Project Operations Lead

Your role

Project Planning, Scope Definition and Execution:

• Develop project scope, WBS, deliverables, resource plans, estimates, and schedules in compliance with governing contract documents, quality requirements, and customer expectations.
• Develop and implement project execution plans and monitor execution through structured reporting to clients, project leadership, and senior management.
• Coordinate interfaces across engineering, procurement, project controls, commercial, construction, customers, suppliers, and partner organizations.
• Support program initiatives as assigned, including process improvements, tool enhancements, onboarding and communications, workshop coordination, and operational support activities.

Project Governance, Reporting and Commitments Management:

• Implement and maintain project governance processes, reporting structures, dashboards, and management review routines.
• Track and monitor key project commitments, deliverables, milestones, actions, decisions, risks, issues, and obligations.
• Maintain trackers and dashboards, identify emerging slippages, and escalate risks or issues through defined governance channels.
• Facilitate recurring coordination meetings, including agenda development, minutes, action logs, and follow-up to closure.
• Prepare routine status updates and summary reports for internal and external stakeholders.

Scoping Database, Lessons Learned and Operational Excellence:

• Own and maintain project databases, scope tracking tools, and operational reporting systems, ensuring data quality, configuration control, traceability, and timely reporting.
• Manage OPEX and lessons learned collection processes, including intake, screening, categorization, database logging, action tracking, and periodic reporting for management review.
• Support development of metrics, key performance indicators, benchmarking, and improvement plans to measure initiative effectiveness.
• Drive continuous improvement opportunities and support disciplined knowledge management across assigned initiatives.

Contract, Commercial and Supply Chain Management:

• Support contract development and negotiations, including scope and change control, requirements management, subcontractor and supplier management, and governance of flow-down requirements.
• Support procurement and subcontract management activities, including subcontractor and supplier oversight and supply chain strategies aligned with risk, quality, schedule, budget, and performance requirements.
• Manage assigned small-value subcontracts under the direction of the Project Manager, including scope of work definition, coordination with Procurement and Commercial, performance monitoring, deliverable tracking, and invoice verification.
• Support resolution of commercial issues and maintain effective working relationships with suppliers, subcontractors, clients, and partner organizations.

Cost, Schedule, Project Controls and Performance Reporting:

• Apply appropriate KPIs to monitor project health and performance and establish rigorous reporting protocols that meet contract requirements, corporate standards, and project-specific oversight requirements.
• Apply project controls methodologies related to planning and scheduling, baseline management, cost control, cost/revenue forecasting, resource management, and performance reporting.
• Support earned value management, critical path schedule monitoring, forecasting, and variance analysis as appropriate.
• Support resource forecasting activities, including information gathering, analysis, and reporting to project leadership.

Risk and Change Management:

• Support risk identification, analysis, mitigation planning, monitoring, and reporting in accordance with corporate standards and industry best practices.
• Support quantitative risk analysis where required, including Monte Carlo methodology and contingency drawdown curves.
• Support change control activities by gathering inputs, documenting impacts, coordinating approvals, and tracking implementation of approved changes.
• Maintain visibility of risks, issues, and changes to support timely management decision-making.

People Leadership and Resource Management:

• Provide leadership and coordination to multidisciplinary project teams and support effective collaboration across functional groups.
• Make effective decisions and/or recommendations regarding project resourcing requirements.
• Mentor junior project personnel and support professional development, onboarding, and knowledge transfer activities.
• Promote a collaborative, accountable, and results-oriented team environment.

Safety, Quality and Regulatory Compliance:

• Comply with all aspects of nuclear and industrial safety, including corporate and customer safety programs, required training, corrective action programs, and performance standards.
• Promote a safety-first mindset and ensure work and deliverables align with quality assurance requirements, applicable procedures, and client expectations.
• Ensure project activities are performed in accordance with corporate standards for ethical compliance, cybersecurity, import/export regulations, intellectual property protection, and security clearance protocols.
• Support corrective action and continuous improvement processes as required.

Work Environment and Interfaces:

• Required interfaces include Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Project Controls, Commercial, customers, suppliers, partners, senior executives, and technical/functional managers.
• Various work locations may include client sites, client offices, partner locations, supplier facilities, and Candu offices.
• Travel within Ontario and to other project or stakeholder locations may be required.