Reactor Component Engineering Manager

Your role

Project Execution:

• Approves technical documents - including analyses, design changes, inspection plans, and fitness‑for‑service evaluations - prepared by staff within the fuel channel engineering team.
• Plans and executes engineering work consistent with nuclear quality, cost, and schedule requirements, ensuring alignment with CSA, CNSC, and internal governance.
• Removes barriers that could impact deliverables, collaborating with staff to identify technical solutions, risk mitigations, and optimization opportunities specific to fuel channel performance and reliability.
• Works with marketing, business development, and corporate groups to maintain and enhance client relationships, particularly with utilities and operators of CANDU or similar reactor technologies.
• Ensures all engineering activities comply with applicable Engineering and Quality Assurance procedures, including those governing safety ‑ critical systems.
• Ensures all design and assessment work is executed effectively, with appropriate peer reviews, independent verifications, and design authority engagement to meet project and regulatory requirements.
• Fosters a collaborative team environment within Engineering and with internal and external stakeholders, including utilities, OEMs, regulators, and inspection service providers.
• Oversees cost, timeliness, quality, and technical adequacy of fuel channel engineering deliverables through structured reviews and performance evaluations.
• Works with Project Management to plan work, allocate resources, assign tasks, and report progress against deliverables.
• Implements planning, scheduling, and tracking of engineering activities, commitments, costs, and labor resources for fuel channel programs.
• Interfaces with clients to deliver engineering products - such as channel assessment reports, tooling requirements, inspection data interpretations, and lifecycle management strategies - in accordance with customer specifications.
• Establishes the technical approach for fuel channel engineering projects, ensuring designs and assessments satisfy functional, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Manages configuration control of design documents, models, and assessment tools in accordance with approved procedures.
• Ensures security access requirements, including need‑to‑know protocols, are implemented on all projects involving sensitive nuclear information.

Leadership:

• Leads a team specializing in reactor component engineering or closely related reactor core disciplines.
• Conduct performance reviews, set objectives, and support staff development and succession planning.
• Manages human resources issues within the team, ensuring timely and effective resolution.
• Provides day‑to‑day interpretation and application of negotiated agreements with bargaining agents as they relate to employee rights, obligations, and working conditions.
• Create and sustain a collaborative, accountable, and supportive team environment with strong safety culture.

Talent & Capability Development:

• Maintains a capability profile of the team, including individual experience in fuel channel design, inspection, analysis, and lifecycle management.
• Ensures the team maintains an appropriate combination of technical skills - such as fracture mechanics, materials science, inspection technology, and nuclear safety analysis - to meet forecasted project needs.
• Identifies gaps in team size or technical capability and supports plans to close those gaps through hiring, training, development, or strategic resourcing.
• Mentors, coaches, and develops the team, fostering knowledge transfer and a strong technical community within the fuel channel discipline.
• Identify training and qualification needs for the team and ensure nuclear ‑ specific training and certifications remain current.