Manager, Waste Technical Services

Are you a leader who enjoys coordinating complex technical services, supporting project teams, and ensuring work is performed safely and in compliance with regulatory requirements? Can you see yourself guiding waste planning, transportation, data management, and reporting activities essential to successful decommissioning and long-term waste management outcomes? If you do, the Manager, Waste Technical Services plays a critical role in enabling safe, efficient, and compliant waste management across the Whiteshell Laboratories Restoration Project while leading a team of technical professionals. This may be the job for you! Apply today!

What you will be doing!

• Leading Waste Advisory Services, Transportation Services, and Waste Data Services by setting priorities, establishing performance expectations, and ensuring safe, compliant, and effective service delivery.
• Ensuring the availability of qualified personnel, technical expertise, systems, and resources are available to support waste planning, transportation, inventory management, data management, and project execution activities.
• Developing and supporting teams through performance management, workforce planning, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and competency development.
• Overseeing waste planning and advisory services that support waste generators, project teams, decommissioning activities, and remediation projects throughout the waste management lifecycle.
• Managing transportation services to ensure the compliant shipment, transfer, receipt, and coordination of clean, hazardous, mixed, and radioactive waste materials.
• Monitoring service delivery, workload demands, transportation performance, and operational priorities to support organizational objectives and project requirements.
• Leading Waste Data Services, including waste tracking systems, records management, inventory maintenance, documentation verification, and regulatory reporting activities.
• Maintaining accurate, complete, traceable, and defensible waste data, records, inventories, and reporting systems to support planning, forecasting, classification, and disposition decisions.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, regulations, licenses, Transportation of Dangerous Goods requirements, quality assurance standards, and organizational procedures.
• Monitoring performance, risks, audits, assessments, corrective actions, and lessons learned to support sustainable and effective program delivery.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance operational performance, service delivery, transportation effectiveness, customer support, technical capability, and data quality.
• Supporting organizational priorities, special projects, regulatory commitments, and emerging operational needs while maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.
  

What we are looking for:

• Education
  • Completion of a post-secondary diploma, degree, certificate, apprenticeship, or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience in a technical, scientific, environmental, business, operational, logistics, transportation, project management, or related discipline.
  • An equivalent combination of education, professional qualifications, industry certifications, and progressively responsible experience may be considered in lieu of formal academic credentials.
• Experience
  • Minimum ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in waste management, waste operations, transportation, project support, waste planning, decommissioning, remediation, logistics, information management, records management, or related operational and technical disciplines.
  • Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing service delivery functions within a regulated industrial, environmental, or nuclear environment.
  • Experience supporting waste generators, operational organizations, projects, or technical programs through planning, execution, transportation, storage, processing, and disposition activities.
  • Experience managing competing priorities, resource allocation, workload planning, and stakeholder expectations across multiple projects or operational areas.
  • Experience working within quality, regulatory, compliance, or management system frameworks.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  • Demonstrated leadership and people management skills, including setting expectations, reinforcing standards, coaching personnel, managing performance, and developing a high-performing organization.
  • Strong organizational and resource management skills with the ability to prioritize competing demands, allocate resources effectively, and support multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Strong understanding of process management, records management, quality assurance, and performance monitoring within a regulated operating environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify organizational risks, monitor functional health, remove execution barriers, and implement corrective actions.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
  • Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to build effective working relationships and achieve results through collaboration with multiple organizations.
  • Strong planning, coordination, forecasting, and workload management skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead continuous improvement initiatives and promote accountability, operational discipline, and learning.
  • Thorough knowledge of radioactive and non-radioactive waste management principles and practices.
  • Knowledge of waste planning processes, waste hierarchy implementation, waste classification, waste streams, waste acceptance requirements, and waste lifecycle management.
  • Knowledge of Waste Enquiry Forms (WEF), Waste Information Forms (WIF), Waste Data Forms (WDF), Waste Container Inventory Forms (WCIF), and Waste Package Movement Forms (WPMF).
  • Knowledge of Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG) requirements, shipment planning, waste transportation, and packaging requirements.
  • Knowledge of waste tracking systems including eMWaste, waste inventory management, waste records, reporting, and information management systems.
  • Knowledge of accepted knowledge methodologies, waste inventories, waste forecasting, and waste data analytics.
  • Knowledge of Radiation Protection, environmental protection, industrial safety requirements, and waste acceptance criteria applicable to waste disposition activities.
  • Knowledge of CNSC regulations, CSA standards, environmental regulations, hazardous waste regulations, and waste management industry best practices.
• Security Clearance Eligibility Required
  • Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3-5 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:

• We have a compressed work week: Four (4) days per week, ten (10) hours per day for a forty (40) hour work week, starting at 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• The role requires periodic field visits, facility walkdowns, observation of characterization activities, oversight of gamma assay operations, and engagement with field personnel.
• Activities may require the use of personal protective equipment and occasional travel throughout the site.

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 near Pinawa, Manitoba, our Whiteshell site is surrounded by pristine lakes, rivers, and forests — a true haven for outdoor enthusiasts. The area offers a peaceful, close-knit community atmosphere, ideal for those who enjoy nature, recreation, and a balanced lifestyle.

Please note: This is a fully onsite position based at our Whiteshell site, Manitoba.

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.

Whiteshell Laboratories is situated on the traditional lands of Treaties 1 and 3, and near Treaty 5. This land is the home of the Anicinabe, Ojibway Anishinaabe and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. We recognize that many other Indigenous Peoples across the region and Canada also consider this area their home.

At Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), we recognize the unique history, spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, and languages of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and we appreciate the responsibility they have as stewards of the environment. We remain firmly committed to being an active participant in Canada’s journey towards healing and reconciliation.