Douglas Point Project Manager

Are you driven by the opportunity to apply your management expertise to complex, high-impact projects? If so, we may have the perfect role for you. The Reactor Decommissioning (RD) team is tasked with overseeing the decommissioning, environmental remediation, and care and maintenance of the Douglas Point Waste Facility in Tiverton, Ontario.

As the DP Project Manager, you will play a key role in the planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting of this critical multi-year, high-risk project. You'll be responsible for ensuring that all commitments to the customer are met within the framework of the 10-year plan, while also contributing to the development of the Annual Plan of Work and Budget (APWB). If you're ready to take on a role that involves large-scale, high-value projects (typically over $15M annually) and deliver results that matter, this could be your next challenge.

Are you ready to make an impact?

What you will be doing!

• Ensuring safety is paramount in all activities.
• Managing a high-risk portfolio of projects of critical significance, characterized as multi-year in duration and involving a significant financial commitment (typically >$15M annually).
• Managing the collective and individual performance of a large project team (typically around 10 CNL staff) through the establishment of project-related performance objectives and the provision of both formal and informal performance feedback (appraisal) mentoring and guidance to ensure project(s) success.
• Defining roles and responsibilities, and managing performance, including discipline, appraisals, and merit allocations. Providing constructive feedback including disciplinary action if required or the termination/re-negotiation of external contracts.
• Authorizing project expenditures and procurement requisitions, e.g., purchase orders, invoices, and expense claims within limits of authority.
• Managing all aspects of project planning, budgeting, and resource allocation, through discussions with internal stakeholders to define the project's scope, deliverables, and timing using extensive knowledge of business and management principles. Builds and sustains project teams and sets priorities/clarifies goals.
• Working closely with the Site Operations Manager to ensure the safe execution of work at the DP site and manages the coordination of CNL staff and contractor personnel performing work, including sponsoring, lunchroom/change room facilities, training verification, Bruce Power support, and CNL field work oversight.
• Managing, coordinating, and administering the decommissioning project from the conceptual stages through planning, engineering, procurement, construction, start-up, and project closeout.
• Coordinating with other functional managers (Engineering, Safety & Licensing, Procurement, HSSE, QA) to ensure that functional resource requirements are planned in accordance with program delivery requirements and that program specific aspects of functional resources are implemented.
• Motivating project team staff to deliver quality results on time and on budget, and coaching/mentoring others for success.
• Participating in management team meetings related to project performance, priorities, and staffing.
• Securing external and internal resources to execute the project.
• Coordinating with Senior Management and subcontractors.
• Ensuring that applicable Company-wide procedures, operating instructions, and project-specific processes, procedures, and tools are applied to the planning, execution, and control of projects within the project and that their application is subject to periodic review for compliance and effectiveness.
• Monitoring and reporting the overall progress of projects within the program, conducting reviews to verify outputs are aligned with plans while ensuring that significant variances and trends are investigated.
• Possessing knowledge in Engineering, Safety and licensing, Procurement, QA, HSSE, and applicable business systems to ensure that program-specific aspects of functional resources are implemented.
• Establishing and maintaining a strong and effective Customer relationship.
• Forming a safe work environment and improving the safety culture in this organization.
• Assuring that all safety management programs are followed and appraising the overall nuclear safety on projects.
• Other duties as assigned by Management.

What we are looking for:

• Education
  • A degree from an accredited university in a discipline relevant to project management, engineering, business, or commerce.
• Experience
  
  • Five to Ten (5-10) years of construction and/or decommissioning relevant experience or equivalent
    
  • Years of progressively responsible project experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, in a senior or lead project capacity.
  • An excellent track record for leading large projects to successful conclusions.
    
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  • Achieved PMP or AACE certification (typically).
  • An established track record for project delivery and demonstrated leadership, regulatory and company requirements, Operations, Maintenance, HSSE, Construction Management, and Emergency Management.
  • Must be self-motivated and flexible relative to work assignments; possess excellent oral and written communication skills and can interface with peers from other company organizations and Senior Management.
  • Has extensive knowledge of processes related to strategic planning, human resources, and people management.
  • Has strong general management skills, including planning, budgeting, resourcing, time management, negotiation skills, contract management and administration, and progress reporting for an executive audience.
• Security Clearance Eligibility Required
  • Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3 years of verifiable history in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and/or the United Kingdom. CNL implements security screening in accordance with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's "Standard on Security Screening" and the "Policy on Government Security."

Why CNL?

Does working with a team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for a clean and secure world speak to you? We're reinventing ourselves to be the pace setters so we can lead the charge in solving the problems that matter, like building the next generation of clean nuclear and hydrogen energy solutions, developing new and better-targeted cancer treatments, and continuing to lead the world in environmental remediation.

We offer a complete total rewards package :

• Paid time off (vacation, sick, floater & personal);
• Benefits effective day one, that's right, no waiting period;
• Tuition support
• and a pension!

Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?

• Clean energy for today and tomorrow.
• Restore and protect the Environment.
• Contribute to the health of Canadians.

Location:

CNL's Douglas Point Prototype Reactor (which has now entered the dismantling phase of decommissioning ETA 2070) is located on the Bruce Power site in Bruce County on the east shore of Lake Huron in the Province of Ontario, near the municipality of Kincardine, 2.5 hours north and west of Toronto. The area has thriving lakeside downtown shops and dining options, renowned festivals and events, recreational programming, and an agricultural community, and you'll understand how enticing it is to be a part of this wonderful community.

CNL is committed to providing an atmosphere free from barriers that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion in achieving our mission. CNL welcomes and celebrates employees, stakeholders, and partners of all racial, cultural, and ethnic identities. Read here for more on our DE&I Commitment.

CNL also supports a workplace environment and corporate culture built on our Core Values: Respect, Teamwork, Accountability, Safety, Integrity, and Excellence. These values encourage equitable employment practices and career prospects inclusive of accommodations for all employees.

CNL is committed to being an equal-opportunity employer. If you require accommodation measures during any phase of the hiring process, please indicate via our ATS when applying. All information received regarding accommodation requests will be kept confidential.

CNL recognizes and acknowledges that the Douglas Point site is located within the Traditional Territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON), and the harvesting areas of the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) and the Historic Saugeen Métis (HSM).

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