Are you looking for a role where you can keep projects on track and ensure everything runs smoothly? Can you see yourself monitoring progress, managing budgets, and supporting project teams with accurate data and insights? Does the idea of driving project performance through careful tracking and coordination of cost, schedule, and scope appeal to you? If you answered yes, then the Project Assistant role may be the opportunity for you—apply today

What will you be doing

- Acting as a project contact to answer questions and obtain and provide information to stakeholders within and outside the organization, ensuring timely and accurate responses.
- Acting as a liaison between departments, setting up and attending department meetings (taking minutes).
- Drafting, editing, formatting, organizing, prioritizing, assembling, filing, and/or distributing documentation and forms to avoid delays and ensuring reports and other documents are sent to customers before established deadlines.
- Providing assistance to the staff within the department by processing project correspondence.
- Querying and preparing various reports to support the department's Project Manager and project staff, including retrieving and analyzing data.
- Processing and entering data into a database or electronic filing system, including maintaining hard-copy and soft-copy filing systems.
- Ensuring project information is accurate by opening, tracking and closing work orders; monitoring expenses and revenues against budget.
- Preparing purchase requisitions and quotations.
- Creating and updating schedules with actual progress and forecasted schedule dates.
- Evaluating project progress: preparing,



executing and overseeing implementation of improvement/action plans.
- Ensuring actions are taken and reports are provided to customers and/or branch supervisors.
- Providing backup support to other project sections or other roles within the same section.
- Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What We Are Looking For

- Education/Experience
- Successful completion of secondary school (Grade 12) with 2-4 years of related experience or a college diploma in a related discipline (e.g. Project Management) and one year of experience.
- Working towards a Certified Assistant in Project Management (Certificate).

- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

- Demonstrated oral and written communication skills are essential for writing a variety of procedures, reviewing large documents, letters, and formal correspondence and for dealing with internal and external client groups.
- Knowledge of procedures, processes, policies and best practices in Project Management.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite for creating basic Word documents, formatting procedures, exporting and running reports, preparing presentations, and corresponding by e-mail.
- Knowledge of office equipment, including printers, fax machines, photocopiers, and scanners.
- Knowledge of business systems: Oracle, Management Financial Report Centre, TRAK, P6 Scheduling.




- Knowledge of project management terminology and software (Primavera P6, MS Project).
- Ability to work independently and responsibly with minimal supervision, and to set priorities to meet conflicting deadlines.
- Ability to plan, coordinate and organize projects.
- Demonstrated understanding of basic financial/accounting practices to assist with budget issues.

- 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, eight (8) hours per day for a forty (40) hour work week.
- This position is part of the USW4096 Union and is governed by the terms and conditions outlined in the USW4096 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 setting.

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 treat

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