Project Manager - OPG & Waste Management

Kinectrics is a wholly owned subsidiary of BWX Technologies focused on providing life cycle management services in the energy and utility sector. We develop innovative solutions for the global electricity and medical industries, helping empower a sustainable future. Trusted by clients worldwide, our employees provide expertise in engineering, testing, and inspection across a wide range of services. With offices worldwide and independent laboratories and testing facilities, we collaborate closely with clients to ensure utility assets perform safely, reliably, and efficiently throughout their entire life cycle.

Kinectrics takes pride in being consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the energy and utility industry, where purpose and people mean as much as innovation and growth. That’s why we choose only the best and brightest to join us. To keep pace with the expanding energy and utility sector, Kinectrics has grown from a company of 300 to over 1,000 in only the last few years - and we aren’t looking to slow down. Join our diverse, supportive workplace for a rewarding career in the electricity industry.

Visit our website to learn more: www.kinectrics.com

The Opportunity

Position: Project Manager

Employment Type: Permanent

Employment Level: Intermediate – Advanced

Location: 910 Brock Road, Pickering

Department: Design and Engineering Services

Reports to: Director, OPG and Waste Management Projects

Hours per week: 37.5

Number Required: 2

Salary Range: $120,000-$145,000 Exact compensation may vary depending on the individual experience and qualifications of each candidate. Applicants with greater or less than the minimum qualifications for this posted opportunity may be considered for alternate opportunities.

What We Offer

At Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver’s seat of your own career, setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your professional growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.

• Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
• Growth: To keep pace with Canada’s expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
• Innovation: Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
• Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
• Total Compensation: Your talent deserves to be recognized. Kinectrics offers a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America. Salary is just one component of the total rewards you will receive when working for Kinectrics. Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses), comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for our pension plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.

Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact

Kinectrics is seeking an experienced Project Manager (PM) to lead the planning and delivery of complex engineering projects in a regulated environment, across all lifecycle phases - from proposal development through project close-out. The PM will be accountable for managing scope, schedule, cost, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.

This role is part of the Design & Engineering Services (DES) team and will primarily support a range of Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and Waste Management projects. Success in this role requires strong coordination skills, disciplined project controls, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams to successful outcomes.

• Apply advanced project management expertise to ensure effective planning and execution of projects, including management of scope, schedule, cost, performance, safety, communications, resources, procurement, risk, and quality.
• Lead multidisciplinary projects with significant scope, complexity, and duration, addressing a broad range of technical and commercial issues with meaningful revenue and industry impact.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, independent judgment, and professional credibility, recognized by peers and clients as a practical, innovative, and highly capable Project Manager.
• Act as the primary interface with clients and key stakeholders to maintain strong relationships and support the growth of Kinectrics’ business capabilities.
• Collaborate with a wide range of internal teams, including Design Engineering, Nuclear Safety, Facility Staff, Procurement, and Construction, on complex and high-profile matters.
• Proactively identify, assess, and resolve complex project risks and issues.
• Provide accurate, timely project information to Kinectrics management, project teams, and clients through proposals, reports, recommendations, and presentations.
• Develop innovative technical and project delivery solutions that extend beyond established practices to meet evolving client needs.
• Manage vendor performance and support effective interdepartmental coordination to achieve project objectives.
• Ensure projects are supported by robust, integrated schedules, including critical path analysis, cost loading, Earned Value Analysis (EVA), logic ties, constraints, milestones, and coding.
• Maintain historical project data to support future cost and schedule estimating and impact analysis.
• Independently plan, develop, write, and present major project proposals.
• Establish and communicate Project Execution Plans that clearly define roles, responsibilities, and authority.
• Provide mentorship and work direction to junior staff and review complex deliverables for technical and procedural accuracy.

What You Need to Succeed

• A four-year university degree in Engineering (Electrical/I&C, Nuclear, Mechanical, Chemical, Civil Engineering, and/or) or equivalent is preferred
• Minimum of 8 years of experience independently managing multidisciplinary projects with significant scope and complexity, demonstrating strong leadership and project management capability. Candidates with less experience but strong qualifications may be considered for a developmental role.
• Working knowledge of basic generation plant design/operation related to Nuclear power plants, skid-based designs, or international power projects.
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to engage effectively in both formal and informal settings.
• Strong ability to quickly understand technical and business processes, with a demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement.
• Proven capability to independently prepare and present information to diverse stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated strengths in advanced problem solving, conflict resolution, change management, and decision making.
• High level of personal accountability and ownership.
• Experience with project accounting and scheduling tools such as SAP, Primavera P6, and Microsoft Office applications.
• Assets:
  • Project management certification (PMP, CAPM).
  • Eligibility for security clearance for nuclear site access.
  • Professional Engineer (PEO) designation or eligibility.
• Travel to multiple locations (including Greater Toronto Area, Kincardine and/or Tiverton) may be required.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete the security clearance process. The security clearance process is conducted in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and may take up to 12 months to complete.

Kinectrics Inc is strongly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and welcomes applications from all individuals. To learn more about our commitments please visit our diversity, equity and inclusion and indigenous relations pages.

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a voluntary diversity survey. The collection of self-identification data is driven by our commitment to DE&I and ensures Kinectrics' continuous review and improvement of its programs. The information that you provide is strictly confidential and your responses will only be used for statistical purposes. Your responses do not affect your candidacy in any way.

Kinectrics welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.