Posted 13 days ago
Vehicle technician
@ The Canadian Army
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Overview
The Canadian Army is hiring Vehicle Technicians for full-time or part-time service in the Canadian Armed Forces, maintaining, repairing and overhauling land vehicles. Duties include recovery, driving all vehicle types, and fighting as infantry in land operations when needed. Pay starts at $4,337 to $6,413 per month for Regular Force Direct Entry recruits, with health, dental and vision coverage, paid leave and a pension plan.
Pay:
$4,337–$6,413 a month
Responsibilities:
- Inspect, repair, overhaul and modify automotive equipment and components
- Repair, adjust and overhaul powered equipment
- Recover all types of land force vehicles
- Drive all types of vehicles, including tank transporters
- Fight as infantry in land operations when necessary
Requirements summary:
- Canadian citizen or permanent resident living in Canada
- At least 18 years old (17 with parental consent)
- Grade 10 Applied Math or Math 416 (CST 4 in Quebec)
- Grade 10 Science or equivalent
- College diploma preferred for Direct Entry
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
Job-board feed · jobillico
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-24
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-12
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-07
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Transportation & driving |
| Travel | ground: moderate |
| Work setting | Plant or factory, Vehicle, Outdoors |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical high · computer low |
| Languages | English |
| Education | High school (required), College diploma (preferred) |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Generous parental leave, Retirement plan, Relocation assistance, Signing bonus, Performance bonus, Paid training |
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The Canadian Army
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 14 |
Do you love working with and fixing vehicles? As a Vehicle Technician in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), you’ll be responsible for maintaining, repairing and overhauling land vehicles.
This position is available full-time or part-time, or as part of our paid education program.
Pay & Benefits
The CAF offers a range of benefits to ensure members are well supported. These include:
- Competitive salary starting from $4,337 - $6,413/month for new recruits who join the Regular Force under the Direct Entry plan
- New pay increases: earn more from the start
- Signing Bonus paid in installments at key service milestones
- Paid education and training opportunities
- Vacation, parental, and other types of paid leave
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Counseling, and relocation support services
- Pension plan
- Stimulating workplace that promotes respect, belonging, and work-life balance
Overview
The primary responsibilities of Vehicle Technicians are to:
- Inspect, repair, overhaul and modify all types of automotive equipment, systems and components
- Repair, adjust, overhaul and modify powered equipment
- Use and maintain common and specialized tools, basic garage hydraulic, mechanical and pneumatic equipment and oxyacetylene welding equipment
- Carry out the recovery of all types of vehicles used in the land forces, utilizing standard towing trucks and specialized tracked and wheeled recovery vehicles
- Drive all types of vehicles ranging from small support wheel vehicles to tank transporters
- Perform in land operations, when necessary, fight as infantry
You will find a comprehensive list of the primary duties on the forces.ca website.
This position is similar to the following:
- Industrial Truck Mechanic
- Automotive Brake and Front-end Mechanic
- Truck-Trailer Repair Specialist
- Tune-up Specialist
To be eligible to apply to the CAF, you must:
- Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident living in Canada;
- Be at least 18 years old (17 years old with parental consent), except:
- For the Paid Education programs, you may be 16 years old (with parental consent);
- For the Primary Reserve, you may be 16 years old (with parental consent) and must be enrolled as a full-time student;
- Have completed at least Grade 10 or Secondary IV in Québec (some jobs need higher levels of education).
Required Education
The minimum required education to apply for this position is the completion of provincial requirements for Grade 10 or Secondary IV in Quebec, including:
- Grade 10 Applied Math or Math 416 (CST 4 in Quebec); and
- Grade 10 Science or equivalent
Foreign education may be accepted.
Direct Entry Plan
The ideal candidate will already have a college diploma, the CAF will decide if your academic program matches the training criteria for this job and may place you directly into any required on-the-job training program following basic training.
Join the CAF
To learn more about becoming a Vehicle Technician, visit www.forces.ca, talk to a recruiter at a centre near you: www.forces.ca/en/find-a-recruiting-centre or call 1-800-856-8488.
Explore over 100 different career opportunities at www.forces.ca/en/careers.
Job Type: Full-time – Part-time
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