Technical Specialist, Project Management

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• Working with us offers excellent opportunities for growth and advancement—and entitles you to one of the job market’s best benefits packages valued at between 25 and 30% of your salary.
• Your package includes:
• Health and Wellness
• 100% employer-paid annual sick leave, and health and dental premiums
• $400 wellness allowance to help cover expenses such as a gym membership
• $2,500 for mental health services on top of regular $2,500 paramedical coverage
• Telus Virtual Health Care and $750 Health Care Spending Account for some expenses not covered under provincial plans
• Home and Family
• Life, accidental-death, and short-term disability insurance
• Enhanced inConfidence employee and family assistance program
• Maternity and parental leave top-up plan to 93% of regular gross earnings for up to 37 weeks
• Flexible workplace options, including $400 allowance every two years, to support working from home
• Leave and Retirement
• Public-service pension
• Comprehensive vacation and other paid-leave plans, along with deluxe travel benefit plans
• Wainwright Just two hours east of Edmonton, Wainwright offers both urban amenities and the family-oriented country lifestyle of the beautiful Battle River Valley. Known as the “Buffalo Capital of Canada,” it is a strong vibrant community of over 6,700 people, 500 of whom are at Camp Wainwright. Rich with health, educational, and recreational facilities, Wainwright offers a well-rounded quality of life, as well as a full slate of social and cultural facilities and events. You will find yourself enjoying the state-of-the-art Peace Memorial Multiplex, with its twin hockey rinks, a walking track and climbing wall, as well as the Communiplex, which has a pool, weight training facilities, dance studio, and much more. Wainwright also maintains outdoor soccer fields, baseball diamonds, tennis courts, a quality 18-hole golf course, and an extensive network of walking trails. Plus, Wainwright is also about 10-20 minutes from the Arm Lake, Clear Lake, and the Riverdale Park, where residents can camp, ride horses, canoe and kayak, fish, and sail.
• To begin a career with Defence Construction Canada (DCC), you must be a Canadian Citizen or a permanent resident of Canada. As a condition of employment with DCC, a minimum reliability security status clearance is required and some roles may require secret security status clearance.
• DCC is responsible for the Personnel Security Clearance process . Typically to be eligible for a "Reliability" clearance, you must have five years of verifiable background information and to be eligible for a "Secret" clearance, you must have 10 years of verifiable background information. The process usually involves reference inquiries, verification of qualifications, criminal records checks, and credit checks (as required) and may require fingerprints. For more information about obtaining a security clearance, please review the Standard on Security Screening .
• The appropriate security clearance is a condition of employment and it is the candidate’s or employee’s responsibility to ensure, they are able to obtain and maintain their required security level clearance to begin or continue their employment with DCC. Failure to obtain or maintain, the appropriate level of security clearance means either the candidate or employee will not receive a job offer, the conditional offer will be rendered null and void or their employment will be terminated with cause. A thorough security clearance process will be applied to all candidates or employees considered for an appointment; this process includes inquiries, verifications and assessments regarding matters such as, but not limited to:
• criminal record checks
• reference checks
• previous employment
• open source checks
• credit/financial status
• Be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace!
• Roles at DCC will require security at various levels including Reliability, Secret, Top Secret and for Canadian Eyes Only (proof of Citizenship required). While we welcome applications to our roles who are not Canadian citizens who are eligible to work in Canada and have at least 5 years of verifiable background information, selection will depend on the specific role’s requirements.
• At DCC, we are committed to ensuring everyone has a voice and can be their authentic selves in our workplace. We actively encourage applications from all, including but not limited to, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, visible minorities and members of the LGBTQ2+ community.
• DCC’s goal is to provide barrier-free access to employment opportunities and workspaces for employees and candidates. If you require an accommodation for the recruitment/interview process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs. Should you require accommodation, please email careers@dcc-cdc.gc.ca .