Director, Program Integration

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting to the General Manager, Decommissioning and Environmental Remediation (D&ER), the Director, D&ER Program Integration, is responsible for integrating the planning and resources across the four decommissioning programs (NPD&WR-1 Reactor Decommissioning, NRU, G-1 & DP Reactor Decommissioning and Facilities Decommissioning & Environmental Remediation) to enable the successful delivery of the Environmental Remediation Management (ERM) mission.

The Director, D&ER Program Integration will also be responsible for the lead on commercial opportunities in the Decommissioning sector as outlined in ERM’s Commercial Strategy. By FY25/26, ERM will have been performing decommissioning and clean-up activities for 10 years under the GoCo and will have a workforce of several hundred CNL employees. ERM’s plan is to offer commercial environmental remediation management services to other entities both in Canada and internationally.

DUTIES

All Decommissioning & Environmental Remediation management share the same general responsibilities, which include:

• Enforcing management expectations regarding safe work practices, consequences of not following safe work practices, and performance management issues in their respective branches;
• Ensuring all activities are performed in accordance with the applicable CNL quality programs, applicable procedures, and Governing Documentation Indexes (GDI), through various activities such as review and approval of documents, oversight, self-assessment and audit processes, monitoring of ImpAct process, etc.;
• Stopping work, when it is deemed necessary; and
• Developing department goals and objectives and monitoring performance against these goals and objectives.

The Director, D&ER Program Integration is specifically responsible for:

• Providing direct oversight to the following branches/functions who will support the delivery of the four decommissioning programs: Pre-Project & Regulatory Planning, Program Management, Engineering and Commercial Ventures
• Coordinate the interface with the site support groups and the supply chain, as required, to secure the necessary resources to deliver decommissioning and environmental remediation activities across the four programs.
• Providing the planning and engineering oversight for decommissioning and environmental remediation work across the program to ensure that the various programs are setup for success.
• Lead the implementation of improvement initiatives across the D&ER program.
• Providing the Program Management oversight in the preparation of AECL reports, including budgets and funding requests, related to D&ER divisions, such as APWB, 5 and 10 year plans, etc.

• Establishing and maintaining the framework that will be followed to develop and administer the decommissioning and remediation schedules and budgets in support of the Annual Program of Work and Budget, 5 Year Integrated Strategy, and 10 Year Plan including achieving all milestones and deliverables in the Performance Evaluation and Measurement Plan (PEMP).

• Providing business leadership for a small portfolio of significant complexity/ risk to achieve long- term (3 to 5 years) and strategic results such as:

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• setting the strategy for the ERM Commercial Decommissioning portfolio
• providing leadership to deliver results in line with the portfolio’s goals
• anticipating future opportunities, identifying, developing and cultivating external demand and coordinating ERM’s commercial decommissioning efforts.
• Fostering relationship management activities with the ERM commercial partners
• Advising on commercial contract models to be employed on ERM commercial decommissioning jobs
• Overseeing decommissioning commercial projects to achieve business results
• Leading internal and external cross-portfolio strategic commercial decommissioning initiatives

• Providing detailed strategic and operational planning to ensure the legacy liability reductions are planned, resourced and executed in a timely and cost-effective manner.

• Developing, hiring, training, motivating and effectively utilizing Division staff to achieve Division objectives, including safe and compliant operation of a number of nuclear facilities, improved performance, and ensuring appropriate succession planning.
• Maintain effective interaction with union trades, subcontractors, clients, regulators, citizen groups and other stakeholders.

• Representing CNL in various national and international decommissioning networks.

• Supporting other elements of the ERM mission, as required.

• Performing other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

The Director, D&ER Program Integration has:

• Engineering/scientific or Managerial education and/or background, with expertise a minimum of 10 years in the nuclear field, and demonstrated program management, administration and leadership experience.

• The incumbent must have a strong grounding in the technical and regulatory dimensions of nuclear and conventional operations and program planning, and demonstrated ability to apply regulations and standards appropriately and communicate same.

• Must have demonstrated strong leadership skills, to support and articulate the organization’s vision/mission at all levels and have a proven ability to achieve results through others.

• Strong communication skills, both written and oral, to communicate with a variety of organizations and at a variety of levels.

• Demonstrated business sense and financial knowledge to adequately plan, manage and monitor Division budgets to meet financial objectives.

• Demonstrated managerial responsibilities of major projects, facilities or large programs.

• Experience and technical background sufficient to lead strategic planning, development and execution of best practices in facilities/nuclear facilities operations at the Chalk River Site.

• Must have a broad understanding of the organization to ensure coordination of work through appropriate groups, programs and activities.

• Ability to coordinate time with multiple issues and projects.

• Ability to foster a team environment by understanding and managing group dynamics.

• Good problem resolution skills.

• Strong human resources skills, ability to listen and address human resource issues, and motivate staff to achieve high levels of professionalism.

• Good understanding of change management concepts.

• Previous experience delivering presentations to large audiences and a good understanding of the requirements for communicating with oversight bodies, executive committees, elected officials, interest groups and the media

• Interfaces nationally and internationally as required.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $148,200.00-$221,300.00 per year

Additional pay:

• Bonus pay

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Extended health care
• Flexible schedule
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• Vision care
• Wellness program
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Chalk River, ON (preferred)

Application question(s):

• Have you demonstrated business sense and financial knowledge to adequately plan, manage and monitor division budgets to meet financial objectives.
• Proven experience with managerial responsibilities of major projects, facilities or large programs.
• Have you experience and technical background sufficient to lead strategic planning, development and execution of best practices in facilities/nuclear facilities operations?

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferred)

Experience:

• Nuclear Field: 10 years (required)
• Technical & Regulatory Dimensions of Nuclear: 8 years (preferred)
• Demonstrated Leadership: 8 years (preferred)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (preferred)

COVID-19 precaution(s):

• Remote interview process
• Personal protective equipment provided or required
• Social distancing guidelines in place
• Virtual meetings
• Sanitizing, disinfecting, or cleaning procedures in place