Project Assistant

6 months ago

Ottawa, Canada Defence Construction Canada Full time

Who Can Apply?:
**Internal (DCC Employees) and External (General Public)**
- Salary Range:
**$39,549- $53,390**
- Employment status:
**Term**
- Term Length:
**4 months**
- Security Level:
**Reliability**
- Language Requirement:
- Closing Date:
**10/04/24**
- Country:
**Canada**

Defence Construction Canada is a dynamic and fast-paced Crown corporation. Our more than 1000 employees—all civilians—work in offices across the country, often co-located on military bases. Our clients include the Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence’s infrastructure and environment programs. Our corporate values are dedication, collaboration, competence, and fairness. These values guide our actions, the way we make decisions and how we conduct our business. To help us lead the way, we are looking for open minded, highly motivated, ready to learn, and reliable individuals.

As part of DCC’s ongoing efforts to recruit a diverse workforce, the National Student Program offers students a 4, 8, or 12 month work experience term. This is a great opportunity for students to be exposed to a work environment and to expand their skills.

**What You Can Expect**
- Monitoring tasks related to inspection, construction contracts, and control of materials
- Checking compliance with contractual requirements and reporting deviations
- Maintaining records, schedules and documents, and preparing standard reports
- Supporting renovation and new construction projects
- Participating in the tendering phases of construction contracts by reviewing plans and specifications
- Participate in consultant, construction and staff meetings

**What We Are Looking For**
- Good judgement, positive attitude and flexible nature
- Knowledge of computer software programs
- Strong communication, interpersonal and writing skills
- Attention to detail
- The ability to work independently

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.
- criminal record checks
- reference checks
- previous employment
- open source checks
- credit/financial status

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