Project Leader

Do you enjoy leading complex projects from planning through execution while collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders? Can you see yourself as a Project Leader, helping deliver impactful decommissioning projects that support environmental remediation and nuclear site transformation? Do you thrive in an environment where you can balance scope, schedule, cost, quality, and safety while contributing to projects that make a lasting difference? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you! Apply today!

What you will be doing!

• Assisting the Project Manager in delivering medium-risk decommissioning projects that achieve schedule, cost, quality, and safety objectives.
• Supporting the definition of project scope, priorities, and responsibilities to ensure successful project execution.
• Leading the day-to-day delivery of project objectives while providing guidance, direction, and performance feedback to project team members.
• Assembling and coordinating project teams to support planning, estimating, and execution activities.
• Planning project activities, budgets, schedules, and resource requirements in collaboration with management and internal stakeholders.
• Securing and coordinating project resources required to meet project deliverables.
• Assisting with managing project budgets, schedules, scope changes, and overall project controls.
• Motivating project team members to achieve quality, schedule, and cost objectives.
• Reviewing project performance, monitoring deliverables, and managing project risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Reporting project progress and performance to clients, management, and key stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.
  

What we are looking for:

• Education

  • Bachelor (honours) in Engineering or Science from a university of recognized standing, OR membership in an Engineering or scientific professional organization authorized by statute to establish qualification for membership in that organization, OR an alternative qualification is a certificate from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
• Experience
  • Minimum 3-5 years of project management experience.
  • Applying core project management disciplines including scope, cost, schedule, quality assurance, communications, human resources, risk, procurement, and integration management.
  • Demonstrated utilization of project management software, tools, and practices to plan, execute, monitor, and control projects.
  • Experience supporting performance management activities, identifying capability gaps, and recommending development opportunities.
  • Experience delivering projects within regulated, industrial, or decommissioning environments.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  • Demonstrating strong project leadership, organizational, planning, and coordination skills.
  • Skills in developing and executing project plans while monitoring progress against established objectives.
  • Ability to manage project risks, priorities, resources, and performance to achieve successful outcomes.
  • Skills in developing and executing project plans while monitoring progress against established objectives.
  • Ability to manage project risks, priorities, resources, and performance to achieve successful outcomes.
  • Skills in building and maintaining collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to lead and support multidisciplinary teams to achieve project deliverables.
  • Proficiency in using advanced Microsoft Office applications and project management tools effectively.
  • Knowledge of project planning, budgeting, resource allocation, procurement, contract administration, and financial processes.
  • Knowledge of regulatory requirements, nuclear codes and standards, environmental regulations, and decommissioning practices.
  • Skills in negotiation, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management.
• 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:

• This position is part of the CRPEG Union and is governed by the terms and conditions outlined in the CRPEG Collective Agreement. As a member of this bargaining unit, you’ll benefit from clear expectations around hours of work, wages, vacation, and other conditions that support a fair and consistent working environment.
• Working schedule: Four (4) days per week, ten (10) hours per day for a forty (40) 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: Fully Onsite

This role is a fully onsite role that requires the employee to primarily work at CNL’s Chalk River Laboratory site, with only occasional opportunities to work remotely, if desired by the employee. 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.