Through the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS), the Government of Canada has embarked on one of the largest procurement projects since the Second World War. The NSS is a nation-building effort to create a sustainable Canadian shipbuilding industry, secure long-term job opportunities and build the next generation of ships for the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy. Through its NSS–related work, Seaspan Shipyards is owning the redevelopment of our domestic shipbuilding industry on the West Coast and delivering on the promise of ships built in Canada, by Canadians.
The Intern, BTS Business Analyst works exclusively with business system related projects, which will vary in size, duration and complexity. Using a variety of data sources, facilitation and interview techniques, the Business Analyst will guide business stakeholders through the discovery, identification and documentation of business outcomes, process design, and business & functional requirements for new systems or functionality.
As a service-oriented leader and an expert communicator, the Business Analyst Intern will have a strong bias for detail, team collaboration and implementing systems that ensure strong user adoption and business outcomes.
Note: Due to business needs, this position is required to be fully on-site based at 889 Harbourside Drive, North Vancouver.
What you’ll do
- Develop sustainable, repeatable and quantifiable business process improvements.
- Collect and analyze process data to initiate, develop and recommend business practices and procedures that focus on increased productivity, reduced cost and enhanced customer service.
- Gather, analyze, and document business, functional, reporting and technical requirements using techniques such as interviews, site visits, surveys, document analysis, workshops, process analysis.
- Facilitate the chartering of new initiatives by working with business leaders to help them articulate their objectives and desired business outcomes, and to define scope.
- Develop artifacts such as Business Requirements Document, Functional Requirements, Technical Requirements, Process Flow Diagrams, Gap Analysis, and Use Cases to effectively convey requirements.
- Work with Business Stakeholders, Operations Teams, Technical SMEs, External Vendors and Leadership to ensure that the solution provided align with the business requirements and business objectives.
- Perform process and gap analysis to ensure compatibility and interoperability of processes and systems.
- Manage relationships with stakeholders to achieve project goals and provide continued best practice support to leaders to ensure successful adaptation of the initiative.
- Support the user acceptance testing and facilitate the feedback to External Vendor as part of the iterative solution development process.
- Coordinate and perform in-depth tests, including end-user reviews, for modified and new systems, and other post-implementation support.
- Provide orientation and inputs into process and system training material.
- Perform continued evaluations of end user adoption and work with end users to identify opportunities for business process improvements.
What you’ll bring
- Enrollment in a Computer Science or Business Administration degree program.
- Good communication with strength in collaboration and relationship building, maintains a healthy, open and trusting workplace, with integrity and accountability.
- A passion for service excellence and business enablement, working to develop skills that will deliver on work products that provide measurable business benefit.
- A keen interest in how business works; continually develops business acumen through learning and training.
- An interest and some exposure to Organizational Change Management, Project Management and Process Improvement principles.
- A natural and self-driven team player who fosters a friendly, team-oriented workplace where employees work safely and productively together.
Why you’ll love working here
- A supportive learning environment, great team culture and hands-on experience and training.
- Opportunity to grow your career and connect with like-minded students.
- Parking is included and to assist those that are using transit, we operate a complimentary shuttle bus Monday through Friday with various pick up and drop off points around North Vancouver.
We require a full-time commitment Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week with an hourly rate of $26.00/hour.
Start Date of Internship: Monday, September 8 th , 2025.
End Date of Internship: Friday, May 1 st , 2026 (8-Months).
Please submit your Resume, Cover Letter and Academic Transcript as one PDF document.
Application Closing Date: Sunday, June 22 nd , 2025 at 11:59pm PST.
Please note: if we receive a large volume of applications, we may close this posting ahead of the closing date, therefore, we recommend applying early. Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.
To learn more about our InternSHIP Program, visit our website: www.seaspan.com/internships-at-seaspan/
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