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✅ Step 3: We will carefully review all your qualifications. If your talent matches one of our immediate or upcoming opportunities, we may contact you for further information or assessment.
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Have you performed Ammunition Technical Authority duties and determined requirements supporting the Canadian Armed Forces ammunition?
Are you committed to ensuring safety procedures are followed, and reviewing technical ammunition specifications?
If you answer yes to any of those questions, we want to hear from you!
The Department of National Defence (DND) is one of the largest federal government employers, offering over 70 types of civilian career opportunities. DND's role is to provide services and support to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in their operations and missions at home and abroad. The civilian workforce is an essential part of the Defence Team. Your knowledge and expertise contribute to the overall mission. In this regard, the department fosters a work environment where you have opportunities to learn, to develop your talents, to progress in your career and have job satisfaction over the long-term.
The intent of this process is to fill one (1) English essential GT-07 position in the Ottawa, Ontario, on an indeterminate (permanent) basis.
A pool of partially or fully qualified candidates resulting from this process may be established and used to fill similar positions with various tenures, linguistic profiles, and/or security requirements at the Department of National Defence.
Positions to be filled: 1
Your résumé.
EDUCATION
The minimum standard is:
• A secondary school diploma or employer-approved alternatives (see Note 1).
📢 Note:
1. The employer-approved alternatives to a secondary school diploma are:
💻 A satisfactory score on the Public Service Commission test approved as an alternative to a secondary school diploma; or
💻 An acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.
Candidates who already meet both of the following criteria must be accepted as meeting the secondary school diploma requirement:
-Candidates who have achieved a satisfactory score on the Public Service Commission test approved as an alternative to a secondary school diploma; and
-Candidates who have been appointed or deployed for an indeterminate period to a position in the GT classification.
The opportunity to be assessed by at least one of the two employer-approved alternatives must be offered to candidates who have not previously met the secondary school diploma requirement.
Candidates who were appointed or deployed on an indeterminate basis using an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience meet the secondary school requirement for the GT classification only and must be reassessed for entry to other classifications on the basis of this alternative.
OCCUPATIONAL CERTIFICATION
💼 Required Ammunition technical Officer course or Advanced Ammunition Engineer course
💼 Required Ammunition and Explosives specialist supplement
EXPERIENCE
✨ Experience in determining infrastructure requirements supporting the Canadian Armed Forces ammunition program including but not limited to: new construction, technology requirements and licensing considerations.
✨Experience producing technical written material to brief senior management*.
*Senior management is defined as Director and above.
✨ Experience in analysing data to give recommendations or advice to senior management*.
*Senior management is defined as Director and above.
✨ Experience providing or reviewing technical specifications.
✨Experience in human resources supervision.
✨Experience performing Ammunition Technical Authority duties.
English essential
Information on language requirements
COMPETENCIES
▶ Demonstrating integrity and respect
▶ Thinking things through
▶ Working effectively with others
▶ Showing initiative and being action-oriented
▶ Communication (written and oral)*
*Written communication will be assessed with your application and correspondence.
EXPERIENCE
⭐ Experience analyzing metrics relating to performance or operational effectiveness.
KNOWLEDGE
♦ Knowledge of safety procedures and guidelines as they pertain to the operations of the Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot.
♦ Knowledge of policy relating to inventory control, technical services, stock taking and regulatory compliances of Canadian Armed Forces ammunition and explosives.
♦ Knowledge of Ammunition warehousing, maintenance, and repair procedures
Selection may be limited to members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women
Information on employment equity
The Department of National Defence is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive team that reflects Canada's population. To achieve a representative workforce, selection may be based on qualified candidates self-declaring as belonging to one or more of the designated groups: Indigenous Peoples, members of visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and women. We encourage you to indicate if you belong to any of the designated groups when you apply.
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As means to support our military families and linked with the Department of National Defence priorities, consideration may first be given to the spouses or common-law partners of serving Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members.
OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
🔹 Willing and able to travel.
🔹 Willing and able to work overtime.
🔹 Willing and able to attend training.
Secret security clearance
Strict adherence to the Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces Code of Values and Ethics, Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector, Directive on Conflict of Interest, and Defence Administrative Orders and Directives (DAOD) 7021-1, Conflict of Interest.
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.
▶ Our organization will only accept on-line applications for this opportunity. Please click “Apply online” to submit your application. If there are limitations or special circumstances preventing you from submitting your application via the PSRS online portal, you must contact us and receive approval to apply via an alternate means PRIOR to the closing date.
▶ Depending on the position being staffed:
↪ Additional qualifications, operational requirements and/or conditions of employment may be required.
↪ Varying degrees of breadth and depth of experience may be deemed essential.
↪ Asset qualifications may be invoked as essential.
▶ Applicants who apply to this selection process must include in their application a valid email address and make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.
▶ All information obtained throughout the selection process, from the time of application to close of process, may be used to evaluate the applicants. Your overall conduct and communications, including email correspondence, may be used in the assessment of qualifications and competencies.
▶ If, at any point your Values and Ethics do not align with that of the Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces Code of Values and Ethics and Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector, you may be eliminated from further consideration in this process.
▶ To ensure the integrity of the selection process, the content and questions of the assessment must remain confidential. Please do not discuss or share the assessment content with anyone, including other candidates. You must complete the assessment, including screening questions, by yourself, without the help of others, including the use of unapproved internet resources and artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT or any other forms of artificial intelligence). Plagiarism and the use of artificial intelligence is strictly prohibited throughout the entire process and suspected non-compliance will be investigated. Any violation may result in potential consequences which could include your elimination from this selection process.
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.