Dangerous Goods Safety Inspector

Salary: Information about salaries and pay entitlements for this position is available on the Treasury Board Secretariat web site.

Benefits and Entitlements: Information about pensions and benefits is available on the Treasury Board Secretariat web site. For information on all other entitlements, view the Collective Agreement for the TI group.

IMPORTANT: The work locations for the Dangerous Goods Safety Inspector position are listed below . Please note that when submitting your application, the form may contain other work location selections across Canada. Therefore, when you register to this position, please ensure that you select one or more of the work locations as listed below.

Useful information about the various language requirements and language testing can be obtained from the Public Service Commission of Canada.

Candidates must fully demonstrate in their application that they meet all of the minimum qualifications.

For the Dangerous Goods Safety Inspector position only Canadian Citizens are allowed to apply in our inventory.

For all other positions, if there are sufficient qualified applicants who are Canadian citizens, the selection will be confined to these applicants. Please indicate in your application the reason for which you are entitled to work in Canada: Canadian citizenship, permanent resident status or work permit. More useful information about Citizenship requirements can be obtained on the Public Service Commission web site.

Within Transport Canada, the Civil Aviation Safety Inspectors - Dangerous Goods are responsible for promoting the uniform understanding of and compliance with these regulations as they apply to air transport.

There are approximately 24 Civil Aviation Safety Inspectors - Dangerous Goods across Canada whose job it is to:

Audit and inspect air operators (Canadian and Foreign)
Audit and inspect shippers and freight forwarders who handle, offer for transport, transport or import dangerous goods by air
Conduct investigations of alleged air related violations of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992
Implement enforcement actions including proceeding with prosecution action, and detention of dangerous goods
Approve Air Operator Dangerous Goods Chapter of the Operations Manuals and the Air Operator Transportation of Dangerous Goods Training Programs
Conduct Public Awareness activities.

About the Organization:

Each shipment of Dangerous Goods represents to some degree, a threat to life, health, property, and/or the environment unless appropriately prepared for transport. The Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations establishes the conditions under which these commodities can be safely transported by air, road, rail and/or marine.

These Inspectors are located within the Commercial and Business Aviation Branch of the Civil Aviation Directorate of the Safety and Security Group. The Civil Aviation headquarters directorate determines program contents, policy and standards, while the regions deliver the program. For more information on the directorate, you can visit the Civil Aviation section of the Department’s Internet web site.

Dangerous Goods Inspector