Top Benefits
About the role
POSITION TITLE: Electrician
LOCATION: Remote Long Range Radar Sites located in Cape Parry, NT (PIN-MAIN); Shepard Bay (CAM-3)
SECURITY CLEARANCE: Secret
POSITION TYPE : Permanent, Unionized, 6x6 Rotation
REPORTS TO: Site Supervisor
About Us Nasittuq Corporation (from the Inuktitut word meaning “looking out from the highest point”) operates and maintains the North Warning System (NWS), a critical joint Canada-US radar network with 47 sites across Northern Canada.
OUR CORE VALUES—Safety, Diversity, Integrity, Social Responsibility, Environmental Stewardship, and Agility—guide everything we do. Scope The Electrician is responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting facility systems and electrical distribution networks. This includes ensuring operational efficiency, maintaining accurate documentation, and effectively utilizing the work order management system.
What You’ll Do
- Perform maintenance, diagnostics, and repairs on electrical power transmission and distribution systems, including conductor splicing, terminating, and servicing switchgear, circuit breakers, power transformers, motors, batteries, and related components.
- Conduct maintenance and repairs on electrical systems related to HVAC, refrigeration, food service, water supply, sewage disposal, fuel dispensing, building and airstrip lighting, and fire detection/alarm systems.
- Support the power plant mechanics with major maintenance tasks on prime power plant generating and distribution systems.
- Provide training to site mechanics on operating and maintaining electrical equipment.
- Complete routine inspections of electrical equipment and systems, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
- Maintain operational reports and files related to the NWS work management system.
- Perform other duties assigned by higher authority, including unplanned or transient tasks.
- Work in remote Arctic conditions, with frequent travel between radar sites as required.
Who You Are
- Certificates/Licenses: Qualified/licensed journeyman as an Industrial Electrician. A provincial/territorial certificate of qualification is required. A valid driver's license of required.
- Experience: Minimum 5 years of hands-on journeyman experience in an industrial environment. Industrial mechanical maintenance experience, particularly in power plant operations, is an asset.
- Skills: Strong problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize tasks. Strong diagnostic, troubleshooting, and communication skills. Physically fit, with the ability to climb towers and pass working-at-heights training. Familiarity with programmable logic controllers, diesel generators, switchgear, distribution systems, and safety regulations. Experience with fire detection and suppression systems is an asset.
- Cross-Cultural Skills: Must be willing and able to work in a cross-cultural environment while supporting Nasittuq’s mission and commitment to Inuit employment.
Why Join Us? ROTATION & OVERTIME: 6 weeks in/6 weeks out rotation (48-hour workweeks) with overtime at 1.5x your base rate. Paid travel days (up to 2 days) with all travel costs covered.
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS : Private accommodation with meals, Wi-Fi, TV, laundry and recreation facilities.
COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS: Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and employer-matched pension plan (5%).
ADDITIONAL PERKS: Arctic clothing and annual safety footwear allowance of $175. $500 referral bonus for eligible positions.
GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES : Access to training and skill development, with reasonable expenses covered.
VACATION PAY : 6% for employees under five years and 8% for those with over five years of tenure.
NORTHERN LIVING ALLOWANCE : Additional allowance for employees residing in designated northern communities: Inuvik, Cambridge Bay, Sanirajak, and Iqaluit.
Land Claim Beneficiaries of the Nunavut, Inuvialuit, and Nunatsiavut Land Claim Agreements will be prioritized. Applicants are encouraged to self-identify.
IQQANAIJAAQTAARASUAQTUT ILAGIJAUQATAULLUTIK INUIT NUNANGANNI NUNALIRINIRNMUT ANGIRUTIUSIMAJUNUT SIVULLIQPAUTAUNIAQTUT IQQANAIJAAQTAARTITAUJUNNAQTUNUT. IKAJUQTURPATSI IQQANAIJAAQTAARASUAQATAUJUSI NALUNAIQSIQULLUSI ILAGIJAUQATAUNITSINNIK.
ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖅᑖᕋᓱᐊᖅᑐ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᖃᑕᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᓐᓂ ᓄᓇᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᖏᕈᑎᐅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐸᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖅᑖᕐᑎᑕᐅᔪᓐᓇᖅᑐᓄᑦ . ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑐᕐᐸᑦᓯ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖅᑖᕋᓱᐊᖃᑕᐅᔪᓯ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᖁᓪᓗᓯ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᖃᑕᐅᓂᑦᓯᓐᓂᒃ .
Nasittuq provides accommodation during all parts of the hiring process, upon request, to applicants with disabilities. If contacted to proceed to the selection process, please advise us if you require any accommodation.
ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔪᖅᑐᖅᐸᒃᑲ ᐃᓄᑖᖃᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᑦᒍᑎᒥ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᐅᔾᔭᐅᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ !
Translation: We invite you to join us and embark on a rewarding career journey!
We thank you for your interest, however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
About Nasittuq Corporation
Nasittuq Corporation provides in-service support and facility operations and maintenance for the North Warning System. We also have a contract to provide site support and management services for the Ellesmere Island Commercial Support Contract in Alert, Nunavut.
Nasittuq's mission is to provide exemplary technical and management services to our Canadian Government customers, while increasing opportunities for Inuit participation as trainees, employees, suppliers and owners. We are proud to hold ISO certifications for Quality (ISO 9001:2015) and Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001:2015).
Nasittuq Corporation is a partnership between ATCO Frontec Ltd. and Pan Arctic Inuit Logistics Corporation (PAIL). PAIL is an organization wholly owned by seven shareholder corporations representing Canada’s Inuit community. These organizations Include: Inuvialuit Development Corporation (IDC); Nunasi Corporation; Makivik Corporation; the Nunatsiavut Group of Companies (NGC); Qikiqtaaluk Corporation; Sakku Investments Corporation, and Kitikmeot Corporation. PAIL’s first initiative was to pursue the award of the North Warning System operations and maintenance contract through a Joint Venture with ATCO Frontec.
Top Benefits
About the role
POSITION TITLE: Electrician
LOCATION: Remote Long Range Radar Sites located in Cape Parry, NT (PIN-MAIN); Shepard Bay (CAM-3)
SECURITY CLEARANCE: Secret
POSITION TYPE : Permanent, Unionized, 6x6 Rotation
REPORTS TO: Site Supervisor
About Us Nasittuq Corporation (from the Inuktitut word meaning “looking out from the highest point”) operates and maintains the North Warning System (NWS), a critical joint Canada-US radar network with 47 sites across Northern Canada.
OUR CORE VALUES—Safety, Diversity, Integrity, Social Responsibility, Environmental Stewardship, and Agility—guide everything we do. Scope The Electrician is responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting facility systems and electrical distribution networks. This includes ensuring operational efficiency, maintaining accurate documentation, and effectively utilizing the work order management system.
What You’ll Do
- Perform maintenance, diagnostics, and repairs on electrical power transmission and distribution systems, including conductor splicing, terminating, and servicing switchgear, circuit breakers, power transformers, motors, batteries, and related components.
- Conduct maintenance and repairs on electrical systems related to HVAC, refrigeration, food service, water supply, sewage disposal, fuel dispensing, building and airstrip lighting, and fire detection/alarm systems.
- Support the power plant mechanics with major maintenance tasks on prime power plant generating and distribution systems.
- Provide training to site mechanics on operating and maintaining electrical equipment.
- Complete routine inspections of electrical equipment and systems, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
- Maintain operational reports and files related to the NWS work management system.
- Perform other duties assigned by higher authority, including unplanned or transient tasks.
- Work in remote Arctic conditions, with frequent travel between radar sites as required.
Who You Are
- Certificates/Licenses: Qualified/licensed journeyman as an Industrial Electrician. A provincial/territorial certificate of qualification is required. A valid driver's license of required.
- Experience: Minimum 5 years of hands-on journeyman experience in an industrial environment. Industrial mechanical maintenance experience, particularly in power plant operations, is an asset.
- Skills: Strong problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize tasks. Strong diagnostic, troubleshooting, and communication skills. Physically fit, with the ability to climb towers and pass working-at-heights training. Familiarity with programmable logic controllers, diesel generators, switchgear, distribution systems, and safety regulations. Experience with fire detection and suppression systems is an asset.
- Cross-Cultural Skills: Must be willing and able to work in a cross-cultural environment while supporting Nasittuq’s mission and commitment to Inuit employment.
Why Join Us? ROTATION & OVERTIME: 6 weeks in/6 weeks out rotation (48-hour workweeks) with overtime at 1.5x your base rate. Paid travel days (up to 2 days) with all travel costs covered.
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS : Private accommodation with meals, Wi-Fi, TV, laundry and recreation facilities.
COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS: Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and employer-matched pension plan (5%).
ADDITIONAL PERKS: Arctic clothing and annual safety footwear allowance of $175. $500 referral bonus for eligible positions.
GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES : Access to training and skill development, with reasonable expenses covered.
VACATION PAY : 6% for employees under five years and 8% for those with over five years of tenure.
NORTHERN LIVING ALLOWANCE : Additional allowance for employees residing in designated northern communities: Inuvik, Cambridge Bay, Sanirajak, and Iqaluit.
Land Claim Beneficiaries of the Nunavut, Inuvialuit, and Nunatsiavut Land Claim Agreements will be prioritized. Applicants are encouraged to self-identify.
IQQANAIJAAQTAARASUAQTUT ILAGIJAUQATAULLUTIK INUIT NUNANGANNI NUNALIRINIRNMUT ANGIRUTIUSIMAJUNUT SIVULLIQPAUTAUNIAQTUT IQQANAIJAAQTAARTITAUJUNNAQTUNUT. IKAJUQTURPATSI IQQANAIJAAQTAARASUAQATAUJUSI NALUNAIQSIQULLUSI ILAGIJAUQATAUNITSINNIK.
ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖅᑖᕋᓱᐊᖅᑐ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᖃᑕᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᓐᓂ ᓄᓇᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᖏᕈᑎᐅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐸᐅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖅᑖᕐᑎᑕᐅᔪᓐᓇᖅᑐᓄᑦ . ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑐᕐᐸᑦᓯ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖅᑖᕋᓱᐊᖃᑕᐅᔪᓯ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᖁᓪᓗᓯ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᖃᑕᐅᓂᑦᓯᓐᓂᒃ .
Nasittuq provides accommodation during all parts of the hiring process, upon request, to applicants with disabilities. If contacted to proceed to the selection process, please advise us if you require any accommodation.
ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔪᖅᑐᖅᐸᒃᑲ ᐃᓄᑖᖃᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᑦᒍᑎᒥ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᐅᔾᔭᐅᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ !
Translation: We invite you to join us and embark on a rewarding career journey!
We thank you for your interest, however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
About Nasittuq Corporation
Nasittuq Corporation provides in-service support and facility operations and maintenance for the North Warning System. We also have a contract to provide site support and management services for the Ellesmere Island Commercial Support Contract in Alert, Nunavut.
Nasittuq's mission is to provide exemplary technical and management services to our Canadian Government customers, while increasing opportunities for Inuit participation as trainees, employees, suppliers and owners. We are proud to hold ISO certifications for Quality (ISO 9001:2015) and Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001:2015).
Nasittuq Corporation is a partnership between ATCO Frontec Ltd. and Pan Arctic Inuit Logistics Corporation (PAIL). PAIL is an organization wholly owned by seven shareholder corporations representing Canada’s Inuit community. These organizations Include: Inuvialuit Development Corporation (IDC); Nunasi Corporation; Makivik Corporation; the Nunatsiavut Group of Companies (NGC); Qikiqtaaluk Corporation; Sakku Investments Corporation, and Kitikmeot Corporation. PAIL’s first initiative was to pursue the award of the North Warning System operations and maintenance contract through a Joint Venture with ATCO Frontec.