Manager, S&T Project Controls

Are you looking for a role that will challenge your leadership, analytical, and strategic planning skills? Can you see yourself guiding a high‑performing project controls team that supports large, complex science and technology projects? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you—apply today! Our Science and Technologies (S&T) mission is looking for a Project Controls Manager to lead the project controls team and ensure S&T projects are delivered efficiently, responsibly, and successfully.

What will you be doing!

• Optimizing S&T Project Controls Organization:
  • Establishing management structure and resource requirements to support program objectives.
  • Allocating resources as appropriate to support programs and projects.
  • Monitoring organizational effectiveness and adjusting as needed.
• Managing S&T Project Controls Staff:
  • Supervising S&T Project Controls team, and managing organizational recruiting, performance appraisals, succession planning, and disciplinary processes.
  • Assessing organizational skill levels and coordinating training as needed to address weaknesses.
• Implementing effective and disciplined Project Controls processes:
  • Project Planning: Ensuring processes are in place to develop appropriately detailed scope, schedule, budget, and risk assessment artifacts that are aligned to corporate requirements and establishing a basis for successful execution.
  • Project Execution: Ensuring staff members monitor and report progress, assessing project performance, applying corporate and industry best practices for forecasting project outcomes.
  • Implementing disciplined scope management practices.
  • Ensuring trends and change control processes are understood and applied as appropriate.
  • Staying current with industry best practices.
  • Engaging with other members of the CNL Project Controls management team to develop effective project controls support processes.
• Communicating Program Performance:
  • Analyzing all reporting protocols, both Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and CNL, for potential improvements.
  • Editing and challenging the team’s input on the S&T Monthly Performance Reviews (variance analysis).
  • Preparing other narrative reports on project performance and supporting their presentation or presenting them to senior management.
  • Being responsible for assurance reviews of reports, briefing notes, and updates to Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and the CNL management.
  • Performing and supervising financial analysis of S&T-reported costs.
  • Coordinating program performance reviews with CNL Management.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.
  

What we are looking for:

• Education
  • Post-secondary education in engineering, business, project management or a related discipline.
  • PMP or other Project Management Institute (PMI) certification preferred.
• Experience
  • 7-10 years of progressively responsible project controls management experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, in a senior leadership capacity.
  • Demonstrated experience in all aspects of project controls and project management (i.e., initiation, planning, scheduling, estimating, budgeting, risk analysis, executing, monitoring, change control, and closeout).
  • Must have a strong background with the application and utilization of Earned Value management to plan, monitor, and control project performance.
  • Experience managing project controls staff supporting various project types within CNL program portfolios (e.g., support, construction, operations, R&D, and environmental management).
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  • Thorough knowledge of project controls functions and tools, especially schedule and use of Primavera P6, for tracking, forecasting, analyzing, and reporting of projects, and key performance indicators
  • Demonstrated supervisory and leadership experience
  • Knowledge of and experience using Primavera P6 scheduling software
  • Ability to provide guidance and coaching on project schedule development.
  • Strong understanding of planning processes, integrating scheduling, estimating, and risk analysis into the final product
  • Strong technical understanding of the critical path method scheduling and schedule management
  • Strong knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word and PowerPoint software
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively manage human performance, lead/influence and motivate teams, plan and organize work, monitor and report business performance, work with minimal direction, and make timely decisions.
  • Proven planning and organizational skills and competence leading others in delivering expected results on a diverse set of objectives, on time, and on budget.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in written form, in mediums from email to procedures and presentations - including the ability to effectively interact with management, peers, and internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong interpersonal and oral / written communication skills, judgment, initiative, strong drive, and positive attitude with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
  • Strong business and technical analysis, logic and program management skills.
  • Negotiation skills and the ability to influence people.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical, skills and the ability to evaluate costs.
  • Extensive knowledge of processes and tools required to provide project controls support to project management teams (Scheduling, budgeting, cost analysis, change control, Earned Value, risk analysis, etc.).
• 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 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.