Director, Engineering
- Mississauga, Pickering
- Nuclear
Director, Engineering
AtkinsRéalis is one of Canada's largest private sector nuclear engineering groups. We have been providing a wide range of services to the nuclear industry in Canada and around the world since for more than 60 years. We are proud to be the steward of Canadian CANDU nuclear technology.
The Engineering Director will play a pivotal role in the development and implementation of Small Modular Reactor (SMR) projects. This position involves overseeing engineering activities, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and driving innovation in plant design and construction. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in nuclear engineering, project management, and team leadership.
Location – Mississauga, ON.
Your role within the team:
Leadership and Management:
- Assist the Engineering Director in leading the engineering team, providing guidance, mentorship, and support.
- Oversee the day-to-day engineering operations, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.
- Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Provide leadership and coaching to management roles and senior professional staff executing commercial and internal work packages and projects.
- Be accountable for the performance and results of multiple related teams.
Project Oversight:
- Manage the design, development, and implementation of SMR projects.
- Ensure all engineering activities comply with regulatory standards and safety protocols.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including manufacturing, construction, and operations, to ensure seamless project execution.
Technical Expertise:
- Provide technical leadership in the design and optimization of SMRs.
- Stay updated with the latest advancements in nuclear technology and integrate new innovations into project designs.
- Conduct technical reviews and assessments to ensure the highest standards of quality and safety.
Regulatory Compliance:
- Ensure all engineering activities adhere to local, national, and international regulatory requirements.
- Liaise with regulatory bodies to obtain necessary approvals and certifications.
- Develop and implement quality assurance and control processes.
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Communicate project progress and technical details to stakeholders, including senior management, clients, and regulatory authorities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to support project goals.
Resourcing:
- Forecast resource demands for the assigned work scope, including skills, capabilities, and durations.
- Define the structure of the project team for their scope of accountability, including reporting relationships.
- Hire and release staff, secondees, and contractors from the team as required.
- Negotiate with other Engineering Directors to optimize the use of available staff.
- Provide oversight for onboarding of new staff and training.
- Ensure qualified and appropriate staff are working on the project and are assigned work within their experience and skills.
Training and Mentorship:
- Organize and direct the development of project-specific training courses as necessary.
- Mentor and/or organize mentoring of staff to maintain and improve staff performance and capabilities.
- Ensure all project training and qualification records are up-to-date, and required training and qualifications are completed/updated on time.
Project Objectives and KPI:
- Help staff set SMART objectives aligned with project demands.
- Track, analyze, and develop/execute plans to improve project targeted Key Performance Indicators and objectives.
Staff Performance and Performance Reviews:
- Drive accountability by providing clear expectations and performance measures, meaningful feedback, recognizing and rewarding achievements, and taking disciplinary steps when warranted.
- Develop and implement corrective measures to improve the performance of individuals.
- Provide feedback and effective recommendations into functional hire/fire processes.
- Manage project-related human resource issues and effectively resolve work performance problems as they relate to the project, working as appropriate with Functional Engineering.
- Provide day-to-day interpretation and application of the negotiated agreements with bargaining agents as they affect the rights, obligations, and working conditions of employees.
Proposals:
- Participate in the preparation of commercial and internal proposals and approve the technical content of proposals prepared under their direction.
Project Execution:
- Provide overall technical direction for engineering work per the approved project scope and schedule.
- Support the Project Director in execution of the day-to-day oversight activities.
- Be responsible for meeting the QA program requirements and change control process.
- Ensure that the deliverables from their team meet customer requirements specified in the contract and overall alignment with nuclear codes and standards.
- Manage the overall project engineering change control process, ensuring the design is defined, controlled, verified, and that all design inputs and interfaces are complete, substantiated, and verified, and its configuration managed.
- Be responsible for technical integration and interface control both within the projects across the various disciplines involved, and with the client.
- Provide guidance, technical insights, supervision, and feedback to the Technical Managers that are part of their team.
- Be responsible for technical deliverables budget, schedule, and quality.
- Ensure that the deliverables meet customer requirements specified in the contract and overall alignment with nuclear codes and standards.
- Review and approve key technical documentation for the project, or phase of the project.
- Monitor the technical quality of engineering deliverables for the project, or phase of the project.
- Identify and propose improvements in the areas of the project – both proactively and in response to customer requirements.
- Ensure security access requirements, including need-to-know, are implemented on a project.
- Interface with the Procurement Manager, Manufacturing Manager, Construction Manager, and Site Engineering Manager for all site engineering matters in the project, or phase of the project, as applicable.
- Liaise with the Project Director and senior executives regarding the technical quality of subcontracted engineering services.
- Liaise with external client engineering organization at the request of the Project Director regarding technical matters.
- Communicate engineering issues and status to Senior Management.
- Ensure technical integration between all project stakeholders.
Why choose AtkinsRéalis as an employer?
Because we offer:
- The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
- An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
- A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
- Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
- A work environment focused on health and safety.
The ideal candidate:
- Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field (master’s or Ph.D. preferred).
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in nuclear engineering, with a focus on design and project management.
- P.Eng registration with PEO or equivalent required.
- Highly motivated and results oriented self-starter with strong engineering and people management skills and experience.
- Proven leadership experience in managing engineering teams and large-scale projects.
- Experience with supervision, oversight and plant site maintenance resulting in increased efficiencies and the customization of specialized teams to enhance overall performance.
- In-depth knowledge of SMR technology and regulatory requirements.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Demonstrated knowledge of INPO / WANO fundamentals and practices.
- Extensive exposure and experience with human performance tools for utilities to reduce the human error rate and subsequent lost generation and equipment damage.
- Comprehensive experience with the safety and operational aspects of commercial reactors.
- Training experience to develop and execute increased process improvements through the development of programs to address the improvement of work control and efficiency practices.
- Highly developed safety background with extensive knowledge of nuclear safety practices and requirements through site specific experience and operations focus.
- Uses visionary qualities to look ahead and act on new opportunities and in full support of client goals.
- Thinks with a global perspective in the internal and external environment seeking to provide enhanced value to clients.
- Establishes a strong presence and visibility as a senior leader.
- People oriented with strong business acumen and an innate ability to establish a high degree of credibility with staff and clients.
- Strong people leader who can motivate and engage a team.
- Implements change, increases productivity, and enhances performance in response to budget parameters and client demands.
- Uses strong business, technical, financial and logistical skills, combined with the ability to identify areas of opportunity to make bottom-line-oriented decisions that improve results and support long and short-term planning.
- Excellent written and verbal communicator with superior interpersonal and relationship management skills.
- Strong negotiator, complex problem solver, influencer and decision maker.
Are you up for this challenge? Apply today and join our team to help engineer a Better Future for our Planet and its People.
At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds, and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion, or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
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Appropriate accommodations will be provided upon request throughout the recruitment and hiring process as required by Company policy and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).
Successful applicants will be notified about AtkinsRéalis’s accommodation policies at the time the employment offer is extended, and the information will be shared with new personnel during the onboarding process.
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