Geomatics Officer

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Assessment accommodation

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We encourage applicants to identify any abilities, competencies, and/or experiences acquired through employment with the Canadian Armed Forces where applicable.

For your application to be considered, all screening questions must be answered. You must provide concrete examples to demonstrate how you meet each experience criterion. When answering the screening questions, remember that the assessment board cannot make assumptions about your Education and Experience. It is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current or past responsibilities. Rather, you must provide concrete examples with significant details to explain WHEN, WHERE, and HOW you acquired each qualification.

The ability to effectively communicate in writing may be assessed throughout your application (Résumé and answers to the screening questions).

Duties

Have you ever heard about Canada Lands?

These are not all lands in Canada, but they include lands in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut; more than 3,100 Indigenous lands; and Canada’s national and historic parks. The Surveyor General Branch maintains a comprehensive and precise geospatial parcel management system to manage more than 300,000 parcels that exist on these lands.

Want to learn more and contribute to the dissemination and publication of this data to stakeholders, then SGB may be for you!

The Surveyor General Branch (SGB) https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geomatics/canada-lands-surveys/10780 is the Government of Canada Centre of expertise for land surveying, geodesy and the international boundary between Canada and the United States.

This mandate is delivered through offices situated in 11 different locations across Canada namely: Vancouver, British Columbia; Edmonton, Alberta; Regina, Saskatchewan; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Toronto, Ontario; Ottawa, Ontario; Québec, Québec; Amherst, Nova Scotia (for Atlantic Canada), Whitehorse, Yukon; Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Iqaluit, Nunavut.

The Surveyor General Branch is looking for a Geomatics Officer to join the Land Survey Registry team to provide technical support in the dissemination and publication of the geospatial parcel data.

Summary of Duties / Activities may include:
• Design and develop geospatial data transformation routines to create cadastral geospatial datasets for external users.
• Design, build and develop geospatial Web Services and Web Tools.
• Facilitate the integration of SGB data with external information systems by developing and implementing geospatial solutions.
• Integration of ISO 19115 Metadata with external systems.
• Maintain automated mapping routines that create and update custom regional mapping products.
• Maintain mapping products in support of branch activities.
• Develop and provide training to client organizations.
• Provides technical advice, guidance and assistance to internal users and client organizations.

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 intent is to staff one (1) position (full-time, permanent) at the EN-SUR-02 group and level, located in the Ottawa office (580 Booth Street) of the Surveyor General Branch of Natural Resources Canada.

A pool of fully or partially qualified candidates may be established through this process to staff identical or similar positions at the EN-SUR-02 group and level within Natural Resources Canada with various tenures (determinate period or permanent). The language requirements (English Essential, French Essential, English or French Essential and Bilingual), the method to staff a bilingual position (imperative and/or non-imperative), and linguistic profiles (BBB/BBB, CBC/CBC, CCC/CCC, etc.) may vary, as well as security requirements (Reliability Status, Secret), conditions of employment and work locations.

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:
►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 or geodetic sciences or remote sensing.

Degree equivalency

Experience:
►Significant* experience in the acquisition, analysis, processing or representation of geospatial data.
►Recent** experience developing applications using high–level programming languages.
►Experience delivering services related to geographic information systems (GIS).

*Significant is defined as experience generally acquired over 3 years within the last 5 years.
**Recent is defined as experience generally acquired within the last 5 years.

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

Asset Experience:
►Experience providing technical advice and problem-solving services to clients, partners, or managers.
►Experience applying digital mapping techniques to produce maps according to specifications and standards.
►Significant* and recent** experience programming scripts using scripting languages (such as Python, Javascript)
►Experience using ESRI ArcGIS Pro / ArcMap.
►Experience using Safe Software FME Workbench / Form.

*Significant is defined as experience generally acquired over 1 years within the last 5 years.
**Recent is defined as experience generally acquired within the last 5 years.

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

Various language requirements
►English Essential
►French Essential
►English or French Essential

Information on language requirements

Abilities & Competencies
►Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
►Ability to communicate effectively orally.

Personal Suitability
►Teamwork and Cooperativeness
►Dependability
►Thoroughness

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

Asset Knowledge:
►Knowledge of the field of geomatics regarding the acquisition, management, analysis or dissemination of vector geospatial data.
►Knowledge of programming scripts using scripting languages (such as Python, Javascript).

Asset Abilities & Competencies:
►Showing initiative and being action-oriented.
►Ability to identify and analyze problems and recommend viable solutions.

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, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities or women (in non-traditional occupations) could be considered in priority.

Conditions of employment

►Security Clearance: Reliability Status

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

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.

You must provide proof of your education credentials. Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/.

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

The breadth and depth of experience may be considered when making selections from the qualified pool.

Our intention is to communicate with candidates via email. Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email).

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.