Top Benefits
About the role
If you’re energized by leading people, strengthening work management processes, and ensuring safe, efficient maintenance operations, while also driving improvements in operational performance, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across CNL’s infrastructure portfolio.Apply today!
What will you be doing!
- Leading a team of ~40 professionals responsible for planning, scheduling, and executing maintenance activities across CNL’s site infrastructure.
- Overseeing the full work‑management process, including initiating, planning, scheduling, executing, and closing out corrective, preventive, predictive, emergency, and outage work.
- Ensuring compliance with Conduct of Maintenance, Conduct of Operations, audit requirements, Quality Assurance (QA) programs, technical specifications, and regulatory standards.
- Developing long‑range plans, operational goals, budgets, and performance targets aligned with business objectives.
- Building strong customer relationships to support the timely, effective delivery of maintenance services.
- Driving a strong safety culture through the implementation of safe‑work practices and Event‑Free Tools.
- Leading training, staffing, succession planning, recruitment, and development initiatives to maintain a qualified and capable team.
- Improving functional procedures, processes, systems, and tools to enhance operational efficiency.
- Managing the computerized asset management system (Avantis), including system reliability, updates, reporting, and integration.
- Allocating resources efficiently to meet customer demand and minimize idle capacity.
- Contributing to company‑wide initiatives, teams, and improvement programs. Other duties as assigned by your manager.
What we are looking for:
-Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Honours Science from a recognized university;OR
- Minimum 10 years of relevant work management, operations, or maintenance experience. -Experience
- Extensive managerial experience with strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
- Experience working with diverse stakeholder groups in a research, production, or support‑services environment
- Experience with enterprise asset management systems —Avantis strongly preferred
- Experience with engineering or design environments is an asset. -Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Ability to lead cultural and operational change.
- Deep understanding of work management processes and maintenance environments.
- Knowledge of regulations, standards, and safety requirements within nuclear or industrial environments.
- Skilled in planning, budgeting, performance monitoring, and resource management.
- Ability to build effective relationships with customers, peers, and technical/safety support groups.
- Strong judgment and decision‑making capabilities.
- Ability to motivate and develop staff, promote professionalism, and support organizational success. -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:
- Working schedule: Five (5) days per week, seven and a half (7.5) hours per day for a 37.5‑hour work week.
- The nature of the work involves tight deadlines, shifting priorities, and, at times, dealing with challenging employee or operational situations.
- Extended hours may be required to meet operational needs.
Why CNL?
Does the idea of working with a dynamic team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for aclean and secure worldexcite you? At CNL, we’re reinventing ourselves to be industry leaders—pioneering solutions to the problems that matter most.
From building the next generation ofclean nuclear and hydrogen energy technologies, to developingtargeted cancer treatments, to continuing our global leadership inenvironmental 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 supportto help you keep learning and growing
- Adefined-benefit pensionplan or adefined-contribution pension plan, depending on your employee group, to support your long‑term financial security
Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?
- Deliveringclean energyfor today and tomorrow -Restoring and protectingthe environment
- Contributing to thehealth of Canadians
If so, you’ll feel right at home at CNL!
Location: Onsite
Located in the heart of theOttawa Valley,our Chalk River site offers a beautiful natural setting withforests, lakes, and wildlife, right at your doorstep. Surrounded by welcoming communities such asDeep River, Petawawa, and Pembroke, you’ll have access to unparalleledoutdoor adventuresand a fantasticwork-life balance.
Please note:This is afully on-site position based at our Chalk River Laboratory inOntario.
Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
At CNL, we are committed to fostering an environment that promotesequity, 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 ourCore Values:
-Respect -Teamwork -Accountability -Safety -Integrity -Excellence
These values drive our employment practices and ensure meaningfulcareer development opportunities and accommodationsfor all employees.
CNL is anequal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during any phase of the hiring process, please let us know via jobs@cnl.ca. 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.
About Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
Canada's premier nuclear science and technology organization.
CNL develops peaceful and innovative applications from nuclear technology through its expertise in physics, metallurgy, chemistry, biology and engineering. Highly skilled employees enthusiastically deliver a range of nuclear services ranging from research and development, design and engineering to specialized technology, waste management and decommissioning.
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is actively working to strengthen existing relationships and forge new ones with government, with industry, and with academia.
