🤝 Everyone is welcome: Transport Canada (TC) is committed to building an inclusive workforce with a diversity of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds that represent Canada.
If you would like to work in a dynamic team, are forward thinking and action-oriented, enthusiastic about creating a more diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging, then TC is the place for you!
Applicants are encouraged to apply online using the Public Service Resourcing System. If there is something preventing you from doing so, please communicate with the contact persons at the bottom of this advertisement for assistance. Your submitted application will be active for 180 days. You will receive a notification in your account 14 days before the end of this period.
As positions become available, applicants who meet the qualifications may be contacted for further assessment.
Working in the Rail Safety Directorate at Transport Canada, Regional Railway Inspectors are responsible for monitoring railways to promote compliance with acts and regulations as well as working with railways in identifying and reducing risks.
To learn more about the work of railway inspectors, check out this video: https://tc.canada.ca/en/operations-equipment-inspections
What you will be doing:
☑ Conducting inspections and audits of railway facilities and operations within the region, and recommending compliance and/or enforcement actions as required;
☑ Providing technical advice and guidance to stakeholders in the railway industry;
☑ Applying expertise in investigations of accidents, incidents, injuries and fatalities, complaints and other situations as it relate to acts and regulations; and
☑ Participating in the planning and implementation of the regional inspection and monitoring program.
The reporting locations for this position are 101 - 22nd Street E, Room 305 in Saskatoon; 800 - 1601 Airport Road NE in Calgary, and 1100 - 9700 Jasper Avenue in Edmonton. The successful candidate will follow Transport Canada's hybrid work guidance for inspectors working in the field to ensure compliance with the work arrangement agreement and onsite presence requirement minimums for this position are consistent with those defined in the Treasury Board's Direction on prescribed presence in the workplace.
Travel is required, both locally and regionally, and occasionally nationally, for inspection and training activities. Duties will be performed in an office environment as well as various indoor and outdoor environments such as railway sites or yards and under varying weather conditions.
A pool of qualified or partially qualified candidates may be established to staff identical or similar positions with various linguistic profiles, tenures, and locations within Transport Canada.
Candidates will only be assessed once as part of this process if their application is screened in for further consideration.
Positions to be filled: 1
Your résumé.
❗ You must demonstrate your education, experience, and asset qualifications (if applicable) by answering screening questions in the application and providing supporting details in your résumé. The information and examples you provide must be concrete, including details on when, where, and how you meet the qualifications. It is not sufficient to simply state that you meet a qualification or provide a listing of your current or past responsibilities. Failure to provide the required information may result in your application being screened out.
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A secondary school diploma or an acceptable combination of education and experience.
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Significant* operational experience working as locomotive engineer OR yardmaster OR training instructor OR rail traffic controller OR operation experience working as a conductor OR transportation/operations supervisor or some combination of experience of all at a railway in Canada.
*Significant experience is defined as having performed a broad range of various and complex activities normally acquired over a period of at least five (5) years.
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Successful completion of a post-secondary program from a recognized post-secondary institution.
Experience working as a locomotive engineer at a railway in Canada.
Experience working in an operations supervisory role at a railway in Canada.
Experience working as a training instructor at a railway in Canada.
Experience working in an occupational health and safety environment.
Experience working as a rail traffic controller in a railway in Canada.
Experience working as a conductor on the main line at a railway in Canada.
English essential
Information on language requirements
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Knowledge in the application of the Canadian Rail Operating Rules, Duty and Rest Period Rules for Railway Operating Employees, and other rules related to train or yard operations.
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Demonstrating integrity and respect
Thinking things through
Working effectively with others
Showing initiative and being action-oriented
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Ability to recognize unsafe railway operating situations and to ensure corrective actions are taken.
Ability to communicate effectively orally.
Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
Ability to act in accordance with the Government of Canada's Values and Ethics.
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Qualified candidates who self-declare as members of Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, members of racialized communities and/or women may be selected for appointment first, to fulfill organizational needs. In addition, this organizational need may be invoked at any stage of the selection process.
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Ability and willingness to work overtime including evenings and weekends, as required.
Ability and willingness to work in adverse environments and weather conditions, as required.
Ability and willingness to travel and using all modes of transportation, as required.
Ability and willingness to exercise physical effort to climb, embark, and disembark railway equipment, at times on sites where access may be difficult and the terrain is rugged.
Ability and willingness to work independently.
Reliability Status security clearance
Required to pass a pre-employment Category III medical for Transportation Security Inspectors and pass a periodic Category II medical every 5 years.
Possession of a valid provincial or territorial driver’s license to operate a motor vehicle.
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
We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please use the Contact information below to request specialized accommodation. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.
Candidates applying from outside the public service will not be reimbursed for travel expenses linked to this assessment process. However, every reasonable effort will be made to minimize travel costs for candidates undergoing assessment.
A variety of assessment tools and methods such as written tests, self-assessments, standardized tests, interviews, and reference checks, may be used. All information obtained during the selection process from the time of application to close of process may be used to evaluate candidates.
Volume management strategies may apply to determine which candidates will be given further consideration during the assessment process.
Communications for this process will be sent via email. It is your responsibility to provide accurate and updated contact information in case of changes. Failure to respond to time sensitive correspondence may result in elimination from this process.
Candidates are entitled to participate in this process in the official language of their choice. You are asked to indicate your preferred official language in the application.
Original proof of education will need to be provided as part of this process. Candidates with foreign educational credentials will be required to provide proof of Canadian equivalency. You may consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials at www.cicic.ca for more information.
Candidates applying from outside the public service will not be reimbursed for travel expenses associated with this assessment process. However, reasonable efforts will be made to minimize travel costs for candidates undergoing assessment.
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.