Are you a strategic leader who thrives on delivering complex projects with lasting impact? Do you enjoy guiding multidisciplinary teams, engaging with stakeholders, and driving secure, cost-effective decommissioning projects from planning through execution? If so, as Director, Site and Decommissioning Projects, you will play a key role in shaping project success through strong leadership, regulatory excellence, Indigenous engagement, and sound project management. This may be the job for you

What you will be doing

- Providing strategic leadership, governance, and oversight for a portfolio of site and decommissioning projects that support long-term site objectives.
- Leading the development and planning of major decommissioning projects while maintaining accountability for scope, schedule, cost, risk, and technical performance.
- Developing and implementing site end-state strategies by integrating environmental remediation, waste management, infrastructure disposition, and regulatory closure planning.
- Building strong relationships with Indigenous Nations, regulators, government agencies, and other stakeholders while representing the organization during consultations, reviews, and governance activities.
- Overseeing the transition of projects from development to execution, ensuring readiness, managing risk, and delivering successful outcomes.
- Championing a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, environmental obligations, quality standards, and organizational policies.
- Driving continuous improvement, innovation, and the application of lessons learned to enhance project performance and organizational effectiveness.
- Leading multidisciplinary teams, allocating resources effectively,



and providing strategic guidance to achieve complex project and organizational objectives.
- Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What We Are Looking For

- Education
- Engineering/scientific or Managerial education and/or background, with expertise in the nuclear field, and demonstrated program/project management, administration and/or leadership experience.

- Experience

- A minimum of ten years’ experience in program/project management, including experience leading Project Management teams and /or Project Portfolios.
- Experience in decommissioning, mine closures, site remediation, excavation and trenching is highly desired.
- Experience and technical background sufficient to enable the incumbent to contribute meaningfully to strategic planning, development, and execution of best practices in decommissioning for CNL at WL Laboratories.

- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

- Possesses a strong grounding in the technical and regulatory dimensions of nuclear and conventional operations and program planning, and a demonstrated ability to apply regulations and standards appropriately and communicate them.
- A working knowledge of the Nuclear Safety Act is an asset.
- Strong written and oral communication skills to communicate with a variety of organizations and at a variety of levels.




- Demonstrated business sense and financial knowledge to adequately plan, manage and monitor Division budgets to meet financial objectives.
- Demonstrated managerial responsibilities of major projects or large programs.
- Must have a broad understanding of the organization to ensure coordination of work through appropriate groups, programs and activities.
- Ability to coordinate time with multiple issues and projects.
- Ability to foster a team workplace by understanding and managing group dynamics.
- Good problem resolution skills.
- Strong human resources skills, with the ability to listen to and address human resource issues, and motivate staff to achieve high levels of professionalism.
- Good understanding of change management concepts.
- Interfaces nationally and internationally as required.
- Broad knowledge of nuclear decommissioning, environmental remediation, project development, waste management, regulatory frameworks, and industry best practices.
- Robust understanding of CNL governance processes, corporate objectives, project sanctioning requirements, and strategic planning principles.
- Knowledge of applicable regulatory requirements, environmental obligations, and stakeholder engagement expectations associated with large‑scale decommissioning projects.
- Demonstrated initiative and sound judgment in managing complex priorities, risks, and organizational objectives.

- 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 screen

📌 Director, Site (Pinawa)
🏢 CANADIAN NUCLEAR LABORATORIES
📍 Pinawa