)

Information on language requirements

🧠 KNOWLEDGE

K1: Knowledge of global transportation safety and security events and trends that have the potential to impact the safety of the national transportation system.

KEY LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

• KLC1: Demonstrating integrity and respect
• KLC2: Thinking things through
• KLC3: Working effectively with others
• KLC4: Showing initiative and being action oriented

ABILITIES

• CA1: Ability to communicate effectively orally
• CA2: Ability to understand and apply legislation
• CA3: Ability to communicate effectively by writing

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS

🎓 EDUCATION

AED : Degree from a recognized university

Degree equivalency

AEX1: Experience in conducting enforcement activities.

AEX2: Experience in conducting regulatory inspections or investigations.

AEX3: Experience in conducting environmental, risk or vulnerability assessments.

AEX4: Experience in emergency management.

AEX5: Experience in conducting regulatory or policy based inspections or regulatory or policy based audits.

AEX6: Experience in aviation safety, air cargo safety, rail safety or marine safety.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Required occasionally to travel regionally, nationally and internationally using all modes of transportation and agree to do so
• Required to work overtime on short notice and agree to do so
• Required to work overtime on a irregular schedule and agree to do so

Conditions of employment

Secret security clearance - • Obtain and maintain Secret Security Clearance

• Possess and maintain a valid driver’s license.
• Required to pass a pre-employment Category III Medical for Transportation Security Inspectors as well as Category II medical every 5 years.

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

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• Acknowledgment of receipt of applications will not be sent to applicants.

• Transport Canada will contact candidates once the screening process is completed.

• Please ensure that your email address is on your application for correspondence. 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).

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

• Candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications and/or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed.

• Successful candidate(s) must meet and maintain the conditions of employment throughout their employment.

• A variety of tools and methods may be used to assess candidates including, but not limited to, written tests, standardized tests, interviews, and/or reference checks. In addition, all information obtained throughout the selection process from the time of application to close of process may be used to evaluate candidates.

• Random and/or top down selection of candidates and/other other volume management method may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

• Candidates who were educated outside of Canada, must have the certificates and/or diplomas assessed against Canadian education standards. This will enable candidates to provide proof of Canadian equivalency when applying for a job in the public service. The Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC) assists persons who wish to obtain an assessment of their educational, professional, and occupational credentials by referring them to the appropriate organizations The CICIC can be contacted through its website at: http://www.cicdi.ca.

• 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.

• Following are some of the benefits associated with applying on-line through the Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS) :
- 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 verify the status of their applications, at any time;
- 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 online.

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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.