2027 Winter Student Program - Business Administration Student Position Number 1135, 1136 Classification Term # of openings 2

Are you looking for an opportunity to gain valuable experience supporting engineering operations while developing your planning and coordination skills? Do you enjoy organizing information, improving processes, and finding innovative ways to make operations more productive? If you answered yes, this may be the opportunity for you. Our Waste Operations Engineering team is looking for a Business Administrative Student to support engineering work planning, maintain configuration control records, and help coordinate engineering work across a variety of projects.

All students applying for student positions at CNL must be returning to full-time studies upon completion of their work term. Exceptions will be made for students who require a work term to graduate.

Department: 8584 Waste Operations Engineering
Number of Positions: 1
Duration: 12 or 16 Months (January - December 2027 or April 2028)
Field of Study: Business Administration, Project Management or equivalent
Year of study: 1st year or higher

What you will be doing!

Gathering data through interviews, reviewing similar work and/or field observation of tasks to plan and document engineering activities.

Updating Excel sheets with status updates for engineering work.

Attending project and contractor meetings, updating records with information obtained from (project) meetings.

Filing documents (drawings, reports, assessments, etc.) in an electronic database.

Gaining experience working with Foxit (a PDF editing) software to help maintain records.

Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

Education

Enrolled in a University program, majoring in Business Administration, Project Management or equivalent.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities





Knowledge of Project and Operations Management Skills, such as Project planning, resource coordination, and scheduling.

Knowledge of Technology and Digital Skills, such as Microsoft Office / Microsoft 365 (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams).

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: 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 Students:

Paid Statutory Holidays (within the working term);

1 Company Floating Holiday;

Instead of cumulative vacation time, students receive an additional 4% of earnings on each pay!





Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?

Delivering clean energy for today and tomorrow

Restoring and protecting the environment

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.

We are proud to uphold a workplace culture grounded in our Core Values :

Respect

Teamwork

Accountability

Safety

Integrity

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.

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📌 2027 Winter Student Program - Business Administration Student (Ontario)
🏢 Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
📍 Ontario