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Co-op Student, Actuarial (IT Focus)

@ WorkSafeBC

Richmond, British Columbia

Full-time
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Overview

WorkSafeBC is hiring an Actuarial Co-op student with an IT focus for an 8-month temporary role starting January 2027, extendable to 12 months. The student helps build an actuarial system by gathering requirements, understanding data, writing Python machine learning models and producing documentation. The role is hybrid, based in the Richmond, BC office, and unionized.

Responsibilities:

  • Gather business requirements for an actuarial system
  • Understand and work with actuarial data
  • Write Python code to create machine learning models
  • Generate project documentation

Requirements summary:

  • Enrolled in a post-secondary program with an IT focus
  • Python programming skills
  • Interest in machine learning and actuarial work

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Source type not verified · worksafebc

Employer posting date
2026-11-04
First seen by our source
2026-11-05
Source record updated
2026-11-05

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Job details

SeniorityEntry level
DepartmentData & analytics
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Travelair: none · ground: none
Work settingOffice
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
EducationBachelor’s degree (required)
Fields of studyIT, Actuarial science

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Job description

The Actuarial Services department of WorkSafeBC is looking for an Actuarial Co-op studentwith an IT focus to join our team to help us strive towards our vision.

The co-op student will assist the Actuarial Services department in a project of building an Actuarial system. The tasks would include, but are not limited to, gathering business requirements, understanding the data, writing Python codes to create machine learning models, and generating documentations.

This is an 8-month temporary opportunity starting in January 2027 with the possibility to extend to 12 months in total.

How you’ll make a difference: You’ll apply what you’ve learned in your post-secondary program to benefit workers and employers across B.C.

Where you’ll work

We serve the workers and employers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how we collaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.

This role is currently designated as having a hybrid work arrangement and is based in our Richmond, BC office.

This is a unionized role and is subject to the provisions of the Collective Agreement between the Workers’ Compensation Board of BC and the Compensation Employees’ Union.

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