Technician - Support

Work environment
The Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) provides scientific expertise and laboratory capacity for infectious disease monitoring, detection, investigation and outbreak response to support national and international public health action. NML strives to be the employer of choice for Canadian and international scientific and non-scientific staff. Our employees contribute leadership, ingenuity, expertise and innovation to safeguard the health of Canadians and the global communityDue to the nature of the work and operational requirements, duties must be performed on-site.
Remote work or telework is not supported for this role.

Intent of the process
The intent of this selection process is to create a pool of qualified candidates from which future permanent and/or temporary vacancies may be filled within the Public Health Agency of Canada.The positions being staffed will be located in Winnipeg, MB, Guelph, ON and St Hyacinthe, QC.

Positions to be filled
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Important messages
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📢 How does this work?
✅ Step 1: Read the entire advertisement. Want to join our team? Let us know you’re interested! Click “Apply”
✅ Step 2: Tell us about yourself! Attach your resume and answer the screening questions in the online application.
✅ 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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▶ 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” to submit your application. If there are limitations or special circumstances preventing you from submitting your application via the GC Jobs online portal, you must contact us and receive approval to apply via an alternate means PRIOR to the closing date.
▶ 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.
▶ 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 qualifications
↪ You may be contacted and asked to submit information or be further assessed
▶ 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.
▶ The information you provide in this application must be true and may be verified. Any false information may result in the rejection of your application and/or not hiring you. Please only check off the locations that you are truly willing and able to work from. Choosing a location that you are not truly willing and able to work from slows down the process and impacts our ability to staff positions within the Department. By submitting an application, you are confirming that you are either currently living in one of these locations or are willing to relocate to them.
▶ 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 . Any violation may result in potential consequences which could include your elimination from this selection process.
▶ To support an efficient assessment process, essential experience criteria may be evaluated sequentially, one criterion at a time. Candidates must meet each criterion being assessed in order to proceed to the evaluation of subsequent criteria. Candidates who do not meet the criterion under review will be screened out of the process. It is the responsibility of candidates to carefully review the requirements and to ensure their application clearly demonstrates how each experience criterion is met.

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Secret or Reliability security clearance (depending on the position)
Medical clearance (depending on the position)

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Depending on the needs of the position one or more may be required:
• Must be available during core hours.
• Willingness and ability to occasionally work overtime.
• Willingness and ability to assist, mobilize, or deploy to fulfil operational requirements including outbreak and emergency laboratory responses.
• Willingness and ability to work with human and animal laboratory specimens.
• Willingness and ability to work with infectious agents and/or toxic chemicals.

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Essential Education:
Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology, Virology, Parasitology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Genetics, Molecular biology, Bioinformatics or Biology or other related discipline;
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Current active registration with the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMLS) as a general Medical Laboratory Technologist (MLT) and current active provincial MLT registration in the province in which the position is located, or pending registration, while awaiting the Medical Laboratory Sciences National Exam results. Documentation of equivalent standing within the relevant jurisdiction will be considered
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An acceptable combination of education, training and experience with specialization in science relevant to human health.

Essential Experiance
• Experience working within a scientific laboratory setting.
• Experience in the collation, review and analysis of data and results generated from laboratory testing or research.
• Experience operating, troubleshooting, or maintaining scientific equipment and its related software (where applicable).
• Experience in performing routine biological techniques or methods in one or more of the following disciplines; Microbiology (bacteriology, virology, parasitology or mycology), cell biology or molecular biology.
• Experience in good laboratory practices including safe handling of infectious material

Personal Suitability
• Demonstrating integrity and respect
• Thinking things through
• Working effectively with others
• Showing initiative and being action-oriented
• Written and oral communication

Abilities
• Ability to plan, organize and manage multiple simultaneous tasks.
• Ability to plan experiments, compile data and interpret results.
• Ability to troubleshoot laboratory procedures or techniques.

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Applied / assessed at a later date

Various language requirements - Various language requirements
English essential
French essential
Bilingual imperative BBB/BBB, CBC/CBC, CCC/CCC

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Asset Experience
• Experience in General laboratory techniques and applications
• Experience in Field studies
• Experience in Diagnostic testing/applications
• Experience in Molecular biology and/or immunology
• Experience in Omics (Genomics, Proteomics Or Metabolomics)
• Experience in Bioinformatics or computational biology
• Experience in Quality control/Quality management systems

Depending on the position being staffed, the following criteria may be applied as essential requirements.Knowledge
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in microbiology (virology, bacteriology, mycology or parasitology)
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in cell biology
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in immunology
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in bioinformatics
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in biochemistry
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in molecular biology

Organizational needs
The Public Health Agency is committed to fostering a culture rooted in diversity, inclusiveness and accessibility. In alignment with the Employment Equity Act and various legislative drivers and priorities, we aim to be representative of and responsive to the identified equity groups (Indigenous Peoples, Women, Black and Racialized Peoples and Persons with Disabilities). Candidates from equity groups are encouraged to identify as such in their application. Employment equity may be a factor taken into consideration during the staffing process as this contributes to the strategic priorities, diversity and inclusiveness of the organization, thereby contributing to positive outcomes for all peoples of Canada.

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Preference will be given to veterans first, followed by Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of jobs located in Nunavut or Yukon. For positions located in Nunavut, qualified Inuit enrolled under the Nunavut Agreement will be appointed first. For positions located in Yukon, qualified Yukon First Nations will be appointed first, followed by qualified Indigenous persons.

Learn more about preference to veterans.

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