NAV Canada is hiring for these jobs across the country and some pay up to $201,000 a year
Air traffic controller positions are available! ✈️
NAV Canada headquarters.
NAV Canada is hiring for so many positions across the country.
There are a few high-paying jobs with salaries up to $201,000 a year!
That includes air traffic controller, flight service specialist, engineer, and software developer positions.
NAV Canada manages 18 million square kilometres of Canadian civil airspace.
It oversees air traffic through a network of control centres, air traffic control towers, flight service stations, maintenance centres, flight information centres and navigation aids.
So, here's what you need to know about NAV Canada jobs that are available now.
Air Traffic Controller
Salary: $56,899 to $59,550 during training and then $101,221 to $201,407
Company: NAV Canada
Location: Various locations in Canada
Who Should Apply: You must be 18 years of age or older, have a high school diploma or its equivalent, and be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
Also, you must be willing to relocate to any of the locations where air traffic controllers work.
Manager, ATS Learning Development
Company: NAV Canada
Location: Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Moncton and Gander
Who Should Apply: You need a bachelor's degree in education or a related field, or related experience with knowledge of evaluation, adult education, training system design, curriculum development, measurement and testing.
Three years of experience in operational training or management is required.
You also must have experience in:
- designing and developing curriculum, measurement and evaluation methodologies, and project management
- leading and facilitating groups with diverse backgrounds
- teaching and training adults
- designing and developing training programs for technical specialists
- training instructional and teaching staff
- project management and budgetary and financial management
- managing diverse multi-disciplinary teams
- managing corporate culture change
For this job, you need to have knowledge of:
- training evaluation processes and performance metrics techniques
- curriculum development
- the international air transportation industry
- NAV CANADA's goals, code of ethics and strategic plans, annual reports, and operational performance
- project management, budgetary management, and human resource management
- Microsoft Office and equipment used in the operational environment
- research methods
The closing date is August 27, 2025.
Manager, Major Tower — Terminal Operations
Company: NAV Canada
Location: Vancouver, BC
Who Should Apply: You need to have successfully completed high school.
Also, you must have experience in:
- a supervisor or manager role for an ATC project
- project management
- maintaining relationships with internal and external customers.
- financial budgeting, forecasting, and reporting experience
It's required that you have knowledge of:
- the certification for ATC airport/terminal operations
- operational policies, standards, procedures, and techniques
- the technical infrastructure of the Air Navigation System.
- aviation and industry trends to meet the changes and improvements to the automated environment
- human resources policies, procedures, and practices
- operational training needs and delivery
- ICAO and the body of rules and regulations, with emphasis on a designated FIR
You also need to be proficient with Microsoft programs like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
The closing date is August 25, 2025.
Surveillance Systems Engineer
Salary: $111,451 to $140,007
Company: NAV Canada
Location: Ottawa, ON
Who Should Apply: You must have graduated from a university with a degree in electrical, electronic, computer or aerospace engineering with eligibility for certification as a Professional Engineer in Canada.
Also, you need experience in:
- planning, designing and/or implementing hardware/software and/or electronic projects
- developing specifications, standards, and procedures.
- investigating, analyzing and resolving life cycle performance issues with surveillance systems such as Multilateration and Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast
It's required that you have knowledge of:
- engineering principles, practices, and technology in the field of ATC
- current and emerging technologies, including electromagnetic theory, RF propagation, signal processing and techniques applicable to detection systems
- software applications, including operating systems (Windows and LINUX), networking, and communication standards and protocols
- project management principles and techniques, system engineering process and practices, and business practices
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
The closing date is August 24, 2025.
Flight Service Specialist — Airport Advisory Services
Salary: $48,737 during training and then $78,503 to $123,712
Company: NAV Canada
Location: Various locations in Quebec
Who Should Apply: You must be 18 years of age or older, have a secondary school diploma or its equivalent, and be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
It's required that you can communicate in both French and English.
Also, you must be willing to relocate to any of the job locations after you successfully complete training.
Senior Enterprise Network Architect
Salary: $127,829 to $160,581
Company: NAV Canada
Location: Ottawa, ON
Who Should Apply: You need a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, or telecommunications.
A minimum of eight years of experience in network and telecommunications, including hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and integrating complex network infrastructure solutions in an enterprise environment, is required.
Also, you need three years of experience authoring technology standards, patterns, or blueprints, and designing and implementing complex network infrastructure solutions in a safety-critical environment.
It's required that you have knowledge of:
- market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory requirements, with the ability to adapt solutions
- spine-leaf architectures and zero trust frameworks.
- core routing protocols
- WAN overlay technologies and software-defined networks
- multicast routing principles
- designing scalable, secure, and high-performance network architectures, including cloud-based, on-premises, and hybrid clouds
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) frameworks, best practices, and techniques
- designing resilient, scalable, and fault-tolerant network architectures in a safety-critical environment
The closing date is August 24, 2025.
Manager, Air Traffic Operations — Airports
Company: NAV Canada
Location: Winnipeg, MB
Who Should Apply: You must have or previously have held an ATS license or certificate.
Also, you need at least 10 years of relevant experience in the industry with at least five years of related supervisory or management experience.
Experience in managing a budget and related financial processes, and experience leading people, processes, and information in an operational environment is required.
You must have knowledge of:
- air traffic management.
- air navigation system infrastructure
- remote site management and meeting tools
- operational policies, standards, procedures, and techniques
- operational systems and equipment
- human resources and labour relations policies and procedures
- ICAO and the body of rules and regulations, with emphasis on a designated FIR
- airline operators' organizational structure and operating procedures
The closing date is August 29, 2025.
C/ C++ Software Developer
Salary: $111,451 to $140,007
Company: NAV Canada
Location: Ottawa, ON
Who Should Apply: You need a degree from a university or community college with a specialization in computer, electrical engineering, systems engineering, computer science or information systems.
A minimum of five years of experience in C/C++ development is required.
You also must have knowledge of:
- modern safety-critical software development life cycle processes, practices and techniques, including Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, and DevOps
- traditional system development methodologies and techniques, including real-time, object-oriented analysis and design, database design, and data acquisition design
- software configuration management processes, practices, tools and techniques
- supported corporate technologies, including software, hardware, network and operating systems, and cloud-based development environments
- cybersecurity considerations in software and hardware solution development
- project management processes and procedures
The closing date is August 25, 2025.
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