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Top Benefits
About the role
If you’re energized by leading people, strengthening work management processes, and ensuring safe, efficient maintenance operations, while also driving improvements in operational performance, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across CNL’s infrastructure portfolio.Apply today!
What will you be doing!
- Leading a team of ~40 professionals responsible for planning, scheduling, and executing maintenance activities across CNL’s site infrastructure.
- Overseeing the full work‑management process, including initiating, planning, scheduling, executing, and closing out corrective, preventive, predictive, emergency, and outage work.
- Ensuring compliance with Conduct of Maintenance, Conduct of Operations, audit requirements, Quality Assurance (QA) programs, technical specifications, and regulatory standards.
- Developing long‑range plans, operational goals, budgets, and performance targets aligned with business objectives.
- Building strong customer relationships to support the timely, effective delivery of maintenance services.
- Driving a strong safety culture through the implementation of safe‑work practices and Event‑Free Tools.
- Leading training, staffing, succession planning, recruitment, and development initiatives to maintain a qualified and capable team.
- Improving functional procedures, processes, systems, and tools to enhance operational efficiency.
- Managing the computerized asset management system (Avantis), including system reliability, updates, reporting, and integration.
- Allocating resources efficiently to meet customer demand and minimize idle capacity.
- Contributing to company‑wide initiatives, teams, and improvement programs. Other duties as assigned by your manager.
What we are looking for:
-Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Honours Science from a recognized university;OR
- Minimum 10 years of relevant work management, operations, or maintenance experience. -Experience
- Extensive managerial experience with strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
- Experience working with diverse stakeholder groups in a research, production, or support‑services environment
- Experience with enterprise asset management systems —Avantis strongly preferred
- Experience with engineering or design environments is an asset. -Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Ability to lead cultural and operational change.
- Deep understanding of work management processes and maintenance environments.
- Knowledge of regulations, standards, and safety requirements within nuclear or industrial environments.
- Skilled in planning, budgeting, performance monitoring, and resource management.
- Ability to build effective relationships with customers, peers, and technical/safety support groups.
- Strong judgment and decision‑making capabilities.
- Ability to motivate and develop staff, promote professionalism, and support organizational success. -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:
- Working schedule: Five (5) days per week, seven and a half (7.5) hours per day for a 37.5‑hour work week.
- The nature of the work involves tight deadlines, shifting priorities, and, at times, dealing with challenging employee or operational situations.
- Extended hours may be required to meet operational needs.
Why CNL?
Does the idea of working with a dynamic team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for aclean and secure worldexcite you? At CNL, we’re reinventing ourselves to be industry leaders—pioneering solutions to the problems that matter most.
From building the next generation ofclean nuclear and hydrogen energy technologies, to developingtargeted cancer treatments, to continuing our global leadership inenvironmental 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 supportto help you keep learning and growing
- Adefined-benefit pensionplan or adefined-contribution pension plan, depending on your employee group, to support your long‑term financial security
Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?
- Deliveringclean energyfor today and tomorrow -Restoring and protectingthe environment
- Contributing to thehealth of Canadians
If so, you’ll feel right at home at CNL!
Location: Onsite
Located in the heart of theOttawa Valley,our Chalk River site offers a beautiful natural setting withforests, lakes, and wildlife, right at your doorstep. Surrounded by welcoming communities such asDeep River, Petawawa, and Pembroke, you’ll have access to unparalleledoutdoor adventuresand a fantasticwork-life balance.
Please note:This is afully on-site position based at our Chalk River Laboratory inOntario.
Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
At CNL, we are committed to fostering an environment that promotesequity, 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 ourCore Values:
-Respect -Teamwork -Accountability -Safety -Integrity -Excellence
These values drive our employment practices and ensure meaningfulcareer development opportunities and accommodationsfor all employees.
CNL is anequal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during any phase of the hiring process, please let us know via jobs@cnl.ca. 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.
About Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
Canada's premier nuclear science and technology organization.
CNL develops peaceful and innovative applications from nuclear technology through its expertise in physics, metallurgy, chemistry, biology and engineering. Highly skilled employees enthusiastically deliver a range of nuclear services ranging from research and development, design and engineering to specialized technology, waste management and decommissioning.
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is actively working to strengthen existing relationships and forge new ones with government, with industry, and with academia.