Seaspan

Naval Systems · Sea Freight
Truth index B
50Open roles34 posted in 30 days+6 this week
$86kMedian advertised pay$68k – $94k+13% vs market
19 daysTime to fillmedian of 26 closed rolesmarket: 37 days
B 83/100Truth index
Lately:+6 roles posted this weekVancouver office: 25 → 45 roles in a month2 news stories in 90 daysFollow changes →

Facts

as of Nov 15, 2026

Seaspan is a Canadian marine company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia, that builds, repairs and refits ships and operates tug and barge, ferry and marine fuel services on the Pacific coast. Part of the Washington Companies group, it runs Vancouver Shipyards, Vancouver Drydock and Victoria Shipyards, which build vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard and Navy, along with Seaspan Marine, Seaspan Ferries, Seaspan Energy, Petrobulk and HaiSea Marine. It hires engineers and logistics support specialists, quality, finance, payroll and treasury staff, network technicians and systems analysts, and interns in steel, electrical and tug maintenance.

It is hiring: 50 open roles, 34 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 13% above the market estimate for the same roles.

Headquarters
North Vancouver, Canada
Employees
501-1000estimated range
Open roles
50 in 3 citiesAlion job postings
Official records
Wikidata Q2262344
Website
seaspan.com

As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 50 open roles at Seaspan. Seaspan is headquartered in North Vancouver, Canada. The median pay stated in its open roles is $85k, across 32 postings that state pay.

Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake

What the registers and the postings say about this employer.

Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
83/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices

Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.

Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 21 of open roles.

34Posted in 30 days68% of open roles are fresh
2%Remote roles1 of 50
1Roles in AI2% of open roles
3Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Closed for your country
None of 1 remote postings in the last year included United States
Canada75On site
Remote, from elsewhere1Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 1.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Seaspan19 days
Market, same roles37 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand87
Pay60
Your chance52
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 28This week
Open roles a week: 26 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
B
83 / 100Seaspan scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 90% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 19 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale90%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Industrial Engineering21
Early Careers21▲
Administrative9▼
Operations9▲
Finance8
Field & Service8▼
Newest roles
Intern, Data Engineering (4 Months)
In office · Internship · Vancouver
Manager, Cyber Security
$100k – $123k per year · Hybrid · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Vancouver
Network Technician I
$45k – $56k per year · In office · 2+ years exp · Vancouver
Systems Analyst III
$68k – $83k per year · Hybrid · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Vancouver
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
English48%
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 85%Master's Degree 15%
Experience asked: 5.1 years on average, in 34 postings. 20 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Equity3264%
Parental leave3060%
Life insurance3060%
Flexible schedule1122%
Hybrid work1020%
Professional development12%
Continuous learning12%
Growth opportunities12%
Contract type
Internship 15Part-Time 2
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation offered
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

Pays 13% above the market estimate for the same roles.

$86kMedianmarket estimate $75k
$68k – $94kTypical rangeUSD a year
$125kHighest paying roleLead Structural Naval Architect
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $75k
Middle16$74k$64k – $86k
Senior10$90k$85k – $97k
$0$38k$75k$113k$150k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year

Footprint

Hiring in 3 cities in 1 country.

3Cities
1Countries
VancouverBusiest site
VancouverFastest growing+20 in a month
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SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
North Vancouver CanadaHeadquarters0
Vancouver CanadaPlant / site45Industrial Engineering, Operations, Early Careers13%
Delta CanadaPlant / site4Industrial Engineering, Administrative, Field & Service0%
Victoria CanadaPlant / site3Education, Field & Service, Industrial Engineering0%
Montreal CanadaRegional office0
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Ranked #6 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.

#CompanyHQOpen rolesSize
1Saronic TechnologiesAustin, United States249501-1000
2Oceaneering InternationalHouston, United States1915000+
3SeatriumSingapore1365000+
4DamenGorinchem, Netherlands1245000+
5Royal IHCKinderdijk, Netherlands841001-5000
6SeaspanNorth Vancouver, Canada50501-1000
7James Fisher and SonsBarrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom351001-5000
8OSI Maritime SystemsBurnaby, Canada30501-1000
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)

Technologies named in job postings at Seaspan over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

29Technologies in use
36Postings analysed
69/100Stack modernity
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Full Seaspan tech stack29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site

Milestones

Sep 2
First executive search Chief Engineer
Aug 19
First sales or marketing role International Sales Manager
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press

Newsroom

Sep 102026
News · CTVNews
From new military investments to Arctic security and sovereignty, Canada is pouring billions into asserting its presence in the North. In the first instalment of a CTV News serie…
Aug 272026
Press release · PRNewswire
/PRNewswire/ -- Seaspan Corporation Pte. Ltd. (Seaspan), a global leader in marine transportation and the world
Aug 72026
News · YahooFinance
Seaspan Corporation Pte. Ltd. ("Seaspan"), a leading independent maritime asset owner and operator, is pleased to announce the successful issuance of a RMB 1.5 billion Panda Bond…
Jun 262026
News · YahooFinance
Seaspan Corporation Pte. Ltd. (Seaspan), leading independent maritime asset owner and operator, is pleased to announce the release of its 2025 Sustainability Report, outlining th…
Apr 5, 20252025
News · The Maritime Executive
Today, Seaspan Shipyards (Seaspan) cut steel on the Canadian Coast Guard's (CCG) new heavy polar icebreaker, signifying the start of construction on o...
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once