Healthcare Technician, Medical Technologist & Lab Technician

Public Health Agency of Canada
- National Microbiology Laboratory Closing date:

July 30, 2026 - 23:59, Pacific Time

Selection process number
26-AHS-NMLB-EA-NCR-363541

Salary
$71,741 to $90,184

Level
EG-04

Who can apply
Persons residing in Canada, and Canadian citizens and Permanent residents abroad.

Work environment
The Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) provides scientific expertise and laboratory capacity for infectious disease monitoring, detection, investigation and outbreak response to support national and international public health action. NML strives to be the employer of choice for Canadian and international scientific and non-scientific staff. Our employees contribute leadership, ingenuity, expertise and innovation to safeguard the health of Canadians and the global community

Due to the nature of the work and operational requirements, duties must be performed on-site.
Remote work or telework is not supported for this role.

Intent of the process
The intent of this selection process is to create a pool of qualified candidates from which future permanent and/or temporary vacancies may be filled within the Public Health Agency of Canada.

The positions being staffed will be located in Winnipeg, MB, Guelph, ON and St Hyacinthe, QC.

Positions to be filled
1

Secret or Reliability security clearance (depending on the position)
Medical clearance (depending on the position)

• Must be available during core hours.
• Willingness and ability to occasionally work overtime.
• Willingness and ability to assist, mobilize, or deploy to fulfil operational requirements including outbreak and emergency laboratory responses.
• Willingness and ability to work with human and animal laboratory specimens.
• Willingness and ability to work with infectious agents and/or toxic chemicals.

Your application must clearly explain how you meet the following

Essential

Education:

Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology, Virology, Parasitology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Genetics, Molecular biology, Bioinformatics or Biology or other related discipline;
or
Current active registration with the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMLS) as a general Medical Laboratory Technologist (MLT) and current active provincial MLT registration in the province in which the position is located, or pending registration, while awaiting the Medical Laboratory Sciences National Exam results. Documentation of equivalent standing within the relevant jurisdiction will be considered
or
An acceptable combination of education, training and experience with specialization in science relevant to human health.

Essential Experiance

• Experience working within a scientific laboratory setting.
• Experience in the collation, review and analysis of data and results generated from laboratory testing or research.
• Experience operating, troubleshooting, or maintaining scientific equipment and its related software (where applicable).
• Experience in performing routine biological techniques or methods in one or more of the following disciplines;
  Microbiology (bacteriology, virology, parasitology or mycology), cell biology or molecular biology.
• Experience in good laboratory practices including safe handling of infectious material

Applied / assessed at a later date

Personal Suitability

• Demonstrating integrity and respect
• Thinking things through
• Working effectively with others
• Showing initiative and being action-oriented
• Written and oral communication

Abilities

• Ability to plan, organize and manage multiple simultaneous tasks.
• Ability to plan experiments, compile data and interpret results.
• Ability to troubleshoot laboratory procedures or techniques.

Applied / assessed at a later date

May be applied / assessed at a later date

Asset Experience

• Experience in General laboratory techniques and applications
• Experience in Field studies
• Experience in Diagnostic testing/applications
• Experience in Molecular biology and/or immunology
• Experience in Omics (Genomics, Proteomics Or Metabolomics)
• Experience in Bioinformatics or computational biology
• Experience in Quality control/Quality management systems

Depending on the position being staffed, the following criteria may be applied as essential requirements.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in microbiology (virology, bacteriology, mycology or parasitology)
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in cell biology
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in immunology
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in bioinformatics
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in biochemistry
• Knowledge of the theories, current principles, techniques or procedures used in molecular biology

Organizational needs
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