Combat Engineer

Canadian Armed Forces; Gagetown, Mississauga; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization where you can make a real difference as a Combat Engineer. In this dynamic role, you will be responsible for constructing and maintaining critical infrastructure, ensuring troops can operate effectively in challenging environments. You will work closely with infantry and armored units, providing essential support in deployed operations. This position offers unique challenges and adventures, with opportunities for both part-time and full-time employment. Whether you choose the Regular Force or the Primary Reserve Force, you will gain valuable skills and experiences while serving your country.

Qualifications

• Must complete provincial requirements for Grade 10.
• Skills in construction, vehicle operation, and maintenance are essential.

Responsibilities

• Construct and maintain essential infrastructure like roads and bridges.
• Detect and dispose of mines and explosives in the field.
• Provide engineer communications and support on the battlefield.

Skills

Construction Skills

Vehicle Operation

Field Maintenance

Explosive Disposal

Water Purification

Communication Skills

Education

Completion of Grade 10

Tools

Heavy Equipment

Engineering Vehicles

Job description

Non-Commissioned Member | Full Time, Part Time

As a member of the military, Combat Engineers ensure that troops can live, move and fight on the battlefield. They perform construction and maintenance tasks, operate vehicles and equipment in support of engineer operations, and maintain field installations and facilities.

Combat Engineers have the following responsibilities:

• Construct and maintain roads, airfields, heliports, bridges, causeways, rafts, permanent and temporary buildings
• Construct field defences and obstacles
• Provide drinking water by testing, purifying and filtering local supplies and by constructing local distribution systems
• Detect and dispose of mines and bulk explosives
• Demolish roads and bridges, and lay minefields to prevent enemy movement
• Maintain and operate engineering equipment, including weapons, vehicles, heavy equipment and supplies
• Provide engineer communications on the battlefield

Work environment

Combat Engineers experience the unique adventures and challenges that come with work in the field. Qualified Combat Engineers may apply to Combat Diver Training.

If you choose a career in the Regular Force, upon completion of all required training, you will be assigned to your first base. While there is some flexibility regarding postings (relocations), accommodations can’t always be made, and therefore, you can likely expect to move at some point in your career. However, if you decide to join the Primary Reserve Force, you will do so through a specific Reserve unit. Outside of training, your chosen Reserve unit will be your workplace on a part-time basis, and you will not be obligated to relocate to a different base. As part of the Primary Reserve Force, you typically work one night per week and some weekends as a minimum with possibilities of full-time employment.

Combat engineers work closely with the Infantry and Armoured Corps in deployed operations. Engineers are the first on the ground to set up forward operating bases, where military members live and work to complete the mission at hand. When it’s time to move, combat engineers clear the road of improvised explosive devices and mines to make travel safer.

Combat engineers are jacks-of-all-trades. They do a little bit of everything and they do it really well. After trade training is completed, combat engineers are posted to one of several Combat Engineer or Engineer Support regiments stationed across Canada. They are assigned to a troop where they continue developing their skillset and learn how to drive various engineer vehicles.

The minimum required education to apply for this occupation is the completion of the provincial requirements for Grade 10 or Secondary 4 in Quebec.