Human Performance Officer

Are you looking for a leadership role where you can shape how an organization operates, manages risk, and achieves excellence? Can you see yourself driving enterprise-wide governance, performance, and continuous improvement initiatives that support safe, secure, and efficient operations? If you answered yes, this may be the job for you. Apply today! Our Chalk River location is looking for a Director, Governance and Controls to provide strategic leadership for CNL's management system, governance frameworks, safeguards management, nuclear material accountability, human performance, and organizational effectiveness programs.

What you will be doing!

• Developing and delivering Human Performance training.
• Preparing and publishing human performance articles to promote organizational learning and share industry practices.
• Preparing and publishing monthly Safety Culture Lessons Learned package and other targeted information materials.
• Preparing program documents as required, including standards, reports, and procedures.
• Implementing, executing, and evaluating event-free tools, benchmarking, and improvement programs.
• Conducting research and data gathering on human performance issues using the Internet and industry contacts.
• Collaborating with other organizational groups to achieve common human performance-related objectives.
• Observing work and reinforcing good human performance traits.
• Supporting managers and supervisors as they work with staff to improve human performance.
• Providing guidance and mentoring managers and staff as required to improve performance.
• Working with OPEX to monitor and analyze trend data on safety culture to identify precursors to problems and use information to persuade and influence managers to
  develop actions for improvements.
• Overseeing and analyzing data from Observation and Coaching.
• Formulating, coordinating, and facilitating human performance improvement strategies to address departmental issues.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.
  

What we are looking for:

• Education
  • A university degree or College diploma in , operations, engineering, training, and/or education with a minimum of two years of directly relevant experience in an industrial or research setting.
• Experience
  • A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in a technical role, working in an industrial or research environment, and demonstrating the ability to assume the responsibilities described.
  • Experience in designing and developing technical, practical, and classroom or computer-based training on systems and equipment in a technical/industrial environment.
  • Experience working in an environment with high levels of external regulation (CNSC, TSSA, ESDC, etc.)
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  • Promote and demonstrate CNL’S safety culture and quality commitment both internally and externally.
  • Ability to convert complex technical data and information into terms understandable by CNL’s many diverse stakeholders.
  • High degree of initiative, drive and innovation with the objective to develop informed and positive advocates for safety.
  • Influencing and mentoring skills.
  • Relationship-building skills enabling effective working partnerships with team members, internal customers and other professional organizations.
  • Ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbal, with all levels of the company hierarchy.
• Security Clearance Eligibility Required
  • Level 2 Secret requires a minimum of 7 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.”
    

Working Conditions:

• Working schedule: Five (5) days per week, seven and a half (7.5) hours per day for a thirty-seven and a half (37.5) hour work week.

Why CNL?

Does the idea of working with a dynamic team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for a clean and secure world excite you? At CNL, we’re reinventing ourselves to be industry leaders—pioneering solutions to the problems that matter most.

From building the next generation of clean nuclear and hydrogen energy technologies, to developing targeted cancer treatments, to continuing our global leadership in environmental remediation—we are driven by impact, innovation, and purpose.

What We Offer: A Total Rewards Package

We believe in taking care of our people. Here’s what you can expect as part of our team:

• Paid time off: vacation, sick, personal, and floater days
• Benefits effective Day One – no waiting period
• Tuition support to help you keep learning and growing
• A defined-benefit pension plan or a defined-contribution pension plan, depending on your employee group, to support your long‑term financial security

Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?

• Delivering clean energy for today and tomorrow
• Restoring and protecting the environment
• Contributing to the health of Canadians

If so, you’ll feel right at home at CNL!

Location: Onsite

Located in the heart of the Ottawa Valley, our Chalk River site offers a beautiful natural setting with forests, lakes, and wildlife, right at your doorstep. Surrounded by welcoming communities such as Deep River, Petawawa, and Pembroke, you’ll have access to unparalleled outdoor adventures and a fantastic work-life balance.

Please note: This is a fully on-site position based at our Chalk River Laboratory in Ontario.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

At CNL, we are committed to fostering an environment that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion. We celebrate and welcome employees, stakeholders, and partners of all backgrounds and identities. Click here to read all about it!

We are proud to uphold a workplace culture grounded in our Core Values:

• Respect
• Teamwork
• Accountability
• Safety
• Integrity
• Excellence

These values drive our employment practices and ensure meaningful career development opportunities and accommodations for all employees.

CNL is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during any phase of the hiring process, please let us know via [email protected]. All requests will be handled with confidentiality.

CNL operates on sites located on the traditional lands, waterways and ceded and unceded territories of Indigenous peoples. CNL recognizes and affirms all First Nations, Métis communities and Inuit in this land we now know as Canada. We acknowledge, respect and seek to better understand Indigenous history, rights and title on the lands where we work and develop projects. We honour and respect the importance of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and their lands, waters and territories.