Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Canadian Coast Guard

 Selection Process Number: 23-DFO-ACCG-EA-601245

Closing date: October 5, 2025 -23:59, Pacific Time

Job Title: Various Cooks
Classification: SC-STD-03/SC-STD-04/SC-STD-05
Tenure: Casual, Deployment, Secondment, Specified Period, Indeterminate
Locations: St. John's (Newfoundland and Labrador), Dartmouth (Nova Scotia), Shippagan (New Brunswick)
Rates of pay: 
SC-STD-03: $67,721 per year 
SC-STD-04: $69,909 per year
SC-STD-05: $72,177 per year
Who can apply: Persons residing in Canada and Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents residing abroad.

About the Job: 

Your Canadian Coast Guard Adventure Awaits!

Embark on an extraordinary maritime adventure with the Canadian Coast Guard!  Join our elite team and embrace a career of courage, resilience, and purpose.  As a guardian of Canada's vast coastal waters, you'll experience the thrill of saving lives, protecting our marine ecosystems, and ensuring maritime safety.  Unleash your skills and be part of a tight-knit community that fosters personal growth and professional development.  Answer the call, and let the Canadian Coast Guard be your gateway to an exhilarating career on the high seas!

Get to know us:

Want a career where you help save lives?

The Canadian Coast Guard offers a sea of careers that few can emulate. We are an organization that offers its employees the chance to save lives, protect Canada’s pristine environment, and travel to areas so remote that your only neighbour is wildlife. In short, we are anything but ordinary!

As an organization, we oversee ships of all types; cutting-edge helicopters; and employ about 4,500 people, who work tirelessly to protect and secure 243,000 kilometers of Canada’s vast and rugged coastline.

The Canadian Coast Guard has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People in 2023! Apply now so you don’t miss the boat!

Who you are:

• You have a Cook certificate issued by a recognized institute or a Transport Canada Ship’s Cook Certificate.
• You have experience working in a professional kitchen.
• You love cooking and understand various cooking methods, equipment, and procedures.
• You enjoy working with a commitment to safety and sanitation.
• You've got great interpersonal skills and love working with a team.
• You're able to lift up to 30lbs and work while standing or walking for prolonged periods.
• You are able to successfully complete Marine Emergency Duty training in STCW Basic Safety and also in Proficiency in Survival Craft and Rescue Boats other than Fast Rescue Boats.

What you’ll be doing as key activities:

• You will be assisting in preparing and cooking all food, planning and organizing its operation, assisting in storing of food, and maintenance of the galley and its equipment.
• You will be modifying recipes to suit the dietary and special needs of passengers and crew.
• You will ensure a high standard of food safety and sanitation throughout the galley.
• You will be participating in shipboard emergency and safety drills such as firefighting, abandoning ship, man overboard, damage control, and other operations such as search and rescue.
• You will be assisting under the direction of the Rescue Specialist in First Aid procedures as applicable to individuals and groups during rescue operations, and care for persons on board.

In addition to these key activities:

Cook/Steward 

• You will be preparing dining room, mess rooms, and pantries for food service, serves meals and performs after meal clean-up.
• You will be performing hotel services and cleans accommodation and common areas including laundry services in a timely manner.

Cook/Deckhand

• You will be assisting in Search and Rescue, Environmental Response, Scientific, Hydrographic, and Fisheries operations.
• You will be assisting in the lifting, placing and the maintenance of floating and fixed aids to navigation with the operation of a variety of winches, cranes, deck machinery.

Chief Cook

• You will be planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and coordinating the operation of the Logistics Department which includes hotel services.
• You will be coordinating the operation and maintenance of the galley and its equipment.
• You will be managing the human resources assigned to the Logistics department.

Working with us:

The intent of this selection process is to create an inventory of qualified candidates to be used to staff casual, term and indeterminate opportunities within the Canadian Coast Guard.

Our offer to you:

Benefits of working at the Canadian Coast Guard include:

• Company paid training - great opportunities for advancement.
• Unionized position with the Public Service Alliance Canada.
• Our crew enjoy regular schedules with minimal disruptions - you can plan your time at home.
• We sail safe - your safety is our top priority.
• Public Service Pension: Prospective members of the public service pension plan - Canada.ca
• Public Service Health Care plan:  Public Service Health Care Plan | Maximum Eligible Expenses (pshcp.ca)
• Public Service Dental Plan:  Welcome Public Service Dental Care Plan! (canadalife.com)
• Leave provisions such as vacation leave, sick leave, bereavement, personal and more as outlined in the collective agreement

Essential Qualifications

Various language requirements
English essential
Bilingual Imperative (--B/--B)

Information on language requirements

Certification

■ Possession of a Cook certificate issued by a recognized institute or a Transport Canada Ship’s Cook Certificate.

Competencies

■ Working Effectively with Others

■ Dependability

■ Planning and Organizational Skills

■ Communication Skills

Asset Qualifications 

Experience

■  Experience in the duties and responsibilities of a Cook onboard a ship.

■  Experience in hospitality, a restaurant or an institutional setting as a cook.

■  Experience working as a Deckhand.

FOR CHIEF COOK SC STD 05 POSITIONS ONLY:

■  Experience organizing the daily operations of the kitchen.

■  Experience building menus.

Successful training in one or more of the following areas:

■ *Valid Marine Emergency Duty (MED) STCW Basic Safety [A1 & B2]

■  *Valid Marine Emergency Duty (MED) Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boats other than Fast Rescue Boats [B1]

* Note: Must successfully complete Marine Emergency Duty training within 6 months of initial date of hire.

■ Valid food safe certification

■ Marine Basic First Aid

Conditions of Employment

■ Maintain valid Reliability Security Clearance.

■ Maintain valid Health Canada Medical for seagoing personnel.

■ Maintain a valid Certificate of Competency.

■ Requirement to go to sea for prolonged periods of time and in adverse weather conditions.

■Requirement to wear and maintain a uniform, safety footwear, and personal protective equipment to Canadian Coast Guard standards.

■ Willingness and ability to work overtime as required.

■ Willingness to be deployed within the Atlantic Region.

■ Compliance with the CCG Safety Management System and Standards.

■ Adherence to the Canadian Coast Guard Respiratory Protection Program.

■ For vessels assigned primarily to Search and Rescue operations, employees must be within 30 minutes response time to the vessel during assigned work period.

■ Valid Canadian Passport (for identified positions). For Canadian Permanent Residents: valid Permanent Resident card

■ Must be willing and able to travel by air, land or by sea.

Organizational Need

At Fisheries and Oceans Canada, diversity is our strength. In support of achieving a diverse workforce, selection may be limited to candidates who self-declare as a member of one of more of the following Employment Equity groups. If you are a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a visible minority, let us know by completing the Employment Equity (EE) section in your application.

Self-declaring. Because you count.

By completing the Employment Equity section in your application, you help create a Public Service that is diverse, inclusive and representative of identities, cultures, perspectives and experiences that make up Canada.

Important Messages

We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you are a person with a disability (e.g. a learning difficulty or a visual or auditory impairment) and require accommodation during any phase of the evaluation process (including the submission of your application), please notify the person listed in the ‘Contact Information’ section below to request an accommodation measure. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

Assessment accommodation

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Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Canadian Coast Guard                                            

Contact information:

Candice Reath

Candice.Reath@dfo-mpo.gc.ca