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Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? Can you see yourself providing technical leadership and managing a large engineering department with employees working in several disciplines? Do you like to mentor team members regarding the technical aspects of reliability engineering and navigate relationships among work organizations? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you! Our Chalk River location is looking for a Manager of Equipment. Apply today!

What will you be doing!

• Ensuring safety in all activities.
• Engineering resources management:
  • Providing technical leadership and managing a large engineering department with employees performing work in several disciplines, supporting the execution of projects and activities for Equipment Reliability and Preventive Maintenance.
  • Ensuring utilization targets for all staff are met to demonstrate maximum efficiency and effectiveness of resources.
  • Developing and maintaining core knowledge and skills based on the future needs of projects and the operation of the Chalk River Laboratories (CRL) infrastructure, in alignment with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) goals. This includes ensuring the development and support of staff training in the various disciplines, hiring new staff, and managing productivity and performance.
• Equipment Reliability:
  • Providing mentorship to team members with respect to the technical aspects of reliability engineering and navigating relationships among work organizations.
  • Synergizing with other engineering managers, project managers, project leads, project engineers, and key staff to deliver reliability engineering services.
  • Assessing equipment and systems to assign maintenance categories, enabling Reliability Centred Maintenance Fundamentals.
  • Developing Preventive Maintenance Technical Basis for maintenance category 1 equipment, aligning with reliability-centred maintenance.
  • Acting as a liaison with equipment owners and educating them on the maintenance program and Reliability Centred Maintenance fundamentals for improved system reliability.
  • Planning of work for the upcoming year(s).
  • Reporting monthly progress for internal and external use (presenting to the regulator).
  • Supporting and developing assessments such as Utility Vulnerability Assessment, 10-Year plan reports and presentations.
  • Acting as a liaison with the regulator and external organizations, including the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and the Real Property Institute of Canada (RPIC).
  • Supporting the preparation of System Performance Monitoring Plans (SPMP) and System Health Reports (SHR).
• Preventive Maintenance:
  • Executing Integrated Work Control includes completing walk-downs, completing hazard screening check sheets, job hazard analysis, and updating procedures and safety with the hazard control.
  • Executing Stock Code Requests, including finding consumable parts, request entries, and inventory numbers.
  • Supporting asset work: Asset Packages, entry, and disposition of assets in Aventis.
  • Supporting new builds through effective communication with project management to ensure the proper implementation of preventive maintenance for new equipment in new buildings.
  • Supporting the development of strategic plans with facility representatives and ensuring improved efficiency and dependability of maintenance services.
  • Synergizing with other key staff to ensure compliance with Site License Conditions, Conduct of Maintenance, Conduct of Operations procedures series, Maintenance Program requirements, Equipment Reliability Program Requirements, Audit Plan requirements, and monitoring of the results of the audit plan.
  • Interfacing with Facility Representatives (Facility Authority, Manager, and Superintendent) and complementary service organizations (Site Maintenance, other Engineering branches, Asset Management, and Procurement) and ensuring alignment of business objectives and services.
• Developing future managers through mentoring and the transfer of skills and knowledge.
• Developing and maintaining good internal and external relationships to promote teamwork and collaboration.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

• Education
  • A university or college degree from an institution of advanced technology of a recognized standing in engineering, architecture, construction, planning, geography, or a related field.
• Experience
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience with facility operations, system maintenance, configuration management, design processes, equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, system health and project management.
  • A strong background in Engineering with a broad knowledge of the tools and capabilities required in a Maintenance environment to assess risk and performance in the group's day-to-day activities.
  • Experience and ability to identify and quantify risks and develop and execute mitigation plans.
  • Financial understanding is required to review and understand the financial performance of a complex organization, to understand business cases from a financial basis, and to ensure that the division operates within budget.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  • Broad knowledge of nuclear technology and the Canadian nuclear industry.
  • Knowledge and experience working in multi-disciplinary teams supporting engineering services and consistently showing good technical and organizational decision-making.
  • Ability to negotiate acceptable timelines and actions for the resolution of Division issues.
  • Must have exceptional and effective written and oral communication skills.
    • Audiences include CNSC staff, international regulatory bodies, and agencies, CNL customers and stakeholders, engineering suppliers, external safety consultants, COG, and Industry Maintenance Managers.
  • A high level of communication with: Vice Presidents, Directors, CNL support groups (QA, Commercial, IT, HR, Finance, Training, Communications, etc.), Chief Engineer, Chief Regulatory Officer, Chief Nuclear Officer, Safety Review Committee, Facility Authorities, Facility Managers, Managers across Nuclear Laboratories, direct reports, and staff.
• Security Clearance Eligibility Required
  • Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3-5 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 pacesetters 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 Chalk River laboratory is nestled in the Ottawa Valley and affords our employees an environmentally pristine area with extensive forests, hills, and numerous small lakes. These support a variety of wildlife typical to the southern edge of the Canadian Shield. Many surrounding towns, such as Pembroke, Petawawa, and Deep River, provide unparalleled outdoor adventures at your doorstep!

This role is a fully onsite role that requires the employee to primarily work at CNL’s Chalk River Laboratory site, with only occasional opportunities to work remotely, if desired by the employee. CNL’s Chalk River laboratory is nestled in the Ottawa Valley and affords our employees an area that is environmentally pristine with extensive forests, hills and numerous small lakes, all of which support a variety of wildlife typical to the southern edge of the Canadian Shield. Many surrounding towns, such as Pembroke, Petawawa and Deep River, provide you with unparalleled outdoor adventures at your doorstep!

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. Please 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, including 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.

The Chalk River Laboratories site is located on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. As an organization, CNL recognizes and appreciates their historic connection to this place. CNL also recognizes the contributions that First Nations, Métis, Inuit and other Indigenous Peoples have made, both in shaping and strengthening this community in particular, and this province and country as a whole.

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