Who Can Apply?:

Internal (DCC Employees) and External (General Public)

Salary Range:

$79,067 - $102,788

Employment status:

Continuing

Term Length:

Security Level:

Secret

Language Requirement:

English Essential

Closing Date:

30/10/2025

Country:

Canada

The Coordinator, Commissioning, carries out commissioning activities (e.g. prepare reports, verify and witness static and dynamic testing, inspect building systems) for contracts with medium- or high-complexity commissioning requirements. The incumbent may act as commissioning authority.

KEY AND PERIODIC ACTIVITIES
The duties and responsibilities listed below are representative but not all-inclusive:
Primary

• Review drawings and specifications for commissioning requirements
• Prepare design review, commissioning and testing reports
• Verify equipment installation and function, and witness static and dynamic testing
• Complete estimates for contract changes
• Review consultant statements of work to ensure commissioning requirements are clear and comply with DCC quality assurance requirements
• Identify potential commissioning problems and make recommendations to construction coordinators on possible solutions
• Develop and maintain effective relationships within DCC, and with industry, the Client-Partners and/or stakeholders
• Ensure quality standards are met, in line with corporate and Client-Partner expectations

Other

• Other duties as assigned

SKILLS
General and Specific Knowledge

• Best practices, methods, trends and legislation in construction commissioning
• New building commissioning, retro- and recommissioning of existing buildings
• Commissioning schedules, tools and technologies
• Roles and responsibilities of the project team in commissioning and training
• System-by-system commissioning requirements
• Testing Air Balancing and verification procedures
• Project, contract and risk management principles
• Health and safety management

Formal Education and/or Certification(s) and Experience

• Minimum: college diploma in mechanical or building automation control systems or related field with four years’ relevant experience, or the equivalent

Abilities

• Use applicable computer software and operating systems
• Apply various steps in the commissioning process to a project
• Apply project, contract and risk management techniques

Development and Leadership

• Provide functional advice and guidance to employees and to Client-Partners

Working Conditions

• Typical construction site environment; incumbent is required to wear basic safety equipment
• Some work may be in a typical office environment with occasional travel

Check out your benefits
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
• $1,500 for mental health services on top of regular $1,500 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

Trenton, Ontario
Trenton is located an hour and a half east of Toronto on the Bay of Quinte, the starting point for the Trent-Severn Waterway. With a population of 22,000, and a 90-year association with the Royal Canadian Air Force, Trenton is surrounded by conservation areas, campsites, marinas and golf courses, and is 30 minutes from the wineries of scenic Prince Edward County.

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

DCC's Code of Business Conduct (Code) is a condition of employment. It serves to enhance public confidence in the integrity of DCC Employees and provides clarity to Employees on a number of issues, including real or perceived conflicts of interest. Before applying to this (or any) position at DCC, candidates shall familiarize themselves with the Code, because new employees are required to certify that they have read, understood, and agreed to observe the Code upon commencing work at DCC. Employees are further required to review their obligations under the Code and notify the President's Office of any changes in their circumstances at the earliest possible opportunity, and to complete the Annual Update once a year.

Be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace!

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. We also welcome applications from those who are not Canadian citizens who are eligible to work in Canada and have at least 5 years of verifiable background information.

DCC is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all requests for accommodation based on a medical contraindication, religion or another prohibited ground for discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act. Should you require accommodation, please email careers@dcc-cdc.gc.ca